what a ux designer needs to know about solr

Glenn JonesUX Brighton – Brighton, UK08 February 2011

What a UX Designer needs to know about Solr

ease, speed and relevancy

Part of the open source Apache Lucene project

Boolean logicdtLastModified > 2011/01/01

Term frequency the more times a search term appears in a document

Inverse document frequency matches on rarer terms count more than matches on

common terms

Design of the London Tube Map

The first diagrammatic map of the London Underground was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. Beck was an Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another. This talk considers the Becks work in light of modern wayfinding theory.

design, wayfinding, maps

8 February 2011

Brighton

Design of the London Tube Map

The first diagrammatic map of the London Underground was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. Beck was an Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another. This talk considers the Becks work in light of modern wayfinding theory.

design, wayfinding, maps

8 February 2011

Brighton

design london

Design of the London Tube Map

The first diagrammatic map of the London Underground was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. Beck was an Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another. This talk considers the Becks work in light of modern wayfinding theory.

design, wayfinding, maps8 February 2011

Brighton

wayfinding brighton

Design of the London Tube Map

The first diagrammatic map of the London Underground was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. Beck was an Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another. This talk considers the Becks work in light of modern wayfinding theory.

design, wayfinding, maps

8 February 2011

Brighton

2.0

2.0

1.5

0.5

Weighted field search (dismax)

2.0

Weighting fields as you query

http://example.com/select?

defType=dismax&qf=title^2.0 description^1.5&

q=design london

design|1.2 wayfinding|2.2 maps|1.8

Weighted tags (payloads)

Mix and match

Design of the London Tube Map

The first diagrammatic map of the London Underground was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. Beck was an Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another. This talk considers the Becks work in light of modern wayfinding theory.

design, wayfinding, maps

8 February 2011

Brighton

2.0

1.5

0.5

Weighted free text, boolean and range

date:[Now+30DAY To NOW]

location:brighton

1.0953647 = (MATCH) sum of: 0.85416585 = weight(text:"account manag" in 40050), product of: 0.9704757 = queryWeight(text:"account manag"), product of: 4.023551 = idf(text: account=21218 manag=37288) 0.24119881 = queryNorm 0.88015175 = fieldWeight(text:"account manag" in 40050), product of: 4.0 = tf(phraseFreq=16.0) 4.023551 = idf(text: account=21218 manag=37288) 0.0546875 = fieldNorm(field=text, doc=40050) 0.24119881 = (MATCH) ConstantScoreQuery(posted:[1284146733990 TO 1297106733990]), product of: 1.0 = boost 0.24119881 = queryNorm

Rounding the circle (score calculations)

Auto Complete (term search)

Search item groupings

Navigational pivots

world/north-koreaworld/south-koreaworld/nuclear-weaponsworld/worldprofile/justinmccurrytone/newstype/article

Have only shown you a small window on Solr

Search relevancy is part of your job. It forms part of the information architecture of a site and can massively effect

the user experience

Be brave take on the challenge

Search is a lot more than adding a box

Findability

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Copyright Glenn Jones 2011www.glennjones.net

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