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Card Sorting

Designing Usable Categories

Card Sorting

Card sorting software tools

Wondering what tools are available to conduct card sorts? Have a look at these:

  • Optimal Sort - Online card sorting tool. Open and closed sort, with a range of analysis options (including my analysis spreadsheet)

  • Websort - Online card sorting tool with open and closed sort options. Check out the beta version for enhanced sorting and better analysis options.

  • SynCaps - Windows processing and analysis software for card sorts

  • XSort - Card sorting software for Mac. Free!

  • UXsort - Card sorting software

Related tools

You may also be interested in the following tools, not for card sorting but for testing your draft information architecture or navigation design:

  • Treejack: Test a draft information architecture
  • Chalkmark: Test draft page layouts
  • PlainFrame: Test a draft information architecture
  • Naview: Test a draft information architecture
  • C-inspector: Test a draft information architecture

Comments

I would like to add our Naview service to the Related tools list. Naview helps you create easier navigations through prototyping and testing.

Information architects may also be interested in NIST's WebCAT category analysis tool.

Cheers, Jussi

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Jussi Pasanen | Volkside | http://www.volkside.com/contact/
Interaction and Information Design, User Experience and Usability

I would like to add Simple Card Sort to your list of online card sorting tools. It features both open and closed card sorting and provides a variety of analysis options.

Another web-based, budget-friendly Remote Card Sorting Tool is available on http://www.usabilitest.com

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