govau / design-system-components

🛠 Component code and tests for the Australian Government design system
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Discussion: Tags may look clickable? #864

Open sukhrajghuman opened 5 years ago

sukhrajghuman commented 5 years ago

Right now tags has two implementations: tags with links and tags without links.

From some feedback from usability testing on the marketplace sellers page, it appeared to the user that the tags were clickable.

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This is an interesting point of discussion. From my experience, whenever I have seen tags, especially in the context of search, they are clickable? Stack overflow is a simple example that comes to mind:

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gordongrace commented 5 years ago

From the introductory paragraph on the documentation page (emphasis added):

They are added to a web page, an asset or other content to help users search for and find related content quickly and easily.

More specific questions: 1) What would an unlinked list of tags provide a user that isn't able to be delivered via non-clickable metadata-style displays? 2) The visual representation of linked and non-linked tags appears identical. Is there a risk of introducing confusion through inconsistent behaviours?