I worked on a project similar to your situation. We did some research and here's one example we found. http://www.gettyimages.com/Catalyst/Default.aspx.
We thought our users were not tech savvy enough to use a tag cloud as a primary navigation, so we visually designed a global navigation as our top categories, but in reality it's just a group of tag words. When a top category tag is hovered on the navigation, a tag cloud appears showing only the most popular tags associated with the top category tag. If a sub tag is clicked, a search results page is populated with content filtered by the top category tag and the sub tag. On the search results page, we provided another tag cloud as a page navigation to allow the user to filter deeper by selecting another tag or they can remove any of the selected tags to widen the search. We performed a usability test on a group of people and our feedback was positive. Unfortunately, the site is not complete so I can not share but the prototype was pretty cool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40972 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
