Beyond the Search Engine

Auteur

Liese Zahabi is a graphic/interaction designer and Associate Professor of Design at the University of New Hampshire, USA. Her academic research focuses on search as a cognitive and cultural process, and how the design of interfaces can change the experience of digital search tasks.

Texte du rabat

Focusing on the user experience of online search, this book explores the complex design at play and the ways social media platforms, websites, and other online interfaces have been created to provide information.

Contenu

1. A brief history of the design of search online 2. The rise of task- and domain-specific search 3. How social media has influenced online search 4. The need for curation interfaces 5. Ubiquitous search and the Internet of Things 6. Conclusions