[Sigia-l] validating an achitecture?

[Donna Maurer]

I'm hoping to do something like this soonish as I feel that closed card sorts (the way 
they are commonly performed to validate an IA) are an invalid methodology (I think 
that information seeking and categorisation are very different from a cognitive 
perspective), but I have never heard of anyone checking.

You could also look at this which has some results from a bunch of techniques:

http://iasummit.org/2006/files/43_Presentation_Desc.ppt

Otherwise, I don't think there is any solidly assessed technique.

Donna

On 1 Apr 2006 at 15:43, Eric Scheid wrote:

> I'd like to see the results of a Card Based Classification Evaluation [2]
> compared against the results of a Closed Card Sort, and both interpreted in
> light of the results of a Category Agreement Analysis [3]. Are there
> existing heuristics for validating site architecture? Apart from the
> abominable three click rule [4] of course! What other methods would you
> suggest?
> 
> e.

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