[Sigia-l] Card sort result reports?

[Torrie Hodgson]

Hi Amy,

I rarely use card sorts as a scientific study tool with all the results 
tidily analyzed to the nth degree, though the card sort survey can certainly 
be set up that way. I use it as an early design tool, a distributed 
brainstorm sort of like cluster computing. I also rarely give a direct 
report of the results. I just analyze the results for my own use and 
incorporate my findings into the preliminary designs, and point out where 
the card sort results influenced my design choices as appropriate.

I recently gave a workshop on this kind of card sorting at the annual STC 
conference in Seattle. My slide deck (I know, I know, the evilness of 
PowerPoint) should be available at: 
http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/session.materials.asp. It will be the only 
presentation listed under Hodgson as the presenter.

I also remember reading about card sort results on Jared Spool's usability 
site, including the famous early Sun intranet card sort: 
http://www.useit.com/papers/sunweb/.

The IAWiki page has a lot of nice card sorting information and links to 
additional information: http://iawiki.net/CardSorting.

I hope these links provide at least some of what you're looking for. Don't 
forget to search the SIGIA archives too!

Torrie Hodgson, MLS
Consultant, Sakson & Taylor Consulting
torrieh at sakson.com

>From: "Amy Silvers" <asilvers at vml.com>
>To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: [Sigia-l] Card sort result reports?
>Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:42:20 -0500
>
>Can anyone point me to published (or otherwise available) reports on
>card sort results--specifically open card sorts? I know there have been
>many debates here and elsewhere over the years about the merits and
>perils of card sorting, and I'm not looking to start that discussion up
>again! Rather, I'm interested in how others have presented their
>findings from card sorts. I've checked the archives, and I didn't find
>anything that really fit the bill. Any ideas or info would be very much
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Amy Silvers
>Experience Architect
>VML.com
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