Questions tagged [card-sorting]
Card sorting is a simple technique for discovering the groups or categories of a content set.
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Card sorting for deep and narrow IA
Our menu is getting too big and we want to explore other ways to organize the content. For that reason we're planning an Open card sorting with users.
I'm struggling to find the topics/cards because ...
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Prioritizing Information User Testing
We have a lot of information on our product's detail page.
I want to conduct user testing to learn from the users how they would prioritize and rank the information. I am considering using an ...
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Card sorting exercise for a complex platform that is more focused on actions than information
I am working on a platform that has very repetitive information but very different actions in different modules.
Like:
So there are multiple modules with similar clients but different actions module-...
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Card sorting: Use labels, or examples?
When running a card sorting exercise, would one receive better feedback by asking participants to group cards showing similar labels, or similar examples? I'm seeing both recommended. When using ...
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When is the best time to conduct a card sorting exercise?
When is the proper time to conduct card sorting in the process of designing information architecture? Is it better to do this before attempting to do any design on the IA, or afterward (so as to ...
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Suggested number of groups in open card sorting
I'm going to use OptimalWorkshop for conduct an open card sorting exercises (unmoderated) with about 35 cards. I will recruit about 40 participants.
Do I need to constrain the number of groupings ...
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Different ways to Card-Sorting Audit
I am struggling with a card sorting preparation. We want to improve the AI of an web applications and right now, I'm doing the audit of it. However, the application doesn't have so many pages or ...
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How do I create useful categories from meaningless labels?
I work for a company that manufactures electronic parts. Over the last 20 years, the company has developed more and more software. Now we have well over 50,000 pieces of software that customers cannot ...
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Syncronize vertical list using tags and connections
My goal is to create a three vertical lists where user can filter them using tags and a search bar, move elements between them using drag and drop (similar to trello) and display explicit connections ...
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User testing of multi dimensional information architecture
i'm working on a project where I have to test an information architecture. This kind of IA is multidimensional. So you can access to the same content through several path. Each content is tagged with ...
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Card-Sorting in Mobile App
The user needs to order a stack of cards, let's say each one representing a task. Let's assume the user has already ordered a set of tasks and now he needs to place a new one within the stack at the ...
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Card Sorting - Huge Company
We're going to redesign the company's website that I work on but I have a lot of menus and different services to organize
We offer all these kind of services:
Education
Short-Term Courses, ...
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Card sorting with user who have never seen your product before
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I've invited potential users to come in and look at our portal. These people only know what we do, but have never seen the UI of our portal. We will tell them about what we do and after that ...
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Best order of user research
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I'm planning on doing user testing and research to help improve the UI and UX of our portal/website.There are a lot tools to help improve your product. Think of tools like card sorting, user ...
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Table converted to Card Stack - sort options
We are revamping the look & feel of our website (and making it more mobile friendly while we're at it), which includes converting a few tables to a single-column card stack. Now, there is debate ...
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Card-Sorting tool that allows making cards categories
I am surprised that none of the many tools I just tested offers this functionality.
See this image for comprehension:
The user is supposed to be able to make any of the cards a category.
Anyone have ...
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Number of groups in card sorting
I have to moderate card sorting session. Our team wants to reorganize navigation in account of financial company's client where he can see information about products and services he uses, conduct ...
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Name of a card sorting technique that lets people sort only their favorite items?
I'm working on a software tool that one of my clients uses on their intranet. We are planning to run a card sort study.
Let's say the top 2 levels of their existing IA look like this:
Menu item 1
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How to evaluate alternative ways people find content in a social/mobile driven news environment
It will be quite straight froward to evaluate desktop users' behaviour by using card sorting session.
Shall I stick with card sort?
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What's the difference between card sorting and affinity diagramming?
I understand how card sorting and affinity diagramming work (both are fairly well documented online), but they seem so similar that I'm not sure what the difference between the two is, if any?
Are ...
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What kind of card sorting is the best?
I have an online grocery website, it includes different categories and subcategories, I want to test the the usability of categories tree, in this case closed card sorting or open card sorting is the ...
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Does mixing actions in a card feed confuse users?
Imagine a card-style feed where users can only see one card at a time. Each card has at least two calls to action. Most cards are presented in a y/n format where swiping right means "yes" and swiping ...
