May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 32m
English
Content preview from Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce SuccessBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
CHAPTER 15
DESIGNING MOBILE SEARCH: Turning Limitations into Opportunities
Understanding Mobile Platforms PAGE 256
Optimizing User Experience for Mobile Context of Use PAGE 260
Changing Search Paradigms PAGE 266
If you are thinking about porting your store site to iPhone-, Android-, or Windows Mobile-based devices, it would be shortsighted to treat these devices as simply computers with tiny screens. Designing a great mobile search experience requires a way of thinking quite different from that employed when designing search for Web or desktop applications. To put it simply, designing a mobile search experience requires treating limitations as opportunities. This chapter discusses some of the limitations of mobile platforms, and the opportunities they afford, and shares a few design ideas that might come in handy when embarking upon your own projects.
UNDERSTANDING MOBILE PLATFORMS
One of the challenges of mobile application design involves understanding both the capabilities and limitations of each platform. Today's mobile device has quite a bit to offer, including a high-resolution screen, multitouch controls, accelerometer, persistent data storage, smooth video transitions, push content delivery, and GPS. On the other hand, these devices present quite a few challenges to application developers, including the following:
- the difficulty of typing
- the small amount of screen real estate
- awkward touch controls
- the so-called fat-finger problem
Few sources discuss these in detail, ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.