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| location | Grand Rapids, MI | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Apr 1 at 18:57 | |
| stats | profile views | 6 |
I am a online application developer by trade, but I started out as a network administrator. I currently work in the nonprofit sector, as well as some freelancing on my own.
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Sep 13 |
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Tags! Massive amounts of tags and a sane interface to use them The tags are used by the end-user for browse-based searching: img823.imageshack.us/img823/2815/browserr.png The interface I am working with here is for staff or power users to add the tags to the tracks to begin with. This is something they would do as they used the program normally. |
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Sep 13 |
revised |
Tags! Massive amounts of tags and a sane interface to use them added 144 characters in body |
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Sep 13 |
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Tags! Massive amounts of tags and a sane interface to use them Also, thanks for the link @Roger Atrill... checking it out |
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Sep 13 |
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Tags! Massive amounts of tags and a sane interface to use them The track tags (where there are thousands of tags) are descriptive, so there's a tag for instruments that are featured on the track, for example, or tags for breathy vocals vs. rasp vocals. The tags for tracks are taken from Pandora's Music Genome Project. The app would use them as Pandora does, to find "similar" tracks based on similarities in tags. We've watered it down a little from Pandora's implementation, though - a tag called "extensive use of vamping" is pretty useless unless you know what the hell "vamping" is. Before we pared the tags down, there were over ten thousand! |
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Sep 13 |
asked | Tags! Massive amounts of tags and a sane interface to use them |
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Sep 13 |
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Best practices to prevent distracting and overwhelming design? +1, IMO, if red is used as a design color, pick a different color for the text, links, and other content elements. I like red, but I think you can beat it to death! |
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Sep 13 |
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UI for search: three “buckets” at once Thanks for the input. I didn't end up doing this, but I did spend a lot of time on this site getting a feel for the mechanics, and some other aspects of the UI reflect this experience. Thanks again for the tipoff! |
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Sep 13 |
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UI for search: three “buckets” at once I sort-of ended up with this solution. After trying several iterations of the same theme, the client seemed to take to this: img714.imageshack.us/img714/6623/resultsj.png. Each search area (artists, albums, tracks) is simultaneously searched, each is searched at three levels progressing sequentially. So first, a search is made for exact matches only, when those results come back another search is made with wild cards (term is IN name/title), then a "sounds-like" search is last. |
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Sep 13 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Sep 13 |
accepted | UI for search: three “buckets” at once |
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Sep 13 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jun 4 |
awarded | Student |
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Jun 3 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jun 3 |
revised |
UI for search: three “buckets” at once added 260 characters in body |
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Jun 3 |
asked | UI for search: three “buckets” at once |
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Jun 3 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
