Secondary sorting or smart sorting
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Cara Joyce
Enable a user to sort by multiple factors. One possibility is, when two categories are highlighted, if there is a tie, the second category is deferred two as secondary means of sorting. The other option is that by a system of multiplication or something else similar, there is a "cross-sort" where the two factors paired together are sorted by their optimal paired scores.
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Joshua Chen
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Joshua Chen
The first idea is very reasonable and I've always wanted it, but I'm not sure what you mean by the second one—do you have an example