I con­tributed to the user inter­face design chap­ter in the recent Springer book “Dynamic Tax­onomies and Faceted Search – The­ory, Prac­tice, and Expe­ri­ence” (online ver­sion) edited by Gio­vanni Maria Sacco and Yan­nis Tzitzikas. Based on a def­i­n­i­tion of core prin­ci­ples and chal­lenges, the chap­ter presents a tax­on­omy of nav­i­ga­tion modes observed in exist­ing appli­ca­tions. On that basis, design pat­terns for enabling these nav­i­ga­tion modes in user inter­faces as well as exten­sions and related approaches are dis­cussed. The chap­ter closes with a sec­tion on per­son­al­iz­ing faceted search.

The book itself cov­ers a wide range of top­ics and cur­rent research ques­tions related to Dynamic Tax­onomies and Faceted Search from an aca­d­e­mic point of view.

You can find a pre-print ver­sion of the User Inter­face Design chap­ter here. Thanks also to my co–authors Sébas­t­ian Ferré, Save­rio Perug­ini, Jonathan Koren and Yi Zhang!

Together with Sebas­t­ian Ferré, I defined and illus­trated some com­mon nav­i­ga­tion modes in faceted search and web appli­ca­tions deal­ing with metadata+resources in gen­eral for an upcom­ing pub­li­ca­tion. I am here shar­ing the gist of it already, as I believe these could be inter­est­ing for many of you.

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