Modern way to drill down on Web?

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atostaine
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Modern way to drill down on Web?

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I am designing an "inventory inquiry". The user will want to drill down to find their inventory.

Something like they search for a customer and style, then results would be displayed like this:

Style/Color/Size/Season/Model/Aux1/Aux2/Building/Location. Should that be a classic tree view or something else?
Art Tostaine
jyoung
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Re: Modern way to drill down on Web?

Post by jyoung »

Hi Art,

I think it depends on your targeted device.

For example an on mobile site I think a drill down via "window" is appropriate. Where each "window" has buttons to move up or down the hierarchy.
On more desktop / workstation devices a tabular tree may be best.
If all elements have the same attributes you may be able to use a List and assign parent nodes.

If the number if children is know ahead of time an accordion may work where each "level" in the accordion represents either a selected item detail or a list of children.

Good Luck! Let us know how it comes out.
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