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Linkedin’s Quick Search Box
June 23, 2011 in information architecture, inspiration, reference, Search, user experience | Tags: LinkedIn Serach Pattern UI IA Auto-Complete Quick Search | Leave a comment
On content heavy websites, the most frequently used design element is the search box.
Widely considered to be best in class, LinkedIn’s Search Box has always managed to push the limits of their Quick Search functionality just enough to not blur the line between their Advanced Search option.
Linkedin’s Quick Search Box has included filters for:
* People
* Updates
* Jobs
* Companies
* Answers
* Inbox
* Groups
Recently, I just noticed the following functionality:
* Turn on/off suggestions (aka Auto Complete)
Late in 2010, LinkedIn also introduced a visual grouping of their auto results that includes the categories of the basic filters along with the introduction of:
* Skills (pulling from the users profiles)
As well as:
* Features (being LinkedIn’s site features)
* Polls (if no Poll exists, it prompts you to create one)
LinkedIn’s Learning Center needs to be updated, but here’s a link to the Search functionality section.
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #46
November 21, 2010 in applications, book reviews, branding, business model, Color, conference, Data Visualization, definition, developer, events, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, interactive, interview, iphone, jobs, marketing, presentation, professionals, recent grads, reference, rgd ontario, social media, SpecWork, students, trends, type, typography, user experience, visual communication | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- Relaunching NO!SPEC with 28 Talking Points
- The History of Visual Communication
- Running a successful web design business
- U&lc lives
- “I am a type snob!”…(and proud of it).
- Johanna Lenander
- Virgin Galactic
- Pentagram’s Paula Scher on drawing with type
- The 7 Biggest Challenges in Merging Design and Business
- Adobe MAX 2010: Interaction Design for Graphic Designers
- New Work: No.17 Submission
User Experience:
- Google TV, Usability Not Included
- Wozniak: Android Will Dominate iOS [Updated]
- Different Approaches to Mobile App Design
- The Kinect effect: how Harmonix mastered Dance Central’s menus
- Google Launches Interactive Book to Teach Everyone About the Web
- Innovation Calls For I-Shaped People
- iPad Owners, Get Ready for TweetMag [Preview Video]
- The difference between searching and finding
- Reactions to being listed on Darkpatterns.org
- More mobile usability testing sleds…
Other Tangents:
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #16
April 25, 2010 in applications, branding, business model, Color, Data Visualization, definition, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, interactive, iphone, presentation, reference, social media, trends, user experience | Tags: Adobe, Analytic.ly, App, BBC, Behaviour, Brand, branding, Cartography, CR, Creative, CS5, CSS, Design, Diagrams, Facebook, Font, Freelance, Google, Government, graphic design, History, IBM, Infographic, Information, Interface, iphone, Logarithms, Logs, maps, Microsoft Office, Milton Glaser, Mobile Apps, Password, Pricing, Puma, Radio 1Xtra, Shoe Box, Software, Tel Aviv, Timeline, twitter, Typeface, Village Voice, Visualization, Web Apps, Web Design, Websites | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- BBC to rebrand Radio 1Xtra
- The new CS5 branding
- Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes
- Web Design across Cultures – 9 Advices
- Secrets from a search marketing manager
- The Village Voice covers of Ivylise Simones
- Tel Aviv-Yafo by Michelle Haft
- Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
- Puma’s new shoe box – is not a box!
- A rose by any other name?
- Infographic of the Day: How to Pick the Perfect Typeface
- 20 Font Driven Websites Showcase
- Play that Funky Music Y Boy
- CR Annual: the iPhone App
User Experience:
- Confirming Passwords Is Annoying: Is There a Better Way?
