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Comment by s_severus

3 years ago

Small note on the part about the price range UI controls: the author criticizes Amazon for using min, max number inputs rather than a slider control.

2 arguments against a slider:

1. Potentially it is much harder to make an accessible slider control. 2. Sliders break down when you have a distribution skewed away from normal. For instance, if 90% of results are in the range $0-$50, but then a few results are over $1000, how do you calibrate the slider? A naïve approach would render it almost unusable if you want to limit to products between $20 - $30. Otherwise you need some sort of logarithmic scale. I've not seen examples of this being done well.

Agree with you here. I thought the article made some good points but I've also been bitten by the "naive" [mix, max] slider you describe - I did yearn for some good old text boxes back then!