The tags tag has no wiki summary.
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Creating a tag longer than 25 characters
Today I wanted to add a "conversion-centered-design" tag, but it is 26 characters long. At the same time, "ccd" may be harder to understand. Any way out of this?
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Is “website-design” a useful tag?
Our most common tag is website-design. Without reading the tag's wiki, it seems like most questions on this site are about "web-design," which means that many users may begin typing "web" and then ...
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Tag wiki excerpts starting with different case
Editing some of the tag wikis I was wondering, if there is or should be a consistent way for writing concerning the starting of the tag excerpt.
Some tag excerpts start as if the excerpt were to be ...
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Why are tags limited to 5
Why is there a limit to 5 tags for questions?
Why is there no information for the user that there is a limit until they try enter more than 5 tags?
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Should noun tags be pluralized?
Conventions are a good thing. It seems we're leading toward plural forms of all tag names that are nouns, as you can see from the tag page.
I'd like to come to a concensus on the "proper" ...
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Remove the [.net] tag?
There is a newly created tag .net with two closed questions using the tag. Since User Experience doesn't relate to specific frameworks, should we delete it or post a DO NOT USE in the Tag Wiki ...
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Should [modal-dialog] be renamed to [modal-window]?
When reading Is a lightbox considered a dialog box? (and writing my answer) I realized our tag for "modal" stuff is modal-dialog. As you'll note in my answer, I don't agree that all modal things are ...
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What questions should get the HCI tag?
The hci tag has been applied very rarely, almost certainly less often than relevant. What sort of questions should have this tag? My inclination is anything approaching usability/UX work from a ...
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Are [button] and [buttons] duplicate tags?
Is there a difference between the two tags button and buttons? If not, perhaps someone can merge the tags and add one as a synonym for the other?
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Should we blacklist the [user-interface] tag?
The tag ui (and ux) has been blacklisted (can't be used) as an "Intrinsic Tag"; it basically applies to all/a great subset of the content on this site, thus it serves no practical purpose.
Now we ...
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Are [user-research], [usability-study], [testng] and [usability-testing] distinct or should they be merged?
We have two three four tags, user-research, usability-study, usability-testing and testing. The tag wiki for testing is a technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users making it clearly ...
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Tags on prototyping tools?
I looked at the list of tags and stumbled upon axure (just 1 question tagged with this right now). If we keep this one might argue that we also need a 'Balsamiq' tag etc.
This tag might be covered by ...
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Do the user-interaction and user-behavior tags add anything useful to the site?
I'm puzzled here, two of our biggest tags, with lots of followers, are user-behavior and user-interaction. They're pretty close to being intrinsic tags (applicable to the whole scope of the site). But ...
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Do we need audience tags?
Target audience is very important in design, but on this site we have a pretty bad history of not mentioning audience often, and almost never tagging for audience.
In the past I've created the ...
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Does it make sense to keep the tag 'jobs'?
The tag 'jobs' seems to be used a lot for questions around the role of UX, skills and career-development (http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs). This tag might even encourage these type ...
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We need to split the Windows tag
The tag wiki for windows explains the problem well enough:
refers to both Microsoft's operating system by that name, and the rectangular frame with a title bar and UI inside it.
We really need ...
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Do we need/have a tag for management issues?
We have a few good questions about getting Management/ect to fund/play nice with UX and usability research, such as "Selling" the management on need for UX focus and How do sell people on ...
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Make tag synonym or retag question?
There is two tags that have the same meaning:
browser with 16 tagged questions
web-browser with 1 tagged question
One option is to retag the one question with the [browser] tag instead.
Another ...
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Tags with hyphens in them can wrap incorrectly on mobile version
When a tag includes one or more hyphens (as in the mac-os-x tag), it can in some instances span multiple lines in the mobile version, breaking the "tag" illusion:
The fix already exists in the ...
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Make [desktop] a synonym of [desktop-application]
Having both seems a bit redundant, and the latter is used more, as well as being more meaningful (IMO).
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What is the name of the image file used for the white tag backgrounds?
Tags are very difficult for me to see on this site because I use reverse-video colors but the tag background image is hard-wired to be white (so I can't see my light text on it). On other SE sites ...
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Is “user-interaction” a useful tag?
The user-interaction tag is one of our most common tags but it's not a term I've ever heard before this site. I'm thinking maybe people use it as a synonym of interaction-design but user interaction ...
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Microcopy and copywriting are not the same thing
I noticed that the microcopy tag has been made a synonym of copywriting. I disagree with this because microcopy is a very specific form of copywriting - it deals mostly with very small instances of ...
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How can I turn off the coloring of questions tagged with a “frequented tag” tag?
On StackOverflow, questions in a list of questions have a different background color when they are tagged with a tag that is listed in your favorite tags. Since yesterday (?) I see questions on ux ...
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Tags for age/user groups?
This question is begging for an age-related tag and we don't seem to have one, and I wasn't sure how to word such a thing myself. I would personally use the term "Older users" but I'm sure there's a ...
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Tag for general UX questions
I tried to come up with a tag for questions relating to the ux field itself - its career, training and other general aspects. I'd call it "meta", but, well, that's obviously not a very bright idea. ...
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All tags on the main ux.se site have become unlinked from their questions.
All of the tags come up with '0 Questions Tagged with this Tag' message. It works correctly here on Meta but not on the Main site.
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Alternatives to the “best-practices” tag
After usability, next on my hit-list is best-practices. I think it's too generic to be useful, and we should encourage more specific tags like research and design-patterns. What do you think? What ...
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When should a question be tagged “usability”?
We have 198 questions tagged usability. It's currently defined as "the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object," which could apply to just about every question on UX. Is there a way to ...
