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The goal of this part of the interface is to facilitate the reading of feed items. We picked a vertical feed format over one item per page or horizontal swiping for external consistency with other news feeds. We also chose this format because it allows users to skim many items quickly. Items are automatically marked read as the user scrolls down the feed page. The user can save items for later reading by hitting the item's save button. Hubbub pulls live data from four sources: Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and Imgur.
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Tagging/Saving
The goal of this essential task the tag menu is to give help users a way to manage their items through via categorization and saving. Users . The goal of the save button is to give users a way to save items for later reading by hitting the save button, and optionally tag items to make them easier to search for.. Saving and tagging together comprise one of our essential tasks and provide better usability than the functionality implemented in our prototypes.
Users Hubbub provides an interface for users to select tags from a list, and also create new tags to add to the list. Tags are persisted in the back-end using a database. We considered an alternative approach that involved dragging tags directly onto items in the feed, but we realized that this approach did not meet our screen space constraints. Tags are selected via checkboxes so users can apply multiple tags to the same item at once.
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In GR4, the "Save" button's functionality was not implemented. When we switched to providing live data in the feed, we needed a way to prevent old items from diluting the content on the feed page. After getting feedback from Sacha, we updated the functionality of the "Save" button to keep items in the feed so the user could read them later. Saving and tagging together comprise one of our essential tasks and provide better usability than the prototypes.
Filtering
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