[Sigia-l] Replacement for EZSort

[Trent Mankelow]

Hi everyone. I'm keen to get people's feedback about an idea for a software tool that we want to write to replace EZSort. We have just completed a reasonably large card sorting exercise (125 cards, 84 participants in 29 groups) and analysed the results using EZSort. We encountered all the usual problems - the application crashing, accidentally doing something wrong and having to restart all over again, etc. We wasted enough time on this project to make us seriously start thinking about paying someone to help us build an alternative. Even creating an equivalent to EZSort that is a bit more user friendly and robust would be better than the status quo. Then of course we got to thinking. What about better ways to visualise the results of the cluster analysis? What about other ways to pick up on patterns of how users sort the cards?

So anyway, figuring that we could actually create something pretty cool, I thought it would be a good idea to go out to the community to see what you all think.

* Is it worthwhile building a replacement?
* What kind of features would you like to see in a new card sorting analysis tool?
* What would you expect to pay for a tool like this?

Thanks for your help,
Trent Mankelow

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