A user-controlled, stable-technology filtered search that still smudges the binary.
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The big pieces of the interface – the ones users will focus on and likely conceptualize as the key experience – are further supported. These are objects that support the logic, but users are less likely to key into as characterizing the interface.
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People are used to advanced searches. In some sectors, it’s so expected that not having one is tantamount to hanging a sign, “we’re not serious or knowledgable”.
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The boxed sets are more information, which means a higher cognitive load. They also require more of a footprint.
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Once the logic for shifting from “Include” to “Prioritizable” is available, it’s another stemming search to add an unexposed filter.
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There is absolutely nothing in the dropdown object that says it’s the only viable use case.
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One thing that has become very clear to me is that how we code to interface with data has patterns. They are complex. They have patterns based on broad use, and patterns tailored to specific use, and patterns to signal and help, and design patterns, all of which can be
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The logic shifts in here might feel intense, but: they are all explicable, none of them are new, and there's a good chance the team could reuse code and actually be able to touch it for optimization/update as part of the sprint. 🥰
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Where this truly shines is where people are being creative about what they are looking for. My aha use case was fabric. This is a system that is useful for any product set where your customer base knows what they are looking for, knows how a shift is going to
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Here's where I have to caveat that I do not code (I'm an angry dev; I enjoy smiling). I understand how the information needs to function, not how the code will manage it.
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A piece of fabric doesn't become a suit vest just for wrapping around a body. It needs buttons, it probably has lining, maybe pockets. It's the whole form, altogether, that will look like a vest whether it's on a body or a hanger.
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Filter management is three prongs long term. My gut reaction is that 1 & 2 could be swapped and are probably built at the same time. The third can come down the roadmap.
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When people are searching, they are looking for something. They see a haystack, and want a needle. Why differs. How they approach it differs. The precision of their language differs. But they all want to find something, in a big gnarly informational pot.