Design for Usability - Advances in Card Sorting Workshop

Advances in Card Sorting (Full Day)

We have several public dates for this course later in the year:

5 October 2009, London (follow link for online booking)
11-16 October 2009 (part of NNG Usability Week), Las Vegas

(The 5 October date is in conjunction with our full-day Ajax design and usability course on the 6th.)

We also present a half-day version of this course, usually at academic conferences. It will be next available at HCI 2009 on 1st September at the University of Cambridge (see http://www.hci2009.org).

Please contact us if you would like to be notified when new dates are arranged or would like to have the course run in-house.

Processing a card sort with a bar code reader

Book online for our public course in London on 5 October 2009 (full day).

Alternatively, we can run any of our courses at your premises. Contact us for details.

Topics

You will learn how to make effective use of advanced card sorting methods and tools including:

Computer-aided paper sorting
Web-based sorting
Participant analysis
Item analysis
Cluster analysis
Dendrograms
Item x group analysis
Pairs maps
Navigational alignment

Course Outline

Introduction to Computer-Aided Paper Sorting

Preparing sorts

Screen potential participants

Briefing participants

Open, semi-open and closed sorts

Sub-groups

Open card sort activity

Perform open card sort

Process results using bar-code readers

Analyse results with SynCaps

Understanding the analysis

Cluster analysis and dendrograms

Extended analysis data: card, item, participant and proximity matrix data (SynCaps)

Buffet lunch

Walk through analysis process

Hands-on experience of analyses with SynCaps and Excel

Advanced features

Ad-hoc and split items

Merging items and groups

Item x group charts

Pairs maps

Expert data

Navigational alignment

Prepare and perform closed, online card sort

Practical application of analyses

Use of web-based card sorting

Analyse online card sort

Assess quality of closed sort

Identify areas needing further analysis

Questions and discussion

(There are mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks not shown separately in the timetable.)

Biography

William Hudson consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design and usability. He has over 30 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 which 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 the UK UPA, Scottish UPA, South West Usability Group, British HCI Group conferences, CHI conferences and OOPSLA.

Credit Card Booking

Special offer: three places for the price of two!

This course can also be combined with our full-day Ajax Design and Usability (on 6 October), for even greater savings. Note that our '3 for 2' offer is calculated per course, so two places on the card sorting course and one on the Ajax course, for example, does not qualify. However, if you book places using the 'both days' option, you can have different colleagues attending each day.

You can book places for public courses online using a credit card or by asking us to invoice you using the form below. The price includes a fully-licensed copy of analyses software, SynCaps V2, for each paid place (organisations taking advantage of the '3 for 2' offer will received 2 copies). Lunch and other refreshments are provided.

Advances in Card Sorting
in St Pancras, London on 5 October 2009 (full day)
£375 per place up to 5 September 2009 ; £395 subsequently (plus VAT)

Both days can be booked at £695 per place up to 5 September 2009 ; £750 subsequently (plus VAT)

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