Discuss: Design Patterns: Faceted Navigation
by Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender
- Editorial Comments
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Great article Peter. I usually urge people i know who have the kind of websites which yield a lot of product information to use faceted type of navigation.
I mean you can’t imagine how helpful and effective can a really intuitive navigation when it satisfies every need of the user :)
posted at 04:13 pm on April 20, 2010 by Tasarım
3 Helpful
Nice article. I actually like faceted navigations on a website that i often wander in. They really help you find things much more easily :)
posted at 04:57 pm on April 20, 2010 by Anksiyete
4 More about Faceted Search
There is a book called “Dynamic Taxonomies”, which features one chapter about User Interface Design of Faceted Search Interfaces. It is partly written by Moritz Stefaner, who also made a PDF of the chapter available: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/downloads/papers/DynTax_Ch_UI.pdf
posted at 05:12 am on April 21, 2010 by valderama
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Yeah if a website contains lots of configurable data, has many variables or catgeory based system with many sub ordiantes then a faceted navigation could be the way forward.
Faceted navigation seems to break down large areas of information into smaller easier pieces that makes the information easy to digest.
posted at 12:54 pm on April 21, 2010 by SprikeWebDesign
6 Brilliant
I’ve been trying to figure out the best way of making a useful search for a group of academic web sites (which have tons of information). This seems like an obvious solution (though I hadn’t considered it at all). Thank you for the insight!
posted at 08:31 pm on April 21, 2010 by natewalton
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very nice article – can’t help liking faceted navigations the best with some websites. thanks, cleawalford
posted at 09:33 pm on April 23, 2010 by Clea Walford
8 Illustrations
You can find Figure 4-28 and all the other illustrations here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/4274338864/in/set-72157623208685504/
posted at 11:02 am on April 24, 2010 by Peter Morville
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The dreaded figure 4-28 was initially omitted because of an error in production. The missing image, along with its caption, now appears in its correct location in the article. Thanks, readers!
posted at 12:56 pm on April 27, 2010 by Jeffrey Zeldman
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1 Missing images
Interesting article although I don’t think the term “faceted navigation” is very descriptive. Gems have facets, searches don’t.
But where’s fig. 4-28?
posted at 12:33 pm on April 20, 2010 by Charlie Clark