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How to prevent too generic categorisation in card sorting
I'm doing a card sorting for an ecommerce of beauty and wellness products and services. I prepared a list of cards which are not too specific and not too generic. For example, I have some cards like - ...
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Labels for cards in card sorting session
I'm working on a redesign of an ecommerce. Right now I'm thinking about IA.
I thought it could be a good idea to run a Card sorting session to discover what are the best labels to use and how to ...
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Using QR codes to record results of card sorting exercise
I have seen that OptimalSort gives an option to add barcodes to cards. However, this requires paying for OptimalSort and purchasing a barcode scanner. There are many free apps for reading QR codes.
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Best UX approach to redesign the information architecture of a website?
I'm going to get started on a new project mainly focused on information architecture. The IA of the site I'll work on is extremely messy, complicated and not logical at all. We need to completely ...
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Card Sort Analysis using Excel (Agreement and Disagreement Matrices)
I'm trying to find way to tabulate the results of an open card sorting exercise. We have about 50 cards total and need to pair that down so I'm hoping to crunch the numbers in excel to see where ...
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How to determine categorization for a large ecommerce catalogue
I have an existing online catalogue of more than 300 services to provide improvement to. One of the common complaints anecdotally is around the current navigation, that the labeling isn't clear and ...
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Grouping participants in a card sort analysis?
Instead of having one large subject pool of card sorting participants, has anyone ever tried segmenting their participants with a supplemental survey to define which persona they may fall into? If so, ...
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How many items is too many for a card sort?
I'm looking to run a card sort to help gain understanding of how people would group & categorise courses. I currently have a list of 142 courses. I'm worried that the list is too long and ...
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What type of card sorting exercise can I use?
Let's say that I'm trying to determine how many levels deep I should make my filtering tool in my search screen for a set of data. I've got meta for my data set that goes 10-15 layers deep. I just don'...
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When is the right moment to apply some UI improvements to an old product?
I work for a product where the interface is the same way for more than ten years.
I studied some UX techniques like card sorting and I found it would be a good idea to apply it in this product. The ...
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How can you compare card-sorting results from users that have a linear process to users that have a hierarchy tree process?
I have conducted a few open cardsorting sessions these past weeks. I saw something happen that I haven't seen happening in a cardsorting before and I would like to know how to best analyse these ...
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Quantitative Analysis of Cardsort Data
I'm working on some quantitative analysis procedures for cardsort (rank-ordering) type data. Are there established best practices for something like this? I was thinking cluster analysis, logit ...
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Card sort with 'Don't know' group
I've recently piloted an open card sort, and have had some feedback suggesting that respondents should be told that they can add a 'Don't know' group if they're not sure where to put cards. I'm ...
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Collecting testing recruits without using a recruiting firm
I just started at a small design firm that's branching out into doing some UX and one of the things I'd really like to do is start trying to work simple testing into our workflow (maybe starting with ...
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Appropriate level of granularity in a card sort for a web app
When putting together a card sort for a web application, what level of granularity is appropriate for each card?
For example, is the function "forward an email to a distribution list" granular enough,...
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Card Sorting to determine the correct term
I understand the premise of card sorting and its benefit.
My question, how do you use card sorting to determine the correct term that we want to use on the site.
For example under Media we can have ...
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Derive universal mental model from bunch of user mental models, good practice or not?
If you have a bunch of mental models derived from card sort and user interview data from a single user group, is it okay to attempt to form a universal mental model by looking at patterns in the ...
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Numbering Cards for Card Sorting Excercise
I am going to be conducting various card sorting exercises with a small group soon and I have a question about how to label some of the cards.
I have about 6 that will contain words that I would like ...
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How to validate large-scale IA without skewing data? Crowd-sourced techniques?
I am pitching for a job that requires validation of the information architecture of a very large health and social care website of around 6500 pages.
Here is my approach:
Analyse existing research: ...
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Any value to gathering qualitative data from card sorts?
One of the best tools I've found for card sort experiments seems to be websort, mainly because you can just send out a link for participants to go through the exercise at their own convenience.
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Experience of Card Sorting Tool [closed]
While re-building a website you would probably like to re-design the way content is grouped together according to user preferences. One thing that is very useful is a card-sorting tool which ...
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