(Sorry, this is an old post which is automatically translated from Dutch to (D)English by Google Translate/SDL)
One of the known steps within the usability route is the optimizing of the columns below which the information that on a website is offered falls.
This are vague columns chosen from the business, through which the average visitor and user of the website the terms do not gets, and not knowledge understands where he or they the information from here can get.
There its different techniques this information to group, but a technique that I not yet before saw was the taggen of information and identical tags to use as columns name.
The users use
I aim not on the known [url=http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud]tagclouds[/url] that one uses at to give, which stab words it mostly wanted to be on a site, the most important being or that visitors at their products gave. No, it goes me the taggen of information outside yet during the developing of the website.
An example of how it now done becomes is through the subjects on various cards to write and these cards through users together to let join because they particular joint characteristics contain. As arise there pile up with subjects that one under 1 denominator can bring. However this method has 2 large disadvantages:
1) De user rubricates the cards without that one know on which that choice based is.
2) De head term of the column is not known.
What happen there now will the users when not the cards rubricate, but characterize record immediately the first step documents and thus the references and on the cards? (Already can we the cards actual already behind let, since this on many other manners can).
Characteristics use as a column
When one thus the users characterize write down late, can be collected be looked up they identical characteristics. Because this method with a large group users at the same time done can become will there much similar characteristics forth come and can one easy indicate which core brands it mostly named become.
With these characterize can one then immediately see soft names chosen can become for the column below which the information will fall. Because of this one catches characterize 2 flies in 1 slap, the combining of information with the same and the appointing of the columns of this information.
Google Image Labeler
A comparable step finds place by the labeling of images on Google through use of [url=http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/]de Google Imagelabel tool[/url]. This stiff software let 2 guest users at the same time a photograph see by which they characterize may intypen. As soon as agree characterize can they through to the following plate.
Google has introduced here a game element for something very usefully, namely the labeling of images that they let see in their results. Because several men the same tags give can be at a particular photograph Google the visitors of theirs missing machine better of service. Loan on that it naturally often a tag at a photograph given must become before this tag real as trustworthy tag becomes considering for the concerning photograph.
This everything resembles thus awful my above example information to rubricate on a faster manner than now uses becomes. Do I have self yet no experience with this technique and am about that very aroused curiosity to your opinion or possibly is there someone that this a good idea finds and wants bring this in the practice?
(on this moment can you yet no reaction leave behind, e-mail can well on tim [at] huijbers. com)
