Is using a sentence as a search filter better to engage the user compared to showing featured items?

In a marketplace, what do you think will be better: Making a sentence that the user completes by picking from several options that lead to results base on his request, or just showing featured items (most sold, most popular, etc.)?
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Has user testing found that the "three horizontal bars" for main menu on mobile is commonly understood?

“Three horizontal lines” aka “hamburger icon” seems to be becoming a convention for the “main menu” button, especially on mobile sites:
Has anyone done any user testing of this convention, or got any A/B testing results? (i.e. is there …
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What font is best for full screen closed captions?

I’d like to upload some closed caption audiobooks to YouTube where the video is simply the subtitles for the text being read. [Here’s an example].
What design would best suit this purpose?
I’m pretty set on a simple design: single fo…
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Silly Saturdays: Jimmy Fallon, Robin Thicke And Company Cover “Blurred Lines”

This is classic internet meme stuff. You just finished reading Silly Saturdays: Jimmy Fallon, Robin Thicke and Company Cover “Blurred Lines”! Consider leaving a comment!Stuff to check out UX Drinking Game | UX Resume and Career Guide
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Colin Harman: How Would You Like Your Graphic Design — Fast, Cheap Or Good? Pick Two.

Awesome infographic. Designers everywhere will agree. You just finished reading Colin Harman: How Would You Like Your Graphic Design — Fast, Cheap or Good? Pick Two.! Consider leaving a comment!Stuff to check out UX Drinking Game | UX Resume and Career Guide
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What are best practices for blocking UI when application is busy

I’m writing a web app using Twitter Bootstrap with PHP on server side.
My app makes regular ajax requests via jQuery and i want to disable certain parts of the UI until the server completes processing and hands back the control to Client-S…
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The Redesign: Questions To Ask Before You Start

Redesigning your application the right way means putting pieces in place to make sure you can change culture and keep your job. Doing it wrong can get you fired or kill a company.
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Update vs Modify vs Change – Create vs Add – Delete vs Remove

I am working in a human resources management application and I have to often work with the creation/deletion/updating of people from the web interface.
I’d like to know whether Update, Change and Modify have slightly different meaning and…
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Rapid content audits, can this be done?

Content audits although immensely dull are essential to understanding an existing websites content. Content audits for larger sites where you’re capturing each page and analysing the content page by page is obviously very time consuming. I…
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How to stop car lights being left on

The lights in cars can be a very frustrating experience for users. Most of us who drive have left our lights on and quite a few of us will have come to our cars to find them completely unusable for their primary purpose because of somethin…