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

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

Faceted search as a concierge experience

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

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

The yin & yang of categorization & navigation

Design patterns for faceted search

Faceted search machinery

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

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

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