Comments on: 10 usability guidelines for designing the search interface http://usabilitygeek.com/10-usability-guidelines-for-the-search-interface/ Usability & User Experience (UX) Blog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ecommerce Navigation - A Practical Advice | Usability Geek http://usabilitygeek.com/10-usability-guidelines-for-the-search-interface/#comment-1300 Ecommerce Navigation - A Practical Advice | Usability Geek Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:32:15 +0000 http://usabilitygeek.com/?p=71#comment-1300 [...] specific product are more likely to use your website’s search mechanism. I would recommend to read this article to ensure that your search interface is [...]

]]> By: Andy Parker http://usabilitygeek.com/10-usability-guidelines-for-the-search-interface/#comment-708 Andy Parker Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:06:00 +0000 http://usabilitygeek.com/?p=71#comment-708 “Its search mechanism should, by default, search your entire site”
You’ve acknowledged the caveat that if you allow search for a specific facet that it is ok.

If you have studied your search logs you should be able to find common search terms and facets.

If people only ever search around one part of the site, say news, would you be better off returning news by default and allow filters to control what they can view after that?

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