http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Usability/Methods/Card-Sorting A listing of the most recently indexed works about Articles and Usability and Methods and Card Sorting in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Usability/Methods/Card-Sorting http://tc.eserver.org/33137.html http://tc.eserver.org/33137.html This is a method for discovering the latent structure in an unsorted list of statements or ideas. The investigator writes each statement on a small index card and requests six or more informants to sort these cards into groups or clusters, working on their own. The results of the individual sorts are then combined and if necessary analysed statistically. http://tc.eserver.org/32805.html http://tc.eserver.org/32805.html This article provides general guidelines for card sorting analysis and interpretation. Tips include how to deal with dual group membership, individual differences, effects of semantic clustering, and items in a miscellaneous group. http://tc.eserver.org/29928.html http://tc.eserver.org/29928.html Card sorting is a simple and effective method with which most of us are familiar. There are already some excellent resources on how to run a card sort and why you should do card sorting. This article, on the other hand, is a frank discussion of the lessons I've learned from running numerous card sorts over the years. By sharing these lessons learned along the way, I hope to enable others to dodge similar potholes when they venture down the card sorting path. http://tc.eserver.org/28585.html http://tc.eserver.org/28585.html World Usability Day has come and gone for 2006, and the results of the global online card sort are in. About five hundred people in 19 or 20 countries participated in the exercise. Find out what's next. http://tc.eserver.org/28271.html http://tc.eserver.org/28271.html Card sorting is often inexpensive, quick, and easy. Learn when to use this method and how to perform a card sort of your own within your company. http://tc.eserver.org/24755.html http://tc.eserver.org/24755.html A summary of how IBM's USort/EzCalc and CardZort worked for results entry and analysis. http://tc.eserver.org/24468.html http://tc.eserver.org/24468.html Testing ever-more users in card sorting has diminishing returns, but you should still use three times more participants than you would in traditional usability tests. http://tc.eserver.org/22482.html http://tc.eserver.org/22482.html Card sorting is a simple user-centered technique for obtaining insight into the structure of a site. But is it really so simple? This definitive guide to card sorting includes detailed instructions on how to execute and analyze a sort, plus helpful hints to improve your sorts. It is the first in a series of articles about card sorting. http://tc.eserver.org/22076.html http://tc.eserver.org/22076.html At the beginning of any information design exercise, it is normal to be confronted by a very long list of potential subjects to include. The challenge is to organise this information in a way that is useful and meaningful for the users of the system. A card sorting session can go a long way towards resolving this problem. http://tc.eserver.org/21396.html http://tc.eserver.org/21396.html This article explains how to quickly derive easily-read, quantitative results from a card-sort activity by entering data into a spreadsheet template that is adaptable to any set of cards and categories. http://tc.eserver.org/21279.html http://tc.eserver.org/21279.html We hear and talk a lot about card sorting in various forms, and how it can be used as input on a hierarchy or classification system (or a taxonomy, if you like more technical words). We hear that we should test our hierarchies, but we don’t talk about how.