[Sigia-l] Online card sorting tool WebSort

[Eric Scheid]

On 5/3/04 7:43 PM, "Marcel van Mackelenbergh"
<marcelvanmackelenbergh at home.nl> wrote:

> (either open: people write names on the cards, or closed: people sort
> cards that have something written upon)

huh??

That's a new definition of open vs closed card sorting I've not seen before.

A short while back I trawled through hundreds of google links researching
the difference between open and closed, and with nary an exception (that I
remember) the distinction was:

    open card sort =
        cards (pre-written) get sorted into piles of the
        user's making, as many as they want, and optionally
        at the end the user gets to name those piles

    closed card sort =
        cards (pre-written) get sorted into a pre-determined
        set of piles, already named.

More at the IAwiki:

    http://IAwiki.net/ClosedCardSort

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