The End of Pagination

<blockquote class='posterous_long_quote'><b>Above all else, you should strive to make pagination irrelevant because the user never has to look at more than a few items to find what they need</b>. That's why I suspect Google hasn't done much with this technique in their core search result pages; if they aren't providing great results on page 1, it doesn't really <i>matter</i> what kind of pagination they use because they're not going to be in business much longer. Take that lesson to heart: you should be worried most of all about presenting a <i>relevant</i> list of items to the user in a sensible order. Once you've got that licked, then and only then should you think about your pagination scheme.</blockquote>