Tagging is the process to add tags to content. In usability tagging helps other users to know the scope of the content
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Does the average user understand the difference between “tagging” and “categories”?
Which is more user friendly for the "mass population" on the internet? Is it better to present the traditional "category" pattern when having them post something on your site, or is the "tagging" ...
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Do people use tag clouds
A lot of blogs, or other types of sites with a lot of content units use tag clouds, where trending words are shown, with more trending words being displayed bigger, and less popular words having a ...
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Can tags have hierarchy?
Does anyone have experience working with nested tags? I could not find any websites that allow users to have hierarchies in their tags (equivalent to non-mutually exclusive categories). Is it a bad ...
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Why is a tags first letter in lower case?
Too me, it would be more natural to have tags with an initial upper case letter than a lower case letter, but that isn’t the case (pun intended). I hear no reason to why that is, but colleagues keep ...
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Tags! Massive amounts of tags and a sane interface to use them
I am working on a web application for music which uses multi-tier tagging. Artists, albums, and tracks have a separate set of tags from a pre-defined list that can be applied, plus each user may add ...
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strategies for applying properties to many items
I'm working on a web application where one of the workflows centers around the configuration of a large number of items. An important part of this configuration is applying one or more properties to ...
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What are good rules for naming tags?
Similar to What are good rules for naming menu items?, what are good tag naming conventions?
For example, should one pluralize the topic (wavelets) or always use the singular (wavelet)? Is it better ...
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Inspiration / examples of filtering several hundred (but not Ks) elements?
Our app supports decisions made on 500-1000 research proposals for our telescopes. The proposals have a lot of dimensions, so the users would like to be able to explore similar proposals. ("Proposals ...
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List autocomplete delete/edit behaviour
I am not sure what these widgets are called, but they are the ones used to assigned tags to questions on SE and appear in webmail apps such as GMail and Hotmail as well:
If someone could chime in ...
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Products in Tabs - Bad idea?
In a current project I'm trying to make an argument against a 'major feature' of the homepage of an e-commerce site. The so called feature would be the display of featured products with different tags ...
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What is the difference between Categories, Keywords, Labels and Tags?
Is there a standard way of using Categories, Keywords and Tags in the context of blogs, websites and web applications? I am not sure if it is a case of these being equivalent of synonyms in some ...
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Defining a Tagging Vocabulary
My organization is implementing a tagging system to assign meta-data to incoming emails.
The goal is to extract a more diverse range of information which in turn allows us to analyze trends & ...
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Categories or tags based navigation ?
I am not sure if tags based navigation would be easier for users. In our web we categorize software (like download.com) and categories maybe are hard to understand.
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Tagging Projects on a Portfolio
I am wanting to organize my work on my portfolio with tags. I am wondering if I should have tags describe the type of work and systems used AND a description of what the project is.
For example: A ...
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New design pattern for tagging documents?
Working on the design of platform for keeping annotations, I came up with a new way of tagging items, which I call 'Drag to tag':
Drag the tag to the words that are typical for the webpage to add ...
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can user-generated tags help organise a site's IA?
I am working on a project for an ecommerce website where there are multiple personas. Each persona will have a different mental model of the system so the IA is proving especially hard.
My original ...
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Are there any UI pattern sites with a bookmarklet / selective screen capture (think Skitch) tool?
For over a year now I've been trying to get into all of these UI pattern sites, but the fundamental flaw I've found across the board is the level of effort it takes to create/post styles you come ...
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Category and tagging organization
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Looking to present tagged recipes (edit: that users have tagged themselves on their own recipes) in a way that makes them easy to find. All tags are automatically categorized; recipes may ...
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Best way for users to explore non-visual content
I'm working on a project that offers a library of content to choose from. The challenge is that the content is purely textual. My users will roughly know what they want, but they'll also want to ...
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Using tags for access control
We are building a web-based application which contains a bunch of images and documents, and there is a requirement to be able to restrict what images/documents a particular user can see. (It's your ...
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How to manage photo tagging on a modal dialog?
I am developing a bookmarking service allowing users to save an image into a specific folder.
Users can replace the original photo with a custom one from different sources (PC, Webcam, URL)
Once the ...
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Should I use categories or tags in a site were users can follow other users?
I'm creating a website were users can post tutorials. They can follow other people, so they can get their feed.
Right now there are two fields: title and content.
I'm not very sure whether to add a ...
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What are the differences between tagging and Navigation?
We have our site navigation done. When we create a content we tag it with certain tags like images, sales, etc and we also assign it to navigation as to which part of site it should appear. Sometimes ...
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Is it ok to show 'might interest you' on hover-cards?
I'm trying to decide regarding content of hover-cards. The conflict I'm trying to resolve is whether it's alright to direct to other pages on my site that can interest the viewer, or should I keep it ...
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What is the best photo tagging experience?
What is the best experience to use for a photo tagging feature? to view tagging when we hover on the photo? or having a separate button in the photo page that calls for tagging ?
