Search interface patterns
Categorised under: Interface design, Web development
Liz Danzico explores the different ways that a search interface can be designed. She identifies four different patterns:
- standard
- surfacing
- qualifying
- passive
This article is useful, in that it helps to define a “language” for describing search interfaces, allowing interface designers to communicate more clearly.
(The design of the site itself is also very cool, and has given me a few ideas to store away for a future project.)
James Robertson is the Managing Director of 