Users are starting to expect a whole lot more from search interfaces - from Google Instant (their now ubiquitous autocomplete feature), to faceted navigation, spatial search, and much more. It’s increasingly becoming the responsibility of Information Architects and User Experience Designers to design and optimise search experiences using these new technologies and interfaces.
Glenn Jones: What a UX Designer needs to know about Solr
Solr is a popular open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Glenn Jones’s talk will introduce Solr from a User Experience Designer’s point of view. It will take a look at how Solr’s faceted search can be used to design powerful language-based features: from user-driven tagging to autocompletion. Also, the talk will try to answer the question of what kind of User Interfaces Solr tends to lend itself to. This is a fairly introductory talk aimed at a non-technical audience.
Tony Russell-Rose: User Experience Design at Endeca
Endeca was an early pioneer of faceted navigation systems, and made its name selling enterprise search and business intelligence applications. You’ve probably used Endeca’s search UIs on sites like dabs.com, hmv.com and autotrader.co.uk.
Tony Russell-Rose is User Experience Manager & Principal Consultant at Endeca. His talk relates to the Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library and the Dimensions of Search Experience.