Ten Key Points of website search Design

 

Currently, users are generally impatient. They will not go down one by one based on your navigation to find what they want, unless they can easily find what they want through navigation. In this case, the search system is extremely important for a website with few content, because most users search for the content they want. When your user visits your website and cannot find what he wants, the only thing he does when he is frustrated is to close your website, then, add a poor website tag. Maybe this user will not visit your website again in the future. 1. If possible, please match the relevant content based on the user's selection so that you can accurately search for the content. When searching for the content, it is very likely that you forget the keywords of what you want, when a character is entered during a search attempt, a drop-down list appears in your search system, which displays a search prompt that matches the keyword entered above, this is an exciting feature. 2. If no search result is found, tell the user solution that the keyword entered by the user during the search is not in the content of your website. When a user error occurs, what the user wants is a solution, not just to tell him that you are wrong. 3. The search box design should be convenient. If you are afraid that users do not know how to use the search system, you need to add an index to your search box. Enter a keyword if necessary. When a user clicks your search box, these words need to disappear automatically. Otherwise, the user must clear the index you have set before the operation can be performed. When the focus is on the search box, it is best to add a conspicuous color to the edge of the search box to inform the user that you are in the search box area. When a user inputs a character, it is best to add a small clearing function to the user. This allows the user to quickly clear the content in the search box when they want to change the search content. 4. Do not provide advanced search at the beginning. Maybe you want users to find what they want more accurately and conveniently. Therefore, you can provide them with an advanced search. In fact, the current user is relatively lazy, he does not want to use your advanced search, he only needs a search box and a search button. If you have a very fine score on your content and provide it to his website content classification next to the search box, you can also choose, but be sure to note that the default category must be "all ". Users now use search frequently. In their memory, they only need to enter keywords to get the desired results. In this case, you only provide classification search, rather than full-site search, the user will complain. (In fact, most users access this website to download things, but they did not expect that the result of direct search would be information.) 5. The design of the Search Component should facilitate the user's operations on the search component, generally, there are three elements: Tag, search box, and search button. Now the Internet is no longer a novelty. Users all know that there is a search box that is the search function, so many websites no longer set tags to tell users that this is a search. Some websites directly have a search box with a magnifier icon in the box to tell users that this is the search system. In fact, this is not good. You should provide users with the mouse and the Return key. When we started to make products, we were told that designing a product should treat users as whitebait. The more dummies we design, the better, users will find it easier to use. Therefore, setting a search button is not only a hindrance to the user, but also beneficial to the user. Even if this button damages what you think is beautiful, it is worthwhile. 6. Please provide users with the result secondary filtering function when your website has a lot of content and may search for results with the same keywords under different categories, or you need to provide a filtering function for a shopping website. In general, users will perform secondary filtering on the Content During the search, especially for shopping websites and job-seeking websites. If you do not provide a filtering function, users can only find one by one. Although it is not like the eight-year war of resistance, the user experience must be very bad. However, if you provide users with a screening function, such as price range, brand, and sales volume, I think the user will thank you, after all, users can easily find what they want. (I would like to greet their product designers whenever I use the search function of Gome.) 7. Do not display too many results on one page. When your website has a large amount of information, I think the number of results searched by users must be relatively large. But do we need to show it all on one page? Or is a page showing him a bunch of pages, so that he can scroll several screens and flip pages? If you do this, I think you will get a buzz. On the search results page, it is best not to display too much. You do not want the scroll bar to be pulled to the end. Generally, the search results on two screens are displayed to the user. Give the user an expectation, so that the user is more happy to find what he wants. The user's patience is limited. The end user's choice will be abandoned for a task that takes a long time to complete. Just like why the current registration page is so simple, it is because the user's patience is limited, even if the user needs to fill in a bunch of things, it is also step-by-step. It tells the user through the guidance that you still have a few steps to complete, so that the user has an expectation, and the motivation to continue filling in will be there. On the contrary, the abandonment rate is very high. 8. If possible, please provide the spelling check tool to the user. The user will make mistakes. When the user fails to search for the keyword, the user may not be able to find what he wants. If you provide him with a spelling check tool and a correct search keyword when a user makes a mistake, I think the user will thank you. Otherwise, the user can only re-check and correct his content. 9. The search component should be clear, so that users can easily find out why users are visiting your website, most of which are because users think that your website has content they are interested in. When a user with a specific goal comes in, he usually has two methods to choose the content he needs. One is navigation, and the other is search. Generally, global navigation is at the top of the website. What about the search component? Although he does not have to be at the top of the website, he must at least make it easy for users to find it. If you put it in a hidden place, imagine if you are a user accessing this website, will you curse the designer who put the search here because of this hidden search component? 10. Highlight search keywords. When a user searches for the content of an article on your website, it is best to highlight the keywords in the search results, which makes it easier for users to browse the search results, filter out content that he deems useful for browsing. Article from: jietong http://www.2nfw.com Reprinted, please specify the original position.