Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what
we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. It's a
wicked problem of terrific consequence and a radically multidisciplinary,
creative challenge. In this talk, Peter Morville will define a pattern language
for search that embraces user psychology and behavior, cross-channel
information architecture, multisensory interaction, and emerging technology.
We'll identify design principles that apply across the categories of web,
e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and realtime. And, we'll
explore how futures methods and user experience deliverables can help us to
create better search interfaces and applications today, and invent the
unthinkable discovery tools of tomorrow.
Topics:
* A flexible model for describing search patterns that embraces multiple
contexts and platforms including enterprise, e-commerce, web, desktop, mobile,
and realtime.
* An overview of research focused on user psychology, behavior, and experience
with respect to search, navigation, retrieval, findability, and keeping found
things found.
* Designing next-generation search interfaces and applications that combine
best practices in tagging and taxonomies with search analytics, guided
navigation, thesauri, clustering algorithms, linguistic toolsets, and rich
result interfaces.
* Evaluating the multi-channel challenges and real-world opportunities for
search and discovery presented by augmented reality and the emerging Internet
of objects.
Benefits:
* Explore the concepts, methods, deliverables, patterns, and tools needed to
practice search-centered information architecture and experience design
successfully.
* Learn how multi-touch, voice, gestural interaction, pattern recognition, and
other multisensory means of input and output are reshaping what's possible.
* Be inspired by best-in-class examples drawn from corporate, e-commerce,
education, and government web sites, search interfaces, and mobile
applications.
Audience:
* This session is appropriate for attendees of all backgrounds and levels of
experience.
comments
My recent Johnny Holland interview about Search Patterns...
johnnyholland.org/2010/03/29/search-patterns-an-interview-with-peter-morville/