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About 15% of searches in 2011 have been performed on mobile devices, with an estimated rise to one in every four by next year. And people aren't just searching Google: restaurants, cars, electronics, and even enterprise content are all being searched by people on the move.
How should we design Lucene- and Solr-powered search experiences for phones and tablets? To be sure, very different rules apply; small screens, slow connections, limited attention, and location awareness all afford very different user interfaces between desktop and mobile devices.
This talk will examine design patterns for mobile search, including approaches to faceted navigation, autocomplete, sorting, breadcrumbs, recent history, and bookmarks, as well as how these design patterns fit together as a whole.
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Mobile Search Design Guide
1. Designing Mobile Search
by Tyler Tate, TwigKit
photos by Matthew Kenwrick, , Mikhail Koninin, Neil Oliver,
Iam Carroll, Pithawat Vachiramon, Kamshots
9. Designing Mobile Search
1 The Rise of the Cross-Channel Experience
2 Characteristics of Mobile Search
3 Design Patterns for Mobile Search
4 Implementation Strategies for Mobile Search
10. 1
THE RISE OF
CROSS-CHANNEL
EXPERIENCES
photos by William Hook, Risager, and Whatleydude
23. “87% want a similar way to access
products and services… whether
online, in the store, on their mobile
phone or using a self-service device.”
– NCR 2010 Global Consumer Research
source: http://ncrpr.ncr.com/web/rsdmkt/landingPages/documents/2010_global_consumer_resch_wp%20FINAL.pdf
25. “As consumers become more and
more demanding in the digital space,
the travel industry will need to be more
dedicated to the usability and user
experience across all of their channels
to gain customers and build loyalty.”
– Webcredible
source: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/white-papers/online-travel.shtml
27. “Practical innovations across channels
that leverage technology to deliver a
more seamless and personalized
experience will therefore be a major
competitive battleground in all retail
banking markets.”
– Ernst & Young
source: http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/A_new_era_of_customer_expectation:_global_consumer_banking_survey/$FILE/A%20new%20era%20of%20customer%20expectation_global%20consumer%20banking%20survey.pdf
29. Cross-Channel Design Principles
✴ Consistency
Users should be able to accomplish a given task
in a like manner across all channels.
✴ Optimization
Each channel should play to its strengths.
30. Cross-Channel Design Principles
✴ Consistency
Users should be able to accomplish a given task
in a like manner across all channels.
✴ Optimization
Each channel should play to its strengths.
✴ Continuity
Each channel must be aware of all the others.
31. 1 In Summary
✴ Businesses and consumers alike understand the
value of seamless cross-channel experiences.
✴ Successful cross-channel experiences are
consistent, optimal, and continuous.
✴ For many businesses, the first step towards a
cross-channel strategy is mobile.
32. 2
CHARACTERISTICS
OF MOBILE SEARCH
photos by William Hook, Risager, and Whatleydude
33. “44% of consumers use their
phone while on the move to
locate stores or restaurants.”
– NCR 2010 Global Consumer Research
34. “40% of all map-related
Google searches come
from mobile devices.”
– Marissa Mayer
35. “Mobile will be bigger than
desktop Internet in 3 years”
– Morgan Stanley
36. Computers and iPhones
and Mobile Phones, oh my!
Maryam Kamvar, Melanie Kellar, Rajan Patel, Ya Xu (2009)
http://www2009.eprints.org/81/1/p801.pdf
37. Average query length
Computer iPhone Mobile
Words 2.93 2.93 2.44
Characters 18.72 18.25 15.89
source: http://www2009.eprints.org/81/1/p801.pdf
38. Average queries per session
Computer iPhone Mobile
1.94 1.82 1.7
source: http://www2009.eprints.org/81/1/p801.pdf
39. Q: What do you use the internet on your mobile to do?
source: http://mobithinking.com/best-practices/mobile-internet-usage-attitudes-study
40. Two Diary Studies
Karen Church, Barry Smyth (2009)
Timothy Sohn, et al. (2008)
http://tinyurl.com/understandingintent
http://tinyurl.com/mobileinfoneeds
41. Information needs by topic
Topic % of Entries
Local services 24.2%
Travel & commuting 20.2%
General information 15.6%
Entertainment 12.8%
Trivia 6.4%
source: http://www2009.eprints.org/81/1/p801.pdf
42. Information needs by intent
Goal Mobile
Informational 58.3%
Geographical 31.1%
Personal information mgmt. 10.6%
source: http://www2009.eprints.org/81/1/p801.pdf
43.
44. “72% of reported informa-
tion needs were prompted
by a contextual factor.”
45.
46. Mobile Search Design Principles
✴ Answers over results
Mobile information needs are more defined than
some desktop searches and are contained in
shorter sessions.
47. Mobile Search Design Principles
✴ Answers over results
Mobile information needs are more defined than
some desktop searches and are contained in
shorter sessions.
✴ Precision over recall
Mobile users are less likely to refine their search
than desktop users. Ensuring that the best matches
are on the first page is important for mobile.
48. Mobile Search Design Principles
✴ Location awareness
When users are searching for nearby places or
services, filter the results to the user’s proximity.
49. Mobile Search Design Principles
✴ Location awareness
When users are searching for nearby places or
services, filter the results to the user’s proximity.
✴ Time awareness
When users are interested in timely information,
and filter results by time period.
50. Mobile Search Design Principles
✴ Location awareness
When users are searching for nearby places or
services, filter the results to the user’s proximity.
✴ Time awareness
When users are interested in timely information,
and filter results by time period.
✴ Social awareness
Mobile search should both incorporate social
signals as well as facilitate collaboration.
51. 2 In Summary
✴ Mobile search is increasing in popularity and
could outpace desktop search within 5 years.
✴ Users of modern smartphones enter queries of
similar length (~3 words) to desktop searchers,
but are less likely to refine.
✴ Mobile information needs are highly contextual
and disproportionately geographic.
✴ Above all, mobile search must be context-aware.
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98. 3 In Summary
✴ Devote screen real estate to content over navigation
✴ Optimise the presentation of each facet
✴ Provide paths forward at the bottom of the page
100. 1. Native Apps
Pros: Cons:
✴ Apps feel native ✴ Must be built
per platform
✴ Greater access
to OS features ✴ Expensive to
build and
✴ Works offline
maintain
✴ Marketed in
✴ App store must
app store
approve &
takes cut of sale
101. 2. Mobile Web Apps
Pros: Cons:
✴ One app for all ✴ Doesn’t feel
mobile platforms native
✴ Easier to update ✴ Lacks access to
core OS features
✴ No maintenance
needed for OS
upgrades
✴ Keep all profits
102. 3. Responsive Websites
Pros: Cons:
✴ One code base ✴ Definitely doesn’t
for all channels – feel native
desktop & mobile
✴ Not as optimized
✴ Cheap to build for each channel
and maintain
✴ No offline access
✴ Consistent
✴ Lacks access to
experience
core OS features
across channels
114. 4 In Summary
✴ Step 1: Make mobile-friendly websites.
✴ Web apps reach across platforms, while native apps
provide the richest experience but are costly.
✴ Fluid grids – such as Semantic.gs – and media
queries make responsive design easily achievable.
121. Designing Mobile Search
by Tyler Tate, TwigKit
photos by Matthew Kenwrick, , Mikhail Koninin, Neil Oliver,
Iam Carroll, Pithawat Vachiramon, Kamshots