Search Design
System Migration and Enterprise Search Design Powered by Enterprise Taxonomy, Automated Tagging, and Content Governance
The Challenge Staff at a US-based investment and insurance company were spending extraneous amounts of time finding information through the organization’s search experience. Users had been instructed to interact with search in specific ways (which filters to use, how to … Continue reading »
Using Wireframes to Define and Visualize Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
As a complement to our enterprise search engagements with clients, we often end up exploring how the implementation of a knowledge graph can establish the foundation for more advanced KM and data efforts, such as smart search or AI capabilities … Continue reading »
What is Information Scent, and How do I Design for It?
Information Foraging When developing search for a website or intranet, getting to know your end-users and their behavioral tendencies is critical in order to improve the relevancy of search results. Being able to predict how users interact with the site … Continue reading »
Beyond Findability
For most of my career, one of my favorite “made up” words has been findability. It is the perfect term to explain the “why” of taxonomy, search, and, in many cases, Knowledge Management in general. When I talk findability, I … Continue reading »
Fixing Enterprise Search, Part 2 of 2
In the final part of his two-part series on fixing enterprise search, Joe Hilger discusses the concept of action-oriented search, why it’s important, and how changing your mindset from one of “using search to find” to one of “using search … Continue reading »
Fixing Enterprise Search, Part 1 of 2
In the first part of his two-part series on fixing enterprise search, Joe Hilger discusses some common misconceptions around “fixing” search for organizations. He describes the importance of looking beyond search engine tools to truly understand an organization’s search requirements and … Continue reading »
Search UX Best Practices Part 2: Search Results
Search results pages are lists of content which are relevant to the keyword search entered by your users. The concept is deceptively simple, but the design of your search results page plays a vital role in the overall experience users … Continue reading »
Search UX Best Practices Part 1: User Input
Search impacts everything from the way we find a website (Google), to how we find content on a site. But search also puts a heavier burden on the user than most website interactions. Users must locate your search form, enter … Continue reading »