Morville, Peter,

Search patterns / On cover: Design for discovery Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender ; [editor, Simon St. Laurent ; illustrators, Jeff Calender and Nellie McKesson]. - First edition. - x, 180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

"This is a book about the design of user interfaces for search and discovery"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pattern recognition -- The anatomy of a search -- Behavior -- Design patterns -- Engines of discovery -- Tangible futures.

This book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and realtime search and discovery. The authors cover topics such as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and augmented reality together with a practical guide to help us make search better today--Derived from p. [4] of cover.

9780596802271 0596802277

2010526151

GBA996738

015385298 Uk


Database design.
Database searching.
User interfaces (Computer systems)

QA76.9.D26 / M675 2010

005.437 MO.S 2010 G.C