{"id":447,"date":"2016-10-04T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2021-02-23T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T09:09:53","slug":"card-sorting-in-ux-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/04\/card-sorting-in-ux-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Sorting in UX Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Card sorting is a popular method of user research in user experience design and it&#8217;s part of Informational Architecture. Card sorting helps to understand how users would like to see the information and concepts in their product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How It&#8217;s work:<\/strong> It has different variation, normally performed by asking the user to sort a deck of card in front of them, each card contain a piece of content \/Information \/functionality related with the product. It also helps to understand the user&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conceptual_model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">conceptional model<\/a>. They are 2 types of Card Sorting Method.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Open Card Sorting:<\/strong>\u00a0Normally performed by asking the user to sort cards into groups that they feel are appropriate and then describe each group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Closed Card Sorting:<\/strong>\u00a0Normally performed by asking the user to place cards into these pre-established primary groups.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Essential Steps are in below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Find Users:<\/strong> It would be great if you can find your target audience or potential users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Display the cards in front of them: <\/strong>Arrange the front of the card of them, each card contain a piece of content\/Information\/functionality related to the product.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ask them to sort the cards:\u00a0<\/strong>Ask them to arrange the cards, how they are would like to see them in their product.<\/li>\n<li>Collect that with the same order and give a name (For the Open Card Sorting method).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repeat the above 4 steps with at-lest 3-5 users:<\/strong>\u00a0If you want to discover the significant pattern you should repeat the same process with at least 3-5 users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Identify the pattern:\u00a0<\/strong>You can compare one result with others and identify the patterns. Example: 2 to 3 users sorted the few cards into the same groups that could be a pattern.<\/li>\n<li>Present the result to the stakeholders or Build the structure of your product.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Watch this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FTzHeYPB9c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">video <\/a>to know more about card sorting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Card sorting is a popular method of user research in user experience design and it&#8217;s part of Informational Architecture. Card sorting helps to understand how users would like to see the information and concepts in their product. How It&#8217;s work: It has different variation, normally performed by asking the user to sort a deck of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ux-designer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazilabdulkhadar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}