#information foraging

Web Design and Usability

I set up during our PDL class three mastery journey goals for this class: improve my technical and conceptual knowledge in web design, Create a usability checklist  to reach marketing goals, and Understand relationship between Web design and influence of search  engines. This class has truly helped me to reach these goals through its contents, the different weekly assignments and discussions, and the insights given by the Professor. I have discovered so many new concepts in web design I was not aware of prior this class such as: findability, information scent, information foraging, etc. These concepts have allowed me to reach my first goal of improving my technical and conceptual knowledge in web design. I have performed the usability test of a website, the analysis of a homepage, the usability and information of the main navigation of a website, the evaluation of different inner websites of a site. These different activities allowed me to know what items I should add while creating my usability check list to reach the marketing goals of any campaign I will set up in the future.  I learned that you can have a great website with epic content, but if users and search engines cannot find that content, it will ne difficult for the company to get traffic, convert visitors to customers, and then make a sale. Usability allows visitors to easily navigate through your website, and accomplish their goals. Findability allows your web team to create a site that can be easily found both by users and search engines. Knowing how these concepts work allowed me to reach my third goal which was to understand the relationship between web design and influence of search engines.

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Canada Is Experimenting on Intelligence Analysts to Beat ‘Information Overload’ (motherboard)

 On the battlefield, shoddy intelligence means innocent people die. To make its intelligence analysts more effective, the Canadian government is experimenting on them by treating these highly trained personnel like animals. Written by JORDAN PEARSON

No, really, intelligence analysts aren’t so different from wild animals, and that’s actually the point. Like hungry little foxes, they go…

The main idea of the Information Foraging is based on the concept of information as food: as there is a physiological need for food that leads to his research, collection and assimilation, so these steps can be found and analyzed within the research of information.

Men need to feed the mind with information and seek it to assimilate: the fundamental assumptions within the theory of Pirolli and Stuart are the concepts of Information Scent of Information and Snacking.

Information Scent is the ability to asset what are the best places to retrieve information of interest

Information Snack is defined as the tendency to try to understand the value of information