InformationForaging

Context : UsabilityStuff

JakobNielsen on : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030630.html

Danger of Deceivingly Strong Information Scent : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040802.html

: (if the user thinks, from the cues, that she should have found the right info in location X, and didn't, she concludes it isn't on the site, rather than that it is on the site but somewhere else.)

: But cross-references only work if the see-also link has good information scent.

See also :

• SteveKrug

• TheCityAsInformationSystem posits people as information foraging in their everyday movements around the city.