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

[Donna Maurer]

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