Helping your users succeed

AquaBrowser is engineered throughout to help your users — from public library patrons to university researchers — succeed in finding what they need as quickly and easily as possible. And not only does AquaBrowser make your library truly accessible to your patrons, but it also enables information discovery, opening new paths and landscapes of knowledge to truly widen your user’s world.

Search, Discover, Refine

AquaBrowser’s thought-through paradigm around searching is based on the fact that although most searches aren’t easily captured in just one word, that’s all that users tend to enter. Yet they expect good results. AquaBrowser uses both the word cloud’s associative search and the refine panel’s powerful search faceting to take the interface to the next level: instead of just replying to queries, it engages in a conversation with the user to develop a context for searching. That way, it can maximize the quality of the search results.

From novices to experts

The AquaBrowser interface is the product of years of informed design and usability studies. Using AquaBrowser’s unique ‘adaptive user interface’ principles from the outset, searching is made extremely easy and accessible to the novice computer and library user.

Then, as with experience the user becomes more of an information expert, the interface gradually exposes more power and flexibility. The user can take advantage of advanced search interfaces and a host of expert query options that turn AquaBrowser into a full-blown real-time collection analysis tool.