On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Pau Giner <pginer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I created a prototype to illustrate some of the concepts for searching a
flow board:
http://pauginer.github.io/prototypes/flow/search/index.html
...
- Integrate search with table of contents. The table of contents can
act as a de-facto search results summary you can open after searching to
have an overview of the topics where your query was found (and information
on whether some of these topics were in your watchlist or you participated
in them).
Which raises the question[1] why not show similar information in the
regular TOC? A
regular TOC could show the same watchlist and my
participation indicators, and show number of posts and/or number of
participants in place of number of search matches.
I think the two spike items to research are
* Can we get a count of matches in each topic from CirrusSearch?
* Can we enough information from Cirrus about ALL search matches to
highlight search matches throughout an entire live topic?
The interesting UX case is whether users will use the < > 2 of 7 mode to
advance from match to match through the found topics.
I don't recall Pau pointing it out, but the gray indicator line underneath,
showing your progress with search match markers is really cool. Danny
doesn't like distracting animation and it will be difficult to keep the
representation accurate when topics aren't yet loaded, but showing users
where you are while scrolling through a 400-post topic seems extremely
useful.
[1] Not "Begs the question
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question>" !!! arggghh
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