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Making target when writing a question a mandatory selection?
I've seen questions where it wasn't clear at first sight (and also not at second or third), if at all, what they were about. So, wouldn't it be advantageous if there were a list of "main" ...
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Merge [android-ux] into [android]
We have two tags about Android: android (855 questions) and android-ux (58 questions). I can't see any difference in the questions using these tags, so I propose that they be merged, keeping android ...
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Merge or synonymise [ai] and [artificial-intelligence]
The site currently has two tags for questions related to artificial intelligence:
ai with two questions at the time of writing, and
artificial-intelligence with nine questions at the time of writing.
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What would the best (top) tag hierarchy be?
I wanted to share some work I have done to look at the community's tag set and estimate a hierarchy:
https://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/blog/2020/06/19/a-ux-hierarchy-from-folksonomy/
A ...
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Merge and synonymize the tag [wireframing] into [wireframe]
The two tags are very similar and used interchangeably:
[wireframe] currently has 177 questions.
[wireframing] currently has 18 questions.
I think we could merge and synonymize them into [wireframe]....
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Synonymize/merge [prototype] into [prototyping]
There are two very similar tags:
prototyping, currently 119 questions and a decent tag excerpt and wiki.
prototype, currently 25 questions (5 of which also have the prototyping tag) without excerpt ...
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Delete [accesibility] tag
The tag [accesibility] is a misspelled version of the [accessibility] tag. I would suggest this to be deleted.
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Create tag [synonym-request] for UX Meta
It's common on meta SE sites to have a tag named synonym-request. For an example, see Meta StackExchange.
A request to add one tag as the synonym of another tag. Please be specific about which tag ...
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Add tag [macos], change [mac-os-x] to be its synonym
mac-os-x should be renamed to macos. The brand Mac OS X was changed to macOS alongside the announcement and release of macOS Sierra in 2016. To reflect this, we should change the tag to macos, but ...
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There are two tags for accessibility
I have found two tags for accessibility. The normal one, accessibility and one with wrong spelling: accesibility.
Can someone delete the last one or merge them?
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Should we delete the [UX Designer] tag?
I was about to weed through ux-designer and noticed there are more instances I'd need to remove than to leave (and it's not very common anyway).
This is one that pops up once in a while as a "can't ...
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Synonomize [google-materials-design] and [material-design]
google-materials-design and material-design are basically the same thing. They currently are not synonyms. Should they be merged, synonomized, or the less-active one deleted?
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Can we change the criteria for getting tag badges?
Right now, we have the following badges for tags:
Gold Badges – Two, and only JohnGB has been awarded them
Silver Badges – Four, JohnGB has been awarded all of them and DA01 has been awarded one
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The tags [sort] and [sorting]
We have two tags which, I think, should be merged / become synonyms:
sort (× 68)
putting items into order, for example alphabetic.
sorting (× 87)
any process of arranging items in some sequence ...
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Tag synonyms / merge? User-testing and usability-testing
Should user-testing and usability-testing co-exist as separate tags, or should they be combined?
I personally don't like the user-testing as it implies it's the user that is being tested, so ...
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Should cart be a synonym of the shopping-cart tag?
Should cart be merged in as a synonym of shopping-cart?
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Accessibility vs Disabilities tags
We've got two tags: accessibility and disabilities. Personally I don't see the need for two and think disabilities should be made a synonym of accessibility
Disabilities isn't a very common tag and I ...
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Does the "tools" tag need to be revised?
I posted this question and the community has exiled it from ux.stackexchange. I was doubtful if ux.stackexchange was the right place for the question, but when I discovered the tools tag, I was ...
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Delete "Desi" tag
There is a tag desi that doesn't appear to have any meaning, it's probably just a typo of design. Since we already have a design tag can we get this one deleted?
https://ux.stackexchange.com/...
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Why are there so many under-utilised tags, and tags that look like they should never have been created in the first place?
There are a pile of tags associated with 3 or fewer questions. ("3" is not a magic number. It just seemed a reasonable number to consider "small".) Many of these look as though they should never have ...
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Make the experience tag intrinsic
I was retagging "signup-signon" questions, so paying more attention to tags than usual. And so I noticed the tag experience.
I don't see a use for it other than indicate that the question is about ...
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Tags about registration and login
Today, I manually removed the misspelled tag registraton from two separate questions. While this was an easy thing with only two questions having the tag, either making the misspelling a synonym or ...
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Tag Typo? [style-gude]
There's a tag named style-gude. I'm fairly certain that's a typo of style-guide, which is also a tag that already exists. Interestingly, style-gude has a description while style-guide does not, ...
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Is there a difference between [user] and [users]?
The user and users are seems to be the same thing. Even their tag info is kinda identical. Shouldn't they merged and one be a synonym for the other?
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Is the Design tag needed?
So there's a design tag and I'm struggling to imagine a situation where it'd actually be useful; there's much more specific and relevant tags like flat-design and responsive-design that have value, ...
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Oh what a tangled Web tag we weave
While cleaning up untagged posts, I noticed we probably have some significant redundancy in our web related tags:
mobile web and web app are definitely fine, websites is a synonym of website design. ...
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Bridging the qualitative and quantitative aspects of UX design
It occurred to me that there are not many tags devoted to the description of more qualitative aspects of UX, such as clarity, accuracy, precision, simplicity, etc. I was wondering whether it is a good ...
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More UX design questions relating to different languages/cultures
How can we encourage more discussion about inclusive design, especially taking into account of catering for different languages and cultures?
I saw some UI design questions that show screen shots of ...
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Can we merge the tag 'iconograpy' with 'icons'?
The tag iconograpy is a typo and I noted that the tag iconography redirects to icons.
Can we either delete the misspelled tag (only tagged to one post) or point it to icons?
edited to add: I re-...
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Should we get rid of the user-experience tag?
Following on from the Should we get rid of the User-Interaction tag? question last year, it's now come to my attention that we have currently 95 questions tagged with user-experience.
As someone in ...
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Color tag vs Color-scheme tag
In UX.SE, should these tags be the same (synonym) and if not, when would you use one and not the other?
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Тags for different types of user interfaces
There're a lot of different types of user interfaces:
A natural user interface (NUI) is the common parlance used by designers and developers of human-machine interfaces to refer to a user interface ...
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Merge [maps], [map], [map-ui] tags?
I'm not sure if there is any meaningful difference between the questions tagged maps, map, or map-ui.
Might we decide which is the canonical tag and merge the other two under that?
map has the most ...
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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 older-...
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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 (https://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 to sell people on ...
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