Talk:Places:User Interface/Tagging a Page

Whoa there horsey. I was with you right up to the end when I saw the check boxes. If I'm tagging a page I want it to be quick and painless. I want to clumsily click the tags I see and move on. The final screen indicates that I have to click those little check boxes. I'd much rather click the big ole word than the check box. It's possible the thinking is that simply clicking the word will check the box, but the UI doesn't indicate this. One thing that may help is by highlighting on mouse hover. This will give the user the indication that something will happen now that the cursor is over the tag. If there were a different and more universally recognizable way of indicating that an item is selected I would suggest it (though none come to mind immediately). For instance, getting rid of the checkbox and making the tags depressed like buttons (when selected) would eliminate the thinking that the user needs to click on the small area of the checkbox as well as indicate which has been selected and not selected. However, I don't know if it would be readily apparent to most users what is going on in the list.