New articles and resources

Posted by Donna Spencer on May 16, 2012

It's been a while since I had a good look around for new articles on card sorting. Here's some recent ones.

Thorough overviews

• Card sorting (Interaction-Design.org)
• Card sorting (Usability Body of Knowledge)

Detailed examination of one aspect

• Online or offline card sorting? (Optimal Workshop)
• Online card sorting - even better than the real thing? (UX for the masses)
• Card sorting: online versus offline (Step Two Designs)
• Open card sort analysis 101 (UX Booth)

Short overviews

• 10 things to know about card sorting (Measuring Usability)
• How to know what to put where: card sorting (Jonathan Melhuish): A quick video overview
• Card sorting (ZURBword)

Using the basic technique for different things

• Prioritization card sort (Good Kickoff Meetings)
• Repeated card sorting (100 user experience (UX) design and evaluation methods for your toolkit)
• Why card sorting loves tree testing (and why tree testing feels it too) (Global User Research)
• A modified delphi approach to a new card sorting methodology (Celeste Lyn Paul)

Card sorting doesn't cut the custard

Posted by Donna Spencer on August 20, 2009

Here's a really good post from Zef Fugaz called Card sorting doesn't cut the custard, where he talks about how we should make sure information is accessible in more than one way and how card sorting seems to encourage just one way.

He's right about making information available in more than one way, but wrong in that card sorting, done well, can help identify the many ways, not just one single way.

Good comments at the end too.