• Overview: Gain an overview of the entire collection.
• Zoom: Zoom in on items of interest
• Filter: filter out uninteresting items.
• Details-on-demand: Select an item or group and get details when needed.
• Relate: View relationships among items.
• History: Keep a history of actions to support undo, replay, and progressive refinement.
• Extract: Allow extraction of sub-collections and of the query parameters.

— The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations

• for best visual accessibility in UI, users should start with an overview, with ability to zoom-in/out (ZUI)
• filtering is crucial when dealing with a lot of informations
  • I think we should also optimize for scanability of the information
• details should be only given when requested
• relationships are interesting to point out, this is how links get formed
• history seems obvious to have, but I believe that the way most current software tackles history could be improved upon
• extraction is an interesting topic:
  • getting out raw information pack is obvious, but how does it then related to the place where it was originally found? - computers are notoriously bad at this, to the point where common way of sharing things is sending flattened screenshots
  • maybe extraction could be a saved view on top of the data?
• this rules are very relevant to both Browsing, and Searching