There are three fundamental ways that people find information and reports on a website:
1. By Navigation, i.e. a website's information architecture
2. By search
3. By an A-Z index
The secret is to ensure each one is properly configured and optimized.
One of the best search panels I have ever seen was used by the Centre of Disease Control (CDC) in the US. I had the privilege of creating a search panel for another client pictured here and used some of the basis of the CDC's usability research into search best practices to create it:
1. By Navigation, i.e. a website's information architecture
2. By search
3. By an A-Z index
The secret is to ensure each one is properly configured and optimized.
One of the best search panels I have ever seen was used by the Centre of Disease Control (CDC) in the US. I had the privilege of creating a search panel for another client pictured here and used some of the basis of the CDC's usability research into search best practices to create it:
