Thanks Geert, Trip Advisor was interesting, I also see another "sliders" site was sent around.
But I don't think all their Facets are "binding". For example, to test no-results, I set it to 4 start hotels in SF with a max of $50 / night - obviously not reasonable. But it showed some hotels. At first I thought maybe some cool deals, but then noticed that plenty of them were way under four stars. I could rationalize this by saying that the slider values represent other query parameters, to be weighted in relevancy calculations along with the search terms, but generally not what folks expect. -- Mark Bennett / New Idea Engineering, Inc. / mbenn...@ideaeng.com Direct: 408-733-0387 / Main: 866-IDEA-ENG / Cell: 408-829-6513 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Geert-Jan Brits <gbr...@gmail.com> 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) > > Cheers, > Geert-Jan > > 2010/5/27 Mark Bennett <mbenn...@ideaeng.com> > > > I'm a big fan of plain old text facets (or tags), displayed in some > logical > > order, perhaps with a bit of indenting to help convey context. But as you > > may have noticed, I don't rule the world. :-) > > > > Suppose you took the opposite approach, rending facets in non-traditional > > ways, that were still functional, and not ugly. > > > > Are there any pubic sites that come to mind that are displaying facets, > > tags, clusters, taxonomies or other navigators in really innovative ways? > > And what you liked / didn't like? > > > > Right now I'm just looking for examples of what's been tried. I suppose > > even bad examples might be educational. > > > > My future ideal wish list: > > * Stays out of the way (of casual users) > > * Looks "clean" and "cool" (to the power users) > > I'm thinking for example a light gray chevron ">>" that casual users > > don't notice, > > but when you click on it, cool things come up? > > * Probably that does not require Flash or SilverLight (just to avoid the > > whole platform wars) > > I guess that means Ajax or HTML5 > > * And since I'm doing pie in the sky, can be made to look good on > desktops > > and mobile > > > > Some examples to get the ball rolling: > > > > StackOverflow, Flickr and YouTube, Clusty(now Yippy) are all nice, but a > > bit > > pedestrian for my mission today. > > (grokker was cool too) > > > > Lucid has done a nice job with Facets and Solr: > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/ > > And although I really like it, it's not a flashy enough specimen for what > > I'm hunting today. > > (and they should thread the actual results list) > > > > I did some mockups of "2.0 style" search navigators a couple years back: > > > > > http://www.ideaeng.com/tabId/98/itemId/115/Search-20-in-the-Enterprise-Moving-Beyond-Singl.aspx > > Though these were intentionally NOT derived from specific web sites. > > > > Digg has done some cool stuff, for example: > > http://labs.digg.com/365/ > > http://labs.digg.com/arc/ > > http://labs.digg.com/stack/ > > But for what I'm after, these are a bit too far off of the "searching for > > something in particular" track. > > > > Google Image Swirl and Similar Images are interesting, but for images. > > Lots of other cool stuff at labs.google.com > > > > Amazon, NewEgg, etc are all fine, but again text based. > > > > TouchGraph has some cool stuff, though very non-linear (many others on > this > > theme) > > http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html > > http://www.touchgraph.com/navigator.html > > > > > > Cool articles on the subject: (some examples now offline) > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2005/cmsc838s/viz4all/viz4all_a.html > > > > > > > > -- > > Mark Bennett / New Idea Engineering, Inc. / mbenn...@ideaeng.com > > Direct: 408-733-0387 / Main: 866-IDEA-ENG / Cell: 408-829-6513 > > >
