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Card Sorting for Navigation Design

 

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Includes a free license for Syncaps V2 (a £150 value) for each participant.

Next Available:

  • 07-Oct-10 in Brussels

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Card sorting is a valuable technique for improving user experience since it allows navigation to better reflect the expectations of real users.

This one-day course will give you a good understanding of card sorting, particularly applied to web navigation design and information architecture. The practical activities centre on the redesign of several existing web sites. The course makes use of Syntagm's own card sorting tools as well as various other resources.

We have given half-day version of this course at various international conferences, most recently at CHI 2010 in Atlanta and HCI 2009 in Cambridge (UK). This new full-day course was first presented as part of Nielsen-Norman Usability Week.

Includes a free license for Syncaps V2 (a £150 value) for each participant.

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Duration

Full day (9:30 pm to 5:00 pm), including breakfast and lunch (breakfast from 8:30)

Benefits

You will learn how to make effective use of card sorting, particularly in navigation design:

  • Understanding the various types of card sorting techniques and tools
  • Hands-on experience of both paper-based and online sorting tools
  • Using simple and advanced analysis techniques
  • Interpreting results
  • Comparing navigation designs with participants' results

Features

  • Open versus closed and hybrid sorts
  • Qualitative versus quantitative focus
  • Selecting and briefing participants
  • Quick data capture from paper sorts using bar codes
  • Various tools described and compared
  • Redesigning web site navigation (two activities)
  • Merging items and groups
  • Card sorting versus affinity diagramming

Audience

Usability, UX, UCD practitioners and Information Architects. No previous experience of card sorting or cluster analysis is needed.

Participants' comments

Evaluation comments from participants – about the course:

  • A good introduction to card sorting techniques
  • Workshop at right pace
  • I can really see myself applying this

and about the tutor:

  • Clear, approachable, well-paced presentation
  • Very competent - clear explanation of the concepts
  • Subject knowledge very good
  • Very professional

Instructor

William Hudson is a User Experience Stratgeist who consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design, user experience and usability. He has over 40 years experience in the development of interactive systems, initially with a background in software engineering. William was the product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensable tool in major film studios. He has specialized in interaction design and human-computer interaction since the late 1980's. William has written and taught courses that have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He is the founder and principal consultant of Syntagm, a consultancy specializing in the design of interactive systems established in 1985.

William has presented papers, talks and tutorials at a number of international conferences including CHI, UPA and Nielsen Norman Group Usability Week.

He is the author of two upcoming titles -

  • Lighting the Road Ahead: A 55-minute guide to usability, accessibility and SEO
  • User Experience for the Dynamic Web: Ajax Design and Usability

William has worked with a wide variety of clients, from startups to established multi-nationals (click here to see our client list).

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