I’ve been thinking a lot recently about doing more with the tags on this blog.
Tags are the keywords that I assign to every post on this blog. Clicking on a tag pulls up all other posts related to that tag.
For a long time, I’ve imagined this blog as a compendium—a collection of thoughts and ideas gathered over time. Eventually, I knew I’d need a way to find what was in there. Tags seemed like the perfect tool, both for me and for readers who might want to explore particular themes.
Sure, you can use search functions or AI to uncover related themes, but tags are something I write myself. They require thought, and that process of thinking helps organise ideas.
That said, I’ve never really done much with my tags. But as I’ve increased my writing output in recent months, I’m finding they’re starting to come into their own—helping me see emerging themes in the work.
So, I’ve had an idea: create a Feature Tag—a way to spotlight a particular theme each week. This will give both me and readers the chance to discover related posts.
This week’s Feature Tag is ‘DesignBrief.’
Under this tag, you’ll find posts about:
- Design versus shopping,
- Finding the disputable brief in your project,
- And a post from 2020 about unreliable briefs—whatever they were!