Pagination Alternatives

Question

I am looking for ideas for pagination alternatives. I am aware of 2 pagination schemes:

• Click on pages pagination - my favorite example
• Infinite scroll pagination - one implementation here that seems to work

There must be some other less known/popular ways to do it. Bonus points if you can provide a link to a demo

Thanks

Answer 1

I think that a good alternative to paging is a way, or more than one way, for the user to tell the server something about what it is they're looking for. For some types of content (like, a whole lot of text, say from a research paper or a work of fiction), of course you're probably stuck with paging. But when the content is naturally searchable (like tables of checking account transactions), good, simple filtering tools are probably more useful than pagination schemes. (Actually you may need both.)