Despite loads of advances in search technologies, why do people prefer to navigate to their files?
Folder Navigation uses our primitive brain structure like real-world navigation.
Search activates the language processing area of our brain.
Through millions of years, our brain has been developped to navigate in the physical world and should be re-used for the digital realm. Language processing area should be freed-up for other tasks than finding files.
Daniel Kahneman describes two brain systems: System 1 and System 2.
These systems show how our thinking shifts between quick, intuitive responses and slower, analytical reasoning depending on the situation.