Card Sorting - Boltmade Session

Boltmade Session on Card Sorting - April 7th, 2016.

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1. sessions Sorting Yang Chen & Kim Tee Card
4. What is Card Sorting? Card sorting is a design research tool for increasing a system’s findability. The process involves organizing and categorizing a series of cards into groups that make sense.
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7. Why Card Sorting? Simple & Effective
8. How People Think Navigation Structure Card Sorting • IA (Information Architecture) • What to put on the homepage • Number of categories • Category names • Nature of groups • User mental models
9. Activity #1: Museum Sort Do the sort in groups of 3 or 4 (20 minutes) Input the results into spreadsheet (5 minutes) Visit other groups + discuss (5 minutes)
10. Uploading Results 1. Go to: https://goo.gl/KTnxKK 2. Go to your group’s sheet (Group 1 = Sort1) 3. Input the category name and card # (on the back of each card) for each card, one per row 4. The card name will automatically fill in!
11. Activity #1: Museum Sort Debrief
12. After the sort What did participants understand well/not well? Content that belongs in more than one area? How do different types of users see content differently? Alternate paths to content?
13. Activity #2: Banff Sort Do the sort individually (10 minutes) Link: http://goo.gl/YqeOQw
14. Activity #2: Banff Sort Debrief
15. Analysis Qualitative & Quantitative
16. Card Sort: Many Ways Open vs. Closed In-Person vs. Online Group vs. Individual
17. So…what now?
19. How People Think Navigation Structure Card Sorting • IA (Information Architecture) • What to put on the homepage • Number of categories • Category names • Nature of groups • User mental model Surveys Field Research Interviews Usability Tests Customer Feedback Analytics Focus Groups
20. Sorting vs. Finding Content-based vs. Task-based
22. Tips for your own sort • Select content that is consistent • 30-60 cards is good, but more/less is also good • Word content so it is not leading • Select content that is meaningful • Recruit appropriate user base if possible • Let users focus on grouping, not designing • 5+ sorts… • Artefact-ing over artefacts
23. Further Reading • Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories by Donna Spencer • Analysis Spreadsheet: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/card- sorting/#resources • Nielsen/Norman Group (https://www.nngroup.com) • Usability.gov (http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and- tools/methods/card-sorting.html) • http://boxesandarrows.com/card-sorting-a-definitive- guide/
24. sessions Sorting Yang Chen & Kim Tee Card