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  • Search Describes Solutions -- But What About Problems?

    calendar Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min read · search ux product design e-commerce  ·
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    I previously said that Search User Interfaces (UI) have two jobs -- helping people find things, and educating them about the structure and contents of the data or catalog they're searching through. (I'll use "catalog" here under the assumption that I'm describing an e-commerce search system, but much of this …


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  • Design Decisions for a New Search Results Page

    calendar May 8, 2026 · 6 min read · search ux product e-commerce  ·
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    One of my specialties as a freelance consultant is discovery systems for e-commerce -- web pages and backend systems for helping users search for and find what they want or need. For the last year and a half, I've been working as a consultant for DesignShop, a company that sells materials samples for home renovations. …


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Featured Posts

  • A Big Win from a Small Search UI Change and a Predictive Model
  • IZE - Revisiting a hierarchical search technology from the PC era
  • How Search and AI Product Teams are Different
  • Post Query Refinement Suggestions in Search UX, and an Algolia Demo App
  • Use LLMs for Translation and Fallible Reasoning
  • Vibe-Coding the Missing Algolia Comparison Dashboard
  • AI-Assisted Coding, Side Projects, and Donationware
  • A Collaborative Template for A/B Tests

Recent Posts

  • A Big Win from a Small Search UI Change and a Predictive Model
  • One More Minute: A Pebble Count-Up Timer with Roman Numeral Vibrations
  • Design Decisions for a New Search Results Page
  • Introducing Almost Five, a New-ish Pebble Watchface
  • Are Black Holes the Answer to Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
  • You Don't Need a Search Engineer; You Need a Search Scientist
  • Nine Things I Learned Building a Scrabble App for My Friends
  • IZE meets AI -- semantic search, smarter labels, and agentic orientation

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