Usability: Picking Most Usable Searchbox.

Submitted by NFFC on Wed, 2004-10-13 10:10

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Thread Title:
Usability: Picking Most Usable Searchbox.

Thread Url:
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=16613

Thread Description:

Interesting, to me at least.

"For example, if the user want's to look for the keyword 'shoes', there will be three ways to search: Find all products that have the keyword shoes, find all suppliers that make shoes or find any open auctions that are offering shoes.

I also have to factor in that there might be more selectors in the future. Not many but 1 more, maybe 2.
So now my question is, what do you think would be most usable for my site visitors to select a search method? Tabs, Radio Buttons, a dropdown list?"

Examples of the various designs proposed and some good discussion.

Comments

If Kim Krause is in there....

Submitted by twadmin on Wed, 2004-10-13 11:36.

then ill be reading! - i have to do a search for this site pretty soon but ill bookmark it for when i get back.. (well, remember it actually, no good bookmarking it here eh?)

thanks NFFC, nice find!

Dropdown aint that good

Submitted by ukgimp on Wed, 2004-10-13 14:08.

I remember reading a sort of experiment by DigitalGhost. He said that when they introduced dropdowns the people who progressed passed that fell off the scale.

That stuck with me. I know he looked at usability in a big way.