Re: What's Better: Dumbed Down or Loaded with Functionality?

From: Jeremy Dunck <jdunck_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:48:48 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On 6/9/06, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Jeremy Dunck wrote:
>
> > What if the UI supported the power-user but summarized things just
> > outside.  If a subject search failed, something like "there are 400
> > books with foo in the description" might help.
> >
> What's a failure? Zero hits? One or two hits?
> 'fraid it's more difficult.

So, say the user does a search that's somewhat narrow.  It returns
results with some relevance.  It also does a broader search and, if
that results in more relevant results, includes a note saying so, not
implying their original search was wrong, but giving them more
information to decide whether they should search in a different
direction.
Received on Fri Jun 09 2006 - 10:51:16 EDT