🗃️Filter options, defining ranks for content, and more

Filters will be useful for lots of pages, typically when it comes to publications, recognitions, teaching, or even a blog.

Some researchers will have loads of content and endlessly scrolling through a page is not exactly user-friendly. By applying filters this can make the experience a lot better. However, like any other element of your design, these must be clearly defined.

Think about what you would want to filter by. For most sections you would have the standard options like date, type publishing location, etc. but, you can also add more specific filters. For example with current teaching, you could add a filter for course level. You can add a filter for almost anything, but some would be more useful than others.

I talked about filters here but this all applies similarly to a sort functionality. Choosing between sort or filter is up to you and there may be some pages where you want a filter and some with sort. As long as it's defined, you can do either.

You might also want to have a page-only search.

For sections like publications, a viewer might know exactly what they're looking for. In this case having a separate search, specifically for the publications page would be incredibly handy. There's nothing you need to define necessarily for the search unless you want it to behave in a specific way, this is just to let you know that it is an option.

Finally, defining ranks. This is mostly for suggesting content and these rules can be applied to any page, as long as they're written generally.