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Card Sorting Guide

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Guides you through running open and closed card sorting exercises to inform information architecture. Covers participant recruitment, exercise setup, analysis methods, and applying results to navigation design.

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Card Sorting Guide

Run card sorting exercises to build user-centered information architecture.

Usage

Describe your content to get a card sorting exercise plan.

Examples

  • "Set up an open card sort for our help center articles"
  • "Run a closed card sort to validate our new navigation"
  • "Analyze card sorting results and create category recommendations"

Guidelines

  • Use open card sort for discovery, closed for validation
  • Recruit 15-20 participants for statistically useful results
  • Write card labels that are clear and unambiguous
  • Analyze with similarity matrices and dendrograms
  • Combine with tree testing to validate the resulting IA