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Advances in Card Sorting (Full Day)

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Processing a card sort with a bar code reader

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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 (comparing current design with card sorting results)

What You'll Learn

  • The differences between open, closed and hybrid card sorts
  • The benefits and drawbacks of paper-based versus screen-based sorting
  • How to choose the most appropriate approach to sorting
  • The basics of cluster analyses
  • What a dendrogram is and how to interpret it
  • How to use other forms of analysis effectively
  • How to compare participant results with a new or existing navigation structure

Course Outline

Introduction

  • Challenges of design
  • Basics of card sorting, benefits and limitations
  • Approaches
  • Face-to-face sorting
  • On-screen sorting
  • Terminology
  • Screen potential participants

Open card sort activity

  • Perform open card sort
  • Methods of analysis

Cluster analysis

  • Cluster analysis and dendrograms
  • Proximity matrices
  • Quality of fit

Buffet lunch

Other analyses

  • Items x groups
  • Merging items or groups
  • Items x items (pairs map)
  • Comparison of analyses

Processing the open sort

  • Perform data capture and analysis
  • Extended analysis
  • Navigational alignment

Prepare and perform closed, online card sort

  • Practical application of analyses
  • Use of web-based card sorting

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.

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