{"id":175,"date":"2015-01-21T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:49:41","slug":"search-dominant-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/search-dominant-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Dominant Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word: \u00a0<\/strong>Search-Dominant Users<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>The tendency of a user to go straight for the search bar when first entering\u00a0a site looking for content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong>\u00a0Jakob Nielsen\u00a0sheds light on search-dominant users in his 1999 book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Designing-Web-Usability-Jakob-Nielsen\/dp\/156205810X\">Designing Web Usability<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and notes, that over half of users exhibited \"search-dominant\" tendencies. However, Nielsen's assertion was later tested in later\u00a0research studies\u00a0including Jared Spool's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uie.com\/articles\/always_search\/\">study<\/a> in which he found no \"search-dominant\" users, and instead, found only \"search-dominant\" sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts and Questions:\u00a0<\/strong>While a debate still remains, it is important to understand the power of search\u00a0and\u00a0take careful consideration when designing a user interface. Whether the user is search-dominant or you created a site that promotes search-dominant behavior, you better believe that users will be searching for that search!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word: \u00a0Search-Dominant Users Definition:\u00a0The tendency of a user to go straight for the search bar when first entering\u00a0a site looking for content. Reference:\u00a0Jakob Nielsen\u00a0sheds light on search-dominant users in his 1999 book, Designing Web Usability\u00a0and notes, that over half of users exhibited &#8220;search-dominant&#8221; tendencies. However, Nielsen&#8217;s assertion was later tested in later\u00a0research studies\u00a0including Jared Spool&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[49,48,8,9],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terms","category-user-interface","tag-search","tag-search-dominant-users","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}