[spam] RE: [Sigia-l] Online card sorting tool WebSort

[Victoria Hodgson]

My favorite ever card sort response:

A long-time mainframe software engineer took about 10 seconds to deal the 40 
cards into two piles. He then pointed to each pile in turn and said, "These 
are things I care about, and these are [expletive deleted]."

His assessment was thoroughly correct, but nearly entirely useless for my 
purposes. *grin*

After an hour and a hoagie sandwich, I had a much better sort from him 
complete with five categories (all of which could be mentioned in polite 
company.)

"Right" is so subjective.

Torrie Hodgson, MLS

>From: "Donna Maurer" <donna at maadmob.net>
>To: sigia-l at asis.org
>Subject: [spam] RE: [Sigia-l] Online card sorting tool WebSort
>
>But we're not asking users to come up with the 'right' categories. We
>should be asking them to describe why they have put things together
>in a group so that we can understand the underlying patterns and
>ideas.
>
>Donna
>
>On 6 Mar 2004 at 8:15, Marcel van Mackelenbergh wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> >
> > Whenever we create a category we should make sure people immediately
> > understand what is meant with it. For example, "car" is clear,
> > "vehicle" is less clear but also "Goldwing Valkyrie" is less clear.
> > So "clearness" is not about whether it is more or less concrete but
> > it is about understanding. Understanding or "What is clear?" of
> > course depends on your target audience.
> >
> > The point I tried to make is that creating metadata is a skill,
> > which is not learned right away. I find it very hard to come up with
> > the right categories and I am still improving myself. How can we ask
> > people, who understand less about metadata, to come up with the
> > right categories? Shouldn't we analyze our target audience, come up
> > with good requirements and then test it on our target audience?
> >
> > Cu
> >
> > Marcel
>
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