Hi Lukas,
Displaying 2 numbers is an interesting variant. Not for a casual consumer
site, but actually pretty cool for a site appealing to engineers.
On the formatting front though, the (nn/mm) is a bit visually "dense".
Might I suggest some tweaks:
1: Drop the parenthesis, in favor of some other visual separation, but
cutting down on the number of characters
2: Change the "/" to "(space) of (space)"
3: Instead of making the numbers more bold than the text, perhaps go the
opposite way, making them non-bold, perhaps smaller or ittallics
So instead of:
Some value *(50/60)*
You'd have:
Some value *- 50 of 60*
Something like that.... I'm no artist.
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <m...@pooteeweet.org>wrote:
>
> On 27.05.2010, at 23:32, Geert-Jan Brits wrote:
>
> > Something like sliders perhaps?
> > Of course only numerical ranges can be put into sliders. (or a concept
> that
> > may be logically presented as some sort of ordening, such as "bad, hmm,
> > good, great"
> >
> > Use Solr's Statscomponent to show the min and max values
> >
> > Have a look at tripadvisor.com for good uses/implementation of sliders
> > (price, and reviewscore are presented as sliders)
> > my 2c: try to make the possible input values discrete (like at
> tripadvisor)
> > which gives a better user experience and limits the potential nr of
> queries
> > (cache-wise advantage)
>
>
> yeah i have been pondering something similar. but i now realized that this
> way the user doesnt get an overview of the distribution without actually
> applying the filter. that being said, it would be nice to display 3 numbers
> with the silders, the count of items that were filtered out on the lower and
> upper boundaries as well as the number of items still left (*).
>
> aside from this i just put a little tweak to my facetting online:
> http://search.un-informed.org/search?q=malaria&tm=any&s=Search
>
> if you deselect any of the checkboxes, it updates the counts. however i
> display both the count without and with those additional checkbox filters
> applied (actually i only display two numbers of they are not the same):
> http://screencast.com/t/MWUzYWZkY2Yt
>
> regards,
> Lukas Kahwe Smith
> m...@pooteeweet.org
>
> (*) if anyone has a slider that can do the above i would love to integrate
> that and replace the adoption year checkboxes with that
