How to perform card sorting

An article on this simple and inexpensive UI research technique.

Card sorting is a simple and effective method with which most of us are familiar. There are already some excellent resources on how to run a card sort and why you should do card sorting. This article, on the other hand, is a frank discussion of the lessons I’ve learned from running numerous card sorts over the years. By sharing these lessons learned along the way, I hope to enable others to dodge similar potholes when they venture down the card sorting path.

Card Sorting: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned :: UXmatters

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