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On my last post I talked about the progression of GUIs, on this post I will try to different our SUI – search User Interface from a non GUI search engine.

As a child I was always fascinated by computer graphics and especially user interfaces. No, I wasn’t a geek exploring and researching user interfaces, but many of my decisions — which computer game to play, what kind of computer I wanted for my 13th birthday — were based on the design of the computer’s GUI.

All of my friends bought early versions of IBM’s PC XT 286, which had only a CLI and no GUI. I didn’t go with the flow. I preferred the AMIGA computer (Amiga 500),which was far less popular, had less games, but had absolutely stunning graphics, games and resolution. The AMIGA boasted an early edition of a Windows-style operating system.

The Search Is On: Search Engines GUI and SortFix’s SUI

Ironically, most modern search engines are operated by a textual query, very much like the old CLIs. They are fast, but exhausting, and not overly user friendly. Users are unable to search in a much more powerful, friendly and efficient way due to the lack of a GUI.

It’s at this point exactly the main concept underlying the SortFix GUI was born. Actually we call it SUI for search user interface. It’s a GUI developed, designed and tailored for search.

On the next post I will cover our first SUI design concepts and further usability research.

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