5 Whole Minutes about Sort and Filter
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5 WHOLE MINUTES ABOUT SORT AND FILTER
IUE 2011
Danielle Cooley @dgcooley
Sort, defined
to place (records) in order, as numerical or alphabetical, based on the contents of one or more keys contained in each record
Like this:
Filter, defined
a higher-order function that processes a data structure (typically a list) in some order to produce a new data structure containing exactly those elements of the original data structure for which a given predicate returns the boolean value true
Like this:
They are not the same.
=/=Sort Filter
Yet many misuse the terms.
!
Do users understand the difference?
Probably not.
But it doesn’t really matter.
Somehow, filter has (mostly) evolved in a user-friendly way.
Sort – Link
Sort – Dropdown
Sort – Jigga-WHA?!
Sort – Sorting by the Usual Things…
Price – high to lowPrice – low to high
NameReview/RatingPopularityBestsellersBest Match (?)
Sort – Sorting by Other Things…
Bestsellers/Popularity
Greatest % off
New Arrivals
“Featured”
Sort – Sorting by Specific Things…
Publication DateDimensions (all 3)
Sort – What’s the Default?
Bestsellers/PopularityGreatest % offNew Arrivals
Sort – Not Sorting
Filter – Single-Select (link)
Filter – Single-Select (dropdown)
Filter – Multi-Select (checkboxes)
Filter – Sliders