Glenn JonesUXCampBrighton – Brighton, UK1 Oct 2011

Choosing the Right Words – Web Intents

Visual overload

Hundreds of services – no choice

<intent action="http://webintents.org/share" type="text/uri-list" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet" title="Tweet link" />

Registering your service

Also links together application features and data

Choosing the Right Verbs

A interesting UX problem to workshop

Taking on brand backed terms

Grouping the right services under a single verb

Paul Kinlan

• Discover – query external APIs and services • Share – share data from the page• Edit – edit data from the page• View – view data in another application• Pick – pick files from a service • Subscribe – subscribing to data from the page• Save – save data to another application

The above descriptions are my interpretation, please read the original text http://webintents.org/

Tantek Çelik and Erin Richey

• Later – to read this later• Save – to collect and categorize • Props – to like, praise or favourite• Share – to pass on to friends• Follow – to hear more from this author/site

The above descriptions are my interpretation, please read the original text http://tantek.com/2011/220/b1/web-actions-a-new-building-block

Activitystream Verbs• Add • Cancel • Checkin • Delete • Favorite • Follow • Give • Ignore • Invite • Join

• Leave • Like • Make-friend • Play • Receive • Remove • Remove-friend • Request-friend • RSVP-maybe • RSVP-no

• RSVP-yes• Save• Share • Stop-following • Tag • Unfavorite • Unlike • Unsave • Update

http://activitystrea.ms/head/activity-schema.html