- Information Software and the Graphical Interface
- Some Gaps To Fill Between Web Apps and Desktop/Mobile Apps
- Revisit: Visualizing the Temporal Dynamics of Twitter Streams
- Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline
- Designing for the Web in the World—Timo Arnall
- The World Bank Data: Open Data Access can be Beautiful
- Google Government Requests Needs your Information Design Input
- Touch Gesture Diagrams
- BBC The Beauty of Maps: Seeing the Art in Cartography
- Social Visualization Software Review: IBM Many Eyes
Other Tangents:
- 40+ Essential iPhone Apps for Freelance Web Designers
- Analytic.ly Provides Real-Time and Historical Twitter Analysis
- 5 must-read books for learnng CSS
- Facebook’s ambition
- Derek Sivers’s talk on How to start a movement…and Herd behaviour
- Losing It
- From Logs to Logarithms
- Why I Believe in Pricing Work Based on Value
- Microsoft links Office to Facebook
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #15
April 17, 2010 in applications, branding, business model, Color, Data Visualization, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, marketing, reference, social media, trends, user experience | Tags: 000 Words, 1, Agency, Apple, Apps, AT&T Rethinks, Book, Brand Implementation, branding, Brock University, Buzz, Chief, Controversy, Covers, Creative, Creativity, Design, Failure, Frog Design, Gaming, Google, Guardian, Heatmap, IA Summit, Infographics, inspiration, Instrument, interactive, iphone, Jan Chipchase, logo, Mapper, Mark Rolston, Market, Mobile Phone, Musical, Organization, Picture, Planning, Position, Professional, Public, Puma, Ranking, Rebrand, Richard Branson, Science, Soccer, Solar, Space, Stock, Stocks, strategy, Talks, TAXI, TED, Tools, Traffic, Tutorial, TV, UK, University, UVA, UX, Waterloo, Wordpress, World, Yellow Pages | 1 comment
Design + Branding:
- Inspiration: Matt W Moore
- Classic TV Guide covers
- Google Doesn’t Understand Professional Logo Design
- TAXI Rebrands Yellow Pages
- Branding Branding
- 30 Inspirational TED Talks on Design and Creativity
- Untitled by Anonymous: An Ode to Branding
- Public: By the Public, for the Public
- When infographics go bad.
- Inspiration – Beautiful Book Cover Designs
- Three Takeaways on Brand Implementation
- An Academic Fingerprint: Brock University
- What the Creative World Needs Now Is Organization
- UK Space Agency Logo Controversy
- AT&T Rethinks its Position
- Follow-Up: University of Waterloo
- A picture is worth a 1000 words, except when it isnt
User Experience:
- Why Apple is still generating buzz
- A Conversation With Jan Chipchase and Frog Design’s Chief Creative, Mark Rolston
- Puma To Launch Solar Mobile Phone
- UVA: Speed of Light 3
- Jesse Schell: When games invade real life
- StockMapper: Interactive Stock Market Heatmap
- IA Summit: An IA in Business School
- The Experience belongs to the User
- The Strange Connection between Entitlement, Social Innovation, and Interaction Design
- Guardian Interactive Chalkboards: Map and Share Soccer Game Events
- Overcoming egocentrism – where to next for the UX research industry?
- Explorations of real-world traffic
- Planning your UX Strategy
- Our favourite multi-channel design tools
- Data visualization tutorial in Processing
Other Tangents:
- Pixel invasion!
- It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor
- 10 Amazing Musical Instrument iPhone Apps
- The 7 ½ Steps to Successful Infographics
- Teach Design: The Importance of Failure
- Insights of Selling a WordPress Theme
- Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do
- Lessons from Richard Branson’s “Business Stripped Bare”
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #14
April 4, 2010 in applications, book reviews, branding, business model, Color, Data Visualization, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, interactive, interview, iphone, marketing, presentation, reference, social media, trends, uncategorized, user experience | Tags: 37Signals, Abandonment, Advertising, Air, Application, Book, branding, Brands, Cable, Cart, Change, Coffee, Communications, Covers, Creating, Creativity, Data, Design, Dunkin Donuts, E-Commerce, Emily Cohen, Facebook, Fan Pages, Freelance, Guide, Helvetica, identity, IKEA, Illustrations, Infographic, inspiration, interview, Jason Fried, Jason Theodor, Layout, Letterpress Business Cards, logo, Magazine, Management, maps, Miller, Nike, Paris, Paula Scher, Phones, Rebrand, Resources, ReWork, School, Shopping, Smartphones, social media, South by Southwest, SXSW, Task Flow, TED Talk, Theme, Tips, twitter, user experience, Vicente Morillo, Weave, Web, website, Wireframes, Wireless, Wordpress, Work | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- Stop Designing Logos, Start Developing Brands
- New identity for Cable & Wireless Communications
- Paula Scher gets serious: TED Talk
- IKEA Subway Advertising In Paris
- Gravity Flooring
- The Danger of You Centered Branding
- 25 Unusual website layout for design inspiration
- The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Theme Design
- 20 Clean White Letterpress Business Cards
