Faceted Search: Designing Your Content, Navigation and User InterfacePete BellCo-Founder

Daniel TunkelangChief Scientist

UIE Virtual SeminarThursday, August 20, 20091:30pm ET

The rise of facets

“Put simply, if you’re an information architect, we see facets in your future.”-Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld

Faceted search as a concierge experience

Winery

Flavor

Year

Grape

Region

Subject

Sentiment

Entities

Date

Industry

Categorizing structured and unstructured content

Folksonomy: can crowds categorize:?

The opportunity Wisdom of the crowds Cover the “long tail” Fresher content

The challenge Another messy silo? Authority?

The yin & yang of categorization & navigation

Design patterns for faceted search

Faceted search machinery

Faceted authority: Who do you trust?

Depending on the task at hand,• I trust Olaf for finance content but not engineering•Phil is often right, but I’ll need to confirm it•I don’t trust Panhead to be accurate, but he might lead me to a good source

2 implementations of faceted authority

Records have authority facets> navigate records by authority facets

Facets 301: Facets have authority facets> navigate by authority facet of facets

Faceted Search: Designing Your Content, Navigation and User InterfacePete BellCo-Founder

Daniel TunkelangChief Scientist

UIE Virtual SeminarThursday, August 20, 20091:30pm ET