A list of resources and articles about card sorting

Articles

• 2009. Raena Jackson Armitage. Play your cards right: Run your first card sort. Sitepoint
• 2009. Jakob Nielsen. Card Sorting: Pushing users beyond terminology matches. Alertbox
• 2009. Jed Wood (Websort). Before card sorting: User input on labels
• 2009. Volkside Poster: Card sorting guidelines for participants
• 2008. Tim Aidlin. Benefits of card sorting
• 2008. Timothy Keirnan. DC42a Wordcast: Card sort
• 2007. Sam Ng. Card sorting: Mistakes made and lessons learned. UX Matters
• 2007. Ruth Stalker-Firth. Anyone for a game of cards. Digital Web Magazine
• 2005. Rashmi Sinha. Beyond cardsorting: Free-listing methods to explore user categorizations
• 2005. Rashmi Sinha. Card Sorting Analysis: One size fits all approach.
• 2005. Rashmi Sinha. Should you finalize site structure based on card-sorting?
• 2005. Rashmi Sinha. Tag Sorting: Another tool in an information architect's toolbox.
• 2004. Mark Boulton. Card sorting. Part 1
• 2004. Mark Boulton. Card sorting. Part 2 - Facilitation
• 2004. Mark Boulton. Card sorting. Part 3 - Analysis and reporting
• 2004. Donna Maurer and Todd Warfel. Card sorting: A definitive guide. Boxes and Arrows
• 2004. Jakob Nielsen. Card Sorting: How many users to test
• 2003. Joe Lamantia. Analyzing card sort results with a spreadsheet template. Boxes and Arrows

Research papers

• Berndtsson, J. (1999). Designing an Intranet from Scratch to Sketch: Experiences from Techniques used in the IDEnet Project. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 2 - Volume 2 (pp. 2019 ): IEEE Computer Society.
• Deibel, K., Anderson, R., & Anderson, R. (2005). Using edit distance to analyze card sorts. Expert Systems, 22(3), 129-138.
• Dong, J., Martin, S., & Waldo, P. (2001). A user input and analysis tool for information architecture. Paper presented at the CHI '01 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, Seattle, Washington.
• Fincher, S., & Tenenberg, J. (2005). Making sense of card sorting data. Expert Systems, 22(3), 89-93.
• Gerrard, S., & Dickinson, J. (2005). Women's working wardrobes: a study using card sorts. Expert Systems, 22(3), 108-114.
• Martine, G., & Rugg, G. (2005). That site looks 88.46 familiar: quantifying similarity of Web page design. Expert Systems, 22(3), 115-120.
• Rugg, G., & Mcgeorge, P. (2005). The sorting techniques: a tutorial paper on card sorts, picture sorts and item sorts. Expert Systems, 22(3), 94-107.
• Expert Systems (2005). Special issue on Card Sorting. Expert Systems, 22(3), 89-172.
• Tullis, T., & Wood, L. (2004, June 7-11). How Many Users Are Enough for a Card-Sorting Study? Paper presented at the Proceedings UPA'2004, Minneapolis, MN.
• Zavod, M. J., Rickert, D. E., & Brown, S. H. (2002). The automated card-sort as an interface design tool: a comparison of products. Paper presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD; USA.

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