[chisigmail] auto-suggest

[Chris Khalil]

Hi Ben,

Sound to me like you're after a design pattern for autocomplete/autosuggest.

Take a look around these pattern libraries (I've included a link to their autocomplete pattern), you might find the answers to your questions.

Yahoo Pattern Library
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/pattern.php?pattern=autocomplete

Welie:
http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=autocomplete

 
Peter Morville:
http://flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603790637533/

UI Pattern Factory
http://uipatternfactory.com/p=inline-suggestions/

JustAddWater
http://justaddwater.dk/2007/05/05/affordance-of-autocomplete-text-fields/

Hope this helps.
Chris
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From: ben ryan <turnover at cue-the-sun.com>
To: chisigmail at chisig.org
Sent: Sunday, 30 November, 2008 11:15:10 PM
Subject: [chisigmail] auto-suggest

Hi all,

I am currently working on a proposed implementation of an auto-suggest feature on a web form (in particular, a search).

I'm wondering if there are any articles out there that have analysed various implementation of such a feature and ranked them based on their effectiveness - particularly with regard to what are the dos and don'ts for using this sort of feature.

As an example, using a limited set of high level suggestions, versus a more complete set ranked by popularity; activation on focus to the field vs activation after the first 3 characters have been keyed, etc.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Regards

Ben
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