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As detailed in Chap. 1, system implementations for dynamic taxonomies and faceted search allow a wide range of query possibilities on the data. Only when these are made accessible by appropriate user interfaces, the resulting applications can support a variety of search, browsing and analysis tasks.
User interface design in this area is confronted with specific challenges. This chapter presents an overview of both established and novel principles and solutions. Based on a definition of core principles (see Sect. 4.1) and challenges (see Sect. 4.2), we define a taxonomy of navigation modes observed in existing applications (see Sect. 4.3). On that basis, design patterns for enabling these navigation modes in user interfaces (see Sect. 4.4) as well as extensions and related approaches (see Sect. 4.5) are discussed. The chapter closes with an approach to personalizing faceted search (see Sect. 4.6).
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs, 1955–
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Stefaner, M., Ferré, S., Perugini, S., Koren, J., Zhang, Y. (2009). User Interface Design. In: Sacco, G., Tzitzikas, Y. (eds) Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02359-0_4
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