Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Tagging tags to make synonyms

Permitting people to add synonymous tags to existing tags ...

"I've had this post in draft for about two months, but it never seemed significant enough to finish up. And then Tagtagger came around. And then someone said Tagtagger could actually be useful. And then I thought, "oh I've done something like that."

Over the past six months we've been working on an internal tagging application for a client. One of the features of the application is a simple authority file of tags. This means that tags can be made synonymous, and that one tag is identified as the preferred term and others as alternate terms.

As you've probably guessed, we implemented this by... tagging tags."   continued ...   (Via Atomiq)

Tagging Tags - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Tagging Tags.

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