Card sorting

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Introduction

According to Donna Spencer and Todd Warfel, “Card sorting is a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method, which serves as input into your information design process. Card sorting generates an overall structure for your information, as well as suggestions for navigation, menus, and possible taxonomies.”

Typical information that can be found is:

  • How do users want to see the information grouped, e.g. by various subjects, by processes, by type of information, etc.
  • How many main categories can be identified
  • Are there different groups of users with different needs ?

Alternative methods:

Methods

There exist two primary methods

Open card sorting

Closed card sorting

Tools

Links

Indexes of articles
  • Card sorting list of introductory and discussion articles, by Dey Alexander.


Introductions