Browse Navigation and Search Combo

[Lisa Goldberg]

As an Information Architect I almost always recommend a combined
search/browse approach. It depends on the user tasks, of course, but
if you are presenting content, it's important to provide both options
because some people prefer to search and some prefer to browse,
depending on what they are doing. The exception is very small sites
where a search is not necessary.

Lisa


On Jan 24, 2008 10:25 AM, Chamberlin,Debra <Debra.Chamberlin at gartner.com> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> I was wondering if anyone could direct me to some recent articles and
> materials or speak from experience about the usefulness of providing browse
> and search capabilities together or even speak to any pitfalls of this
> combined approach to finding content (ala http://www.amazon.com/).  I know
> that the categories for browse have to make sense for users and that
> metadata needs to be thoughtful, but wanted to find some discussion about
> offering both.
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> We're considering this approach for our intranet.
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> Thanks,
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> Debbie
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