- The Secret of Nike Air
- The World’s Fascination with the Infographic
- Black Book Sessions by Vicente Morillo
- Weave Magazine Interview About Creativity With Jason Theodor
- April Fools: Dunkie Drinks Dunkin’s Coffee
- French School Book Covers
- Design for Disassembly
- 30+ minimalistic wallpapers inspired by Helvetica
- 88 Illustrations from REWORK
- Snapper Snaps Sam
User Experience:
- 20 Cutting Edge Ecommerce Stores for Inspiration
- Essential Tips to Improve E-commerce Shopping Cart Abandonment
- Consistency: Key to a Better User Experience
- 10 Excellent Tools for Creating Web Design Wireframes
- Building Your Freelance Business Around WordPress
- Weekend fodder – arm and a leg: Healthcare Inforgraphic
- Pushing Infographics Too Far? The Ford Fusion Competition
- Perceived Affordances and Designing for Task Flow
- Location check-ins during South by Southwest
- Application Maps
- Data Monday: Smartphones vs. Feature Phones
Other Tangents:
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #13
March 28, 2010 in AIGA, applications, branding, business model, Color, conference, Data Visualization, events, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, interactive, interview, iphone, marketing, presentation, social media, trends, user experience | Tags: A.K. Kimoto, Banks, Basics, Boardroom, branding, business model, Change, Chile, conference, Creative Process, David Bowie, Design, Dot-Coms, Dublin, E-Commerce, Error, Facebook, Form, Future, Futurist, Government, Grace Smith, Hourly Rate, identity, IE9, inspiration, Internet Explorer 9, Jason Salavon, job, Lego, Letterpress, logo, Luke Wroblewski, Management, Map, Mike Kuniavsky, Mobile, Movie, NetCom, Neville Brody, NYC, Parisian, Periodic Table, Plan, Planning, Posters, RCA, Rich, Rick Valicenti, Royal College of Art, social media, Stanford, strategy, Subway, SXSW, Title, Trial, Type, Typefaces, ui, user experience, Web App, Wireframing, Wordpress | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- 33 Letterpress Business Cards for Inspiration
- Design Chats Interview with Rick Valicenti
- Royal College of Art goes for Neville Brody
- NYC’s absurdist Subway map
- Protest Posters, Parisian Style
- Horror Government (and Logo)
- Lazarus brands: Coming back from the dead
- The Future of Design Stanford Conference
- NetCom: A Whole Lot of Happy
- Periodic Table of Typefaces
User Experience:
- How banks can use social media and mobile apps
- Rich & Mobile Form Design—Luke Wroblewski
- What Movie UIs Say About the Future
- In search of an identity
- The Spectrum of User Experience (1)
- An In-Depth Look At My Wireframing Process
- 40+ (Funny) Error Messages You’ve Never Seen Before
- Lego of My Boardroom!
- Web App Masters: Designing for Interesting Moments
- 10 Principles of UX
- Trial & Error 101
- Changing Things—Mike Kuniavsky
Other Tangents:
- Life On Mars?
- Spigot (Oracle’s Reflection) by Jason Salavon
- A.K. Kimoto – 1977-2010 R.I.P.
- The Day Dot-Coms Were Invented
- Strategy Basics: It’s Really all about having a Plan
- Why we are getting rid of our hourly rate
- Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive
- SXSW Interview: How to Turn Ideas into Action
- Facebook Measures British, Canadian, and Australian Happiness, Serious Case of Mondays
- Animated GIF Paranoia
- A Crash Course in Creating E-Commerce Websites with WordPress
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #12
March 20, 2010 in applications, branding, business model, Color, conference, Data Visualization, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, interactive, interview, iphone, jobs, marketing, presentation, reference, rgd ontario, social media, trends, user experience | Tags: Annotations, Apple, Augmented Reality, Backgrounds, Chaos, Creativity, Credit Card, CSS, Data, Edward Tufte, Email, Flash, Food Dependence, Form Design, Foursquare, Freelancing, Google, Guides, Hillman Curtis, IA, identity, Image, In-house, Influence, Infographic, Inputs, jobs, logo, Logorama, Magazine, Mobile, Obama, Omnigraffle, Open, Paula Scher, Rebrand, Search Engines, social media, strategy, TED Talk, Transforming, twitter, Type, user experience, UX, Visualizing, Web, Workflow, YouTube | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- Circle Gets the Square
- The Ins and Outs of Working In-house
- Infographic of the Day: The Best Jobs in America
- Brother, can you Spare a Square?
- YouTube and creative suicide
- Inspirational 50 Twitter Backgrounds Showcase
- Paula Scher: Type is Image by Hillman Curtis
- Chaos and Creativity by Jason Theodor
- 18 Search Engines For Designers – Creativity Boost
- 10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site
- What can design bring to strategy?
- 20 Identical Logo Designs – Copy or Coincidence?
- Transforming the Magazine Experience with WIRED
- Interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo
- Logorama: Best Animated Short Film Award
User Experience:
- Explaining User Experience Design to High Schoolers (and other new audiences)
- Email verification – is your call-to-action strong enough?
- Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions
- Visualizing the Issues behind Food Dependence: How to Feed the World?
- Flexible Credit Card Inputs
- Show/Hide Annotations Omnigraffle Script
- Google Public Data Explorer
- “What Are You Suggesting?” Using Images to Influence
- Canada: the country that pees together stays together
- Obama Loves Infographic Movies (and Edward Tufte)
- Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web
- Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk)
- Better Mobile Form Design
- Accusing Google’s Business Practice through (another) Infographic Movie
- Radio Johnny: Joe Lamantia on Augmented Reality
- Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes
- Why UX is really Marketing
Other Tangents:
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #11
March 13, 2010 in branding, business model, Data Visualization, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, iphone, marketing, reference, social media, user experience | Tags: 1969 Holden Hurricane, Aaron Swartz, Agile, App, Bill Buxton, Brand, Chinese, Creativity, Data, Design, Development, Devices, Fonts, Form, Future, IA, icon, ID, identity, Imitation, Infographical Data, Infographics, information architecture, Innovation, Interaction Design, iPhone Wallpaper, jQuery, logo, Martha Stewart, Mobile, Paul Rand, Phone, PSD, Rich, trends, Type, typography, Visual, Vocabulary, Web, Windows, Wireframe, Wireframing | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- The Future of Design Stanford Conference
- Cultivating Innovation And Creativity, Not Managing It
- Current Trends in Design Lab 25 | 25
- CreativeMornings Video: Allan Chochinov of Core77
- How imitation is hurting Chinese brand development
- Paul Rand Store + Free iPhone Wallpapers
- Scribd gets Designd
- Typographer at Law: An Interview with Matthew Butterick
- Egypt, Now Less Arid
- 40 Free Minimalist And High Quality Fonts
- Comparing the 100 Largest Sites on the Internet
- David James: Out of Print
User Experience:
- 365psd.com
- A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design
- Invisible Revolution
- An Hour With Bill Buxton
- Jason Calacanis vs. David Heinemeier Hansson on This Week in Startups
- Newborn Babies Now Crawling in Infographical Data
- Ageing Icons with Freshness App
- Video: Rich & Mobile Form Design
- A Defense of the Unknown in Infographics
- MIX10: The Type We Want
- MIX10: Designing & Developing for the Rich Mobile Web
- See For Yourself: About the Power of Observing
- The Right Way to Wireframe—Fred Beecher
- US Department of State Visualizes Your Opinion about Foreign Affairs
- Nokia S60 Wireframing Stencils
- Windows Phone: Input Controls
- Designers, meet Agile
- Data Monday: Usage of Mobile Devices
Other Tangents:
Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #10
March 6, 2010 in AIGA, applications, branding, business model, Color, Data Visualization, graphic design, identity, Infographic, information architecture, inspiration, interactive, interview, iphone, marketing, reference, social media, user experience | Tags: american, App, applications, Bank, Brand, culture, Design, Fashion, graphic design, hockey, icon, interview, iphone, logo, marks, Mobile, Olympics, Paula Scher, Pentagram, personality, Pictograms, Quiz, Research, Russia, Trend, typography, user experience, UX | Leave a comment
Design + Branding:
- Pr*tty Sh*tty interview with Paula Scher
- Fashionista: More Thread, Less Trend
- Tate modern iphone app for exhibit.
- Russia’s Sunny Bank
- What Is A Global Brand?
- The culture quiz. By Marty Neumeier
- Puma’s ambush branding move
- New thomas.matthews identity
- What Personality Traits Do Designers Share?
- Brand Research and Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Evolution of Olympic Pictograms
- News Topics as Social Network
User Experience:
- 8 Best Practices on Mobile Design
- uxurls.com: a user experience aggregator
- Data Underload #11 – American Hockey
- Johnny TV’s 10 Must-See UX Videos
- Data as Sound: NYTimes Sonification of Winter Olympics Results
- The Different Ways to Design
- My Top Interaction’10 Videos by Matthew Nish-Lapidus
- Best of FlowingData – February 2010
- ‘A Brief Guide to Service Design’ by Paul Thurston & Nick Marsh
Other Tangents:
- The Truth about Mobile Application Stores
- The State of the Internet
- Content Strategy for Web – Edmonton UX Book club’s meeting with Kristina Halvorson
- Crumpled City Maps: When Folding Neatly is not that Practical
- Think like a statistician – without the math
- Guidelines for meeting the D Dalai
- Altimeter Report: The 18 Use Cases of Social CRM, The New Rules of Relationship Management
- Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real?
- How Social Is Too Social?
- Everyone’s model of work is a job
- Death By Competitive Analysis
