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Search Patterns is a playful guide to the practical concerns of search interface design. It contains a bonanza of screenshots and illustrations that capture the best of today’s design practices and presents a fresh perspective on the broader role of search and discovery.
-- Marti Hearst, Professor, UC Berkeley and Author, Search User Interfaces
(Marti Hearst )Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen.
-- Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google
(Irene Au )I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways around of looking at the world.
-- Dan Roam, Author, The Back of the Napkin
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I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways around of looking at the world.
-- Dan Roam, Author, "The Back of the Napkin"
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A must-read for everyone collaborating on a search application
13 April 2010
Format:Paperback
"There's no shortage of problems with search today," says Peter Morville at the end of Search Patterns, his most recent book. Throughout the book, Morville chronicles the challenges of search and effectively communicates the best practices of building usable search experiences. The book more than adequately accomplishes it's stated goal: to foster greater cross-disciplinary collaboration by increasing search literacy.
In the preface Morville sets out to tear down the walls between disciplines, and at this he succeeds. From user psychology to technical considerations to the specific components of the user interface, Search Patterns has something for everyone involved in implementing search.
The first two chapters lay the groundwork for the rest of the book, discussing both why people search and the individual components that make up search. The book is in full swing by chapter three where Morville discusses user behavior, elements of interaction, and -- my personal favourite -- the principles of design.
In talking about design principles, Morville describes search both as a conversation and a jazz-like improvisation. He urges the architect to make search an easy, simple process to initiate, followed by a progressively more sophisticated toolkit that enables users to iteratively refine their query. He argues for a no-suprises approach to the user interface in which valuable options are highly visible and elements of interaction are easily predictable. Many of the principles are applicable to a much broader context than search alone, but that only stregthens their merit.
The real heart of the book is chapter four, which looks at 10 design patterns over 50 pages. It considers the obvious patterns -- autocomplete, faceted navigation, advanced search -- as well as more disparate groupings like federated search and personalization. The design patterns are complimented by a wealth of thought-provoking examples throughout the book, with an especially high concentration of desktop, mobile, and even kiosk visuals in chapter five.
Search Patterns is a must-read for everyone collaborating on a search application. It will give your team of designers, engineers, and business stakeholders a common vocabularly and greater awareness of the many sides of search.
Morville ends the book -- as I will end this review -- by urging the reader to get to work on making search better: "For every unsolved problem," he says, "there are countless instances in which we know the solution, but nobody has bothered to implement it. Discipline and attention to detail would go a long way toward improving the world of search."
You should get started by reading this book.
In the preface Morville sets out to tear down the walls between disciplines, and at this he succeeds. From user psychology to technical considerations to the specific components of the user interface, Search Patterns has something for everyone involved in implementing search.
The first two chapters lay the groundwork for the rest of the book, discussing both why people search and the individual components that make up search. The book is in full swing by chapter three where Morville discusses user behavior, elements of interaction, and -- my personal favourite -- the principles of design.
In talking about design principles, Morville describes search both as a conversation and a jazz-like improvisation. He urges the architect to make search an easy, simple process to initiate, followed by a progressively more sophisticated toolkit that enables users to iteratively refine their query. He argues for a no-suprises approach to the user interface in which valuable options are highly visible and elements of interaction are easily predictable. Many of the principles are applicable to a much broader context than search alone, but that only stregthens their merit.
The real heart of the book is chapter four, which looks at 10 design patterns over 50 pages. It considers the obvious patterns -- autocomplete, faceted navigation, advanced search -- as well as more disparate groupings like federated search and personalization. The design patterns are complimented by a wealth of thought-provoking examples throughout the book, with an especially high concentration of desktop, mobile, and even kiosk visuals in chapter five.
Search Patterns is a must-read for everyone collaborating on a search application. It will give your team of designers, engineers, and business stakeholders a common vocabularly and greater awareness of the many sides of search.
Morville ends the book -- as I will end this review -- by urging the reader to get to work on making search better: "For every unsolved problem," he says, "there are countless instances in which we know the solution, but nobody has bothered to implement it. Discipline and attention to detail would go a long way toward improving the world of search."
You should get started by reading this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
At least 50% waffle
9 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
This book definitely has some interesting analysis in it - especially chapter 4 (Design Patterns), which provides a really great breakdown of different ways in which a search interface is used, and how a basic search box can be enhanced. But for someone with a technical and practical bent, focused on design and implementation, I found much of the book close to unreadable - long waffling treatises that say the obvious, and keep saying it in several different ways. If you look inside the book and click 'Surprise Me!' a few times, you'll get the idea from one of the pages that comes up.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Design inspirations - thinking outside the search box
20 Jan 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Google may have set the standards for search, but there is much more than thinking inside the search box. Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender encourage us to think outside the box and explore all aspects of digital search: definition and significance, participants and context, user experience and psychology, design patterns, discovery engines, and future scenarios.
The outcome is an incredibly compact and entertaining design guide focusing primarily on web and mobile search, but lacking any reference to web analytics. A variety of concepts and patterns are illustrated using fascinating examples and well-thought-out visualizations. I appreciate the visualizations as they can be used as a reference, as summaries, or as refreshers. I completely agree with both authors, that we should be very passionate about search. "It's far more interesting and important than most people realize."
I can highly recommend this book, which is available both electronically and in print, to anyone who wants to better understand search and be more innovative when designing it. It is astonishing how much inspiration you can find when you start thinking outside the search box...
The outcome is an incredibly compact and entertaining design guide focusing primarily on web and mobile search, but lacking any reference to web analytics. A variety of concepts and patterns are illustrated using fascinating examples and well-thought-out visualizations. I appreciate the visualizations as they can be used as a reference, as summaries, or as refreshers. I completely agree with both authors, that we should be very passionate about search. "It's far more interesting and important than most people realize."
I can highly recommend this book, which is available both electronically and in print, to anyone who wants to better understand search and be more innovative when designing it. It is astonishing how much inspiration you can find when you start thinking outside the search box...
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