January 25, 2006 11:03 AM
It's been interesting to monitor how del.icio.us users tag the Rosenfeld Media site. As of this writing, the site's home page has been tagged by approximately 80 users. The ten most common tags are:
- 31 books
- 28 usability
- 26 design
- 25 ux
- 12 user_experience
- 10 rosenfeld
- 9 css
- 8 web
- 8 webdesign
- 7 ui
If we focus on the various fields associated with RM, "usability" is the top term, followed closely by "design" and "UX". This isn't especially surprising given the lingering confusion of user experience with usability. (At RM, we see UX as an umbrella concept that encompasses many fields, including usability and design). It's interesting to note that if we combine the synonomous "UX," "user_experience," and "user-experience," they would easily be the top term.
"CSS" is a specific technical term, but it's high on the list, as many developers have tagged the RM site as an example of CSS best practices (although a few of you haven't been happy with our CSS implementation; improvements coming soon.) "Web" and "webdesign" may be ranked high for the same reason as "CSS": users see the site as an example that pertains to their web design work. Or there may be something interesting going here: is UX showing up on web developers' radars?
Other tags for fields that users associate with a UX publisher: "ui" (user interface), "webdev," "ia" (information architecture), "interactiondesign," "information-architecture," "business," and "hci" (human computer interaction).
Finally, it just missed making the top ten, but "inspiration" is #11. We hope we'll be doing things to make that number go up!
Comments
Lou, I can see that you got your "approximately 80" taggers by adding the 66 people from the "http://rosenfeldmedia.com/" delicious link and 13 from the "http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com" link, which gives you 79 people.
66 From http://del.icio.us/url/dc70400a05495fcc34b52629b0e0f40d
13 From http://del.icio.us/url/4ad3d69921a69d055a4158c3600828e3
But, you didn't take the tags from the second link into account.
If you add in these tage you get these results:
1] 36 books
2] 33 usability
3] 32 design
4] 29 ux
5] 13 css
6] 12 user_experience
7] 10 rosenfeld
8] 9 ui
9] 8 web
8 webdesign
8 inspiration
This moves "css" up to 5th place
And "ui" up to 8th place
It also means that "inspiration" has made it onto the chart in joint last place.
Posted by: Chris McEvoy | January 25, 2006 3:40 PM
Chris, you caught me. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point out that discrepancy in my arithmetic (answer=1 comment). Thanks for making it add up; it's inspirational! ;-)
Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld | January 25, 2006 3:45 PM
Hi Lou,
I've been watching, reading, thinking, and writing. I'm working on my proposal now. It shouldn't be too long.
John S. Rhodes
http://webword.com
Posted by: John Rhodes | January 29, 2006 10:43 PM