[Sigia-l] basic search and advance search

[Adrian Howard]

On 9 Oct 2007, at 08:58, Eric Scheid wrote:

> On 9/10/07 12:34 PM, "Juan Ruiz" <Juan.Ruiz at hyro.com> wrote:
>
>> Is advance search a feature necessary on all websites? When do you  
>> draw
>> the line to include or not the advance search form on a site?
>
> For a recent project we ditched the "advanced search" link in the  
> main nav
> ... however, when a user performs a simple search we then present  
> the search
> result with a "refine your search" interface (which is just another  
> way of
> saying "advanced search").
[snip]

I Have That Pattern.

I first did it when we took a stupidly complex advanced search and  
turned it into an incremental refinement process. In a blindingly  
flash of the obvious we then saw that the "normal" search was just  
the first step in that process. Users loved it.

Used the same technique a few times since to good effect.

Adrian