caitlin gannon

Passionate about Passionate Users

I just discovered Creating Passionate Users, a blog/website that explores topics similar to my own interests (cognitive science & usability) but in a much more focused & professional way.
We are all passionate about the brain and metacognition, most especially–how the brain works and how to exploit it for better learning and memory. Oh yeah, and [...]

Wikipedia search is confusing!

I use Wikipedia almost daily, but today this dialog box struck a nerve:

Search? Go? What’s the difference? Why would they make such a simple task so confusing, especially on a site that is otherwise very user-friendly?
Curiosity about such things being part of my job, I tried “Searching” for a term (”latte”) versus “Going” for it [...]