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Search Facet Modeling Lab

Hands-on graph exercises show how to collapse redundant facets, prefetch counts, and keep URL state readable for support. Includes accessibility review of filter announcements.

Self-paced hybrid 5 weeks Weekend blocks Catalog UX
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Tuition (planning only)

1,050,000 KRW

Informational pricing—no checkout on this site.

Facilitator

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Theo Marin

Search mentor for large grocery taxonomies in Korea.

Inside the syllabus

  • Facet graph whiteboarding templates
  • Prefetch budgeting for count endpoints
  • URL state patterns for shareable searches
  • Screen reader walkthrough scripts
  • Load testing scripts with k6 snippets
  • Mentor pairing on tricky taxonomy merges

Artifacts you keep

  • Ship a facet graph doc with risk callouts
  • Demonstrate accessible filter announcements
  • Run a k6 snippet with interpreted results

Participant questions

Search engine?

Concepts apply broadly; Elasticsearch examples appear in week four.

Data sets?

Synthetic catalogs provided; importing yours is optional homework.

Limitations?

No ML ranking tuning—deterministic facets only.

Recent reflections

Facet graph template saved our advisors hours on duplicate filter bugs.

Hajun Park · Product engineer · Google