links for 2007-05-23

Orienteering vs. teleporting / nForm / Blog

We often use the fuzzy terms "browsing" and "searching" to describe people's information seeking behavious. A recent CHI paper suggests two better metaphors: "orienteering" and "teleporting."

(tags: ia design navigation search research)

Posted by Gene Smith on May 23, 2007

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Posted by Gene Smith on May 23, 2007. Before this there was links for 2007-05-22. Next up is links for 2007-05-31.

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Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. He writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. More >

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