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...because non-graphical user interface questions like "how can I make my bank's phone service maze of options less homicide-inducing" belong on UX.SE

I reckon user-interface should point to GUI design. Let's also merge in any other UI/UX tags while we're at it, and add something like:

For questions about UI or UX design that are not related to designing graphics, please ask at http://ux.stackexchange.com

How do we make it happen?

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    I agree with this
    – DA01
    May 26 '15 at 17:27
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Done!

We can always make improvements, but so far we have:

Feel free to suggest changes!

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Good catch. If you have 5 or more rep in the tag, have at it yourself: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms.

In short, you can propose synonyms when you have a total of 5 rep in the tag you propose a synonym for, and your total rep is at least 2,500. Everyone with 5+ total rep in the tag gets to vote, and with 4 votes, the proposal is accepted.

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  • Just tried, it gave a weird error message "Reverse synonym user-interface already proposed on the tag ui". No idea what a reverse synonym is or why that would block this. Looks like we have a small heap of UI and UX related tags though... Can someone who understands the system please sort it out...
    – user56reinstatemonica8
    May 28 '15 at 9:19
  • @user568458 user-interface is the current catch-all for ui and interface. Could you try and propose to merge gui-design into user-interface instead of the other way around? Or is that what you did?
    – Vincent
    May 28 '15 at 10:36
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    Just thinking out loud here, but would "interface design" be a more self-explanatory term? I wonder if "user-interface" (correct as it is) is clear enough, or if it's too technical.
    – Yisela
    May 28 '15 at 10:49
  • I second any notion by our dictatrix @Yisela :)
    – Vincent
    May 28 '15 at 10:57
  • Yeah "interface design" is an actual branch of design so that make sense. So can someone who knows what they're doing create interface design, include the 'when to use UX.SE instead' comment in the summary, and merge everything else into it?
    – user56reinstatemonica8
    May 28 '15 at 11:27
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    Done! I merged user-interface and ui into interface-design. I didn't touch GUI design. Should we also merge / "synonymize" it?
    – Yisela
    May 28 '15 at 12:02

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