[Sigia-l] Simmons GSLIS CE Workshop at Mt. Holyoke -- Card Sorting A to Z with Ellyssa Kroski -- March 22nd

[GSLIS CE2]

Card Sorting A to Z
Saturday, March 22, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Simmons GSLIS West, Mt. Holyoke Campus
Cost: $160

Web users will spend an average of 8-10 seconds and 3 clicks on your
website looking for what they need before they get frustrated and click
away. Whether you are developing a new website or redesigning an
existing one, it is imperative to determine a navigational structure and
taxonomy which will be intuitive and usable for your user community.
Card sorting is a technique used in the Information Architecture field
to determine a classification scheme that speaks to your user
population. Discover how to use this quick and inexpensive technique to
understand how your users think about your website and its content.
Learn how to run both an open and a closed card sort, analyze the
results, and make recommendations based on your data. This workshop will
explore both online and offline card-sorting techniques as well as
analysis software. Make sure your information is findable and increase
usability by involving your users in the process of designing your
website – they will thank you for it!

Faculty: Ellyssa Kroski, Reference Librarian at Columbia University,
author of the blog "InfoTangleWeb" and book "Web 2.0 for Librarians and
Information Professionals" (2007); ellyssakroski at yahoo.com

For more information see
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/ or contact
gslisce at simmons.edu <mailto:gslisce at simmons.edu>

-- 
Kris Liberman
Program Manager
Simmons GSLIS CE
T - 617-521-2803
F - 617-521-3192
gslisce at simmons.edu <mailto:gslisce at simmons.edu>
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/

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