[Neasis-l] Simmons GSLIS CE Workshop: Card Sorting A-Z at GSLIS West on March 22nd

[GSLIS CE2]

Card Sorting A–Z
Saturday, March 22, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
GSLIS West, Mt. Holyoke Campus
Room: Shattuck 203
Cost: $160

Web users will spend an average of 8-10 seconds and 3 clicks on your 
website looking for what they need before they get frustrated and click 
away. Whether you are developing a new website or redesigning an 
existing one, it is imperative to determine a navigational structure and 
taxonomy which will be intuitive and usable for your user community. 
Card sorting is a technique used in the Information Architecture field 
to determine a classification scheme that speaks to your user 
population. Discover how to use this quick and inexpensive technique to 
understand how your users think about your website and its content. 
Learn how to run both an open and a closed card sort, analyze the 
results, and make recommendations based on your data. This workshop will 
explore both online and offline card-sorting techniques as well as 
analysis software. Make sure your information is findable and increase 
usability by involving your users in the process of designing your 
website – they will thank you for it!

Faculty: Ellyssa Kroski, Reference Librarian at Columbia University, 
author of the blog "InfoTangleWeb" and book "Web 2.0 for Librarians and 
Information Professionals" (2007); ellyssakroski at yahoo.com

For more information see 
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/ or contact 
gslisce at simmons.edu

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Kris Liberman
Program Manager
Simmons GSLIS CE
T - 617-521-2803
F - 617-521-3192
gslisce at simmons.edu
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/