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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
If you have a bunch of things to be sorted and you want to figure out how most people will respond to the structure of your ordering system there’s a basic method you might want to check out. Its called Card Sorting and can be a handy tool in information architecture or information design (depending on your terminology). The benefit of using this technique is it gives a broad and fast guide to how you might structure information – perhaps your navigation – and you don’t need to be tied down to it entirely. Of course there are other factors involved. But this gives you a really good idea very cheaply. So how do you go about performing a Card Sort?
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