[Sigia-l] My card sorting book is underway!

Tue Apr 25 10:14:47 EDT 2006

It's just a tool like every other tool or technique we care to mention. Rely
on any one tool beyond its natural ability to be useful and you're stuffed.

The largest open card sort I've ever done was to get some insight into how
Vodafone should group their embedded phone client's handset functions on the
default icon grid. The analysis (as much qualitative as quantitative) led to
some pretty good design directions. We *may* have been able to get there
without the help of a card sort, but I doubt we would have had our
conclusions taken as seriously without the backup the card sort provided.

I don't see how a task-driven flow would have helped with this much. The
task is to configure Bluetooth settings on your phone - where do you go to
do that?

-----Original Message-----
From: Listera [mailto:listera at rcn.com]
Sent: 24 April 2006 22:19
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Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] My card sorting book is underway!

Stewart Dean:

> But, the question remains, why do so many people use it.

"Best practice."

In the age of dynamic applications (vs. page-based, form-driven,
navigation-heavy web *sites*), widgets, task-driven flows, small services
for mobiles, etc., it's a bit of an anachronism.

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Ziya

Usability >  Simplify the Solution
Design >  Simplify the Problem

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