UX Research Methods: Card Sorting
41mIntermediate2017-05-02
Authors

Amanda Stockwell
President of Stockwell Strategy
Course details
Get an in-depth introduction to card sorting, a UX research technique that helps you understand how users categorize information. By using card sort results to inform your designs, you can create websites or products that are intuitive and easy to navigate. In this course, Amanda Stockwell helps you grasp the fundamentals of planning, executing, and analyzing a card sort. After providing an overview of this UX research technique and going into the different types of card sorting, Amanda shows how to prepare your content to ensure that you get the best card sort results. She also covers finding, selecting, and screening participants, running sessions, analyzing data, and sharing your results.
Learning objectives
What's card sorting?
Open, closed, and hybrid card sorts
Card planning
Category planning
Finding, selecting, and screening participants
Scheduling and incentivizing participants
Running sessions
Learning objectives
What's card sorting?
Open, closed, and hybrid card sorts
Card planning
Category planning
Finding, selecting, and screening participants
Scheduling and incentivizing participants
Running sessions
Skills covered
Information ArchitectureUser ResearchUX DesignUser ExperienceWeb Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Card Sort Overview
- 03 - What is card sorting
- 04 - Card sorting uses
- 05 - Types of card sorting
- 06 - Open, closed, and hybrid card sorts
- 07 - Remote vs. in-person card sorts
2. Content Preparation
- 08 - Card planning
- 09 - Category planning
- 10 - How many cards and users
3. Study Logistics
- 11 - Finding, selecting, and screening participants
- 12 - Scheduling and incentivizing participants
- 13 - Running sessions
4. Data Analysis and Summary
- 14 - Organizing and analyzing data
- 15 - Interpreting the results
- 16 - Tree test planning
- 17 - Sharing results
Conclusion
- 18 - Next steps
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