How good is your search interface?

A good search interface can increase sales 400%

Does it support the right types of search?

There's more to search than meets the eye. Do you support browsing? Exploring? Decision making?

Does it support the right types of searchers?

Not everyone knows what they want, or knows if your website can help them. Which searchers do you want to support?

Getting Started

Ready to evaluate your own search interface?

1. Sign up

There's a button top-right

2. Start a new project

Once your signed in, you'll see the button. It'll be here on the right.

3. Follow the 3 steps

First your tell us which interfaces you want to evaluate. Then you tell us the different parts that help searchers search. Then you enter the data for each bit!

4. Get your results!

Then you'll have 3 graphs. One tells you about the types of tactics you support. One tells you about the parts. The third tells you how well you support different types of searchers.

[ Example ] [ Real Projects ]

Example Comparison of 3 Designs

Which tactics do they support?

[ Tell me about these user types ]

What makes the designs good or bad?

Which user profiles is it good for?

[ Tell me about these user types ]

More Info

This 3 page academic paper explains a bit more about the whole thing. Section 3 explains how it works (< 1 page).