[Sigia-l] Relationship between Search and Browse

[Richard_Dalton at vanguard.com]

Listera wrote:
> "Richard_Dalton at vanguard.com" wrote:
>
> > Example: A user is decorating a room and wants to color-coordinate 
with
> > his/her red carpet; Solution: Order the products by color.

> Interesting. 
> How exactly do you "order by color"?
> Alphabetically? Is it chartreuse [C] or green [G] or cyan [C] or blue 
[B]?
> Colors arranged by saturation? Hue? Value? Chromaticity ? By a 
perceptually
> uniform color space? Symmetrically by hue? How do you tilt the color 
space
> presented? Do you want to "color-coordinate" by, say, 'clashing' or
> 'complimentary' colors? Do you want to account for the nuances of color
> naming patterns by gender, ethnicity, education, nationality, etc?
>
> A good example, indeed, to prove the point that there are different ways 
to
> skin a cat.

I should have said "organize or group by color" instead of "order", 
however, the above paragraph is a great example of over-engineering. The 
user task was to color-coordinate - how many people decorating a room 
consider the attributes above? They just want the red things together, the 
blue things together, etc .... (and yes, I realize that this might be an 
over-simplification - but its closer to the truth than organizing things 
by Hue, Value, Chromaticity, etc)

 - Richard Dalton