1. Faceted Search:
Designing Your Content,
Navigation and User Interface
Pete Bell
Co-Founder
Daniel Tunkelang
Chief Scientist
UIE Virtual Seminar
Thursday, August 20, 2009
1:30pm ET

2. The rise of facets
“Put simply, if you’re an
information architect, we
see facets in your future.”
-Peter Morville and Louis
Rosenfeld

5. Faceted search as a concierge experience

6. Categorizing structured and unstructured content
Winery Subject
Flavor Sentiment
Year Entities
Grape Date
Region Industry

7. Folksonomy: can crowds categorize:?
The opportunity
 Wisdom of the crowds
 Cover the “long tail”
 Fresher content
The challenge
 Another messy silo?
 Authority?

8. The yin & yang of categorization & navigation

9. Design patterns for faceted search

10. Faceted search machinery

11. Faceted authority: Who do you trust?
Depending on the task at hand,
• I trust Olaf for finance content but not engineering
•Phil is often right, but I’ll need to confirm it
•I don’t trust Panhead to be accurate, but he might lead me to a
good source

12. 2 implementations of faceted authority
 Records have authority facets>  Facets 301: Facets have authority
navigate records by authority facets> navigate by authority
facets facet of facets

13. Faceted Search:
Designing Your Content,
Navigation and User Interface
Pete Bell
Co-Founder
Daniel Tunkelang
Chief Scientist
UIE Virtual Seminar
Thursday, August 20, 2009
1:30pm ET