Another example of a nice classic left nav implementation can be found at Dawdle.
Posts Tagged ‘facets
19
Oct
08
decent left nav – dawdle
Cool concept for all refinements in one interface, but I worry about over-steering to zero results all in one step.
Faith just sent me a link to endless, pointing to their faceted navigation. It’s a classical implementation in a left nav bar, but you can see that they put thought into each navigator specifically, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach. I haven’t used the site extensively yet, but it seems like it would work nicely.
Category navigator:
Brand navigator (multiple select as well as keyword search), color family, and shoe size:
Heel height and price:
One thing i’m not sure works well is their search state breadcrumbs. They are in the left nav, where you selected them instead of somewhere more visible.
06
May
08
pretty left nav design, bluefly
Nice font, visually pleasing. I like the two-column solution for some of the navigators. Their search state messaging is not very visible though, I wonder how well it’s working out for them.
05
May
08
starting over, two examples
A faceted browsing classic. NCSU Libraries search, powered by Endeca (via Findability.org)
05
May
08
very pretty left nav, volkswagen
Pretty, space-efficient, and easy to use navigation. Volkswagen UK (via Findability.org)
04
May
08
if you need that many words…
If you need a tooltip explaining the main navigational element on your site, you either don’t trust your users’ intelligence or didn’t do a very good job of designing it. Also, if you need that many words to explain it, you’re in even bigger trouble.
02
May
08
search state, wigix
search state is on top of results, the place to undo is in the left nav, where you selected it (see way at the bottom). wigix.
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