Testing Taxonomies: Beyond Card Sorting

Card Sorting for Cartographic Research and Practice

In this article, we describe the potential utility of the card sorting method for structuring and refining large map symbol sets. Simply defined, card sorting requires that participants organize a set of items (i.e., cards) into categories according to some characteristic(s) of the cards (i.e., the sorting criterion). Card sorting has been proposed as a method for delineating categories by rese...

Card sorting activities with preschool children

Preschoolers’ categorization differs from adults’; therefore it is beneficial to involve them in the design process to create appropriate information architecture for this age group. In this paper, we describe three card sorting activities conducted with a total of fifty six preschool children in five nurseries. We conclude that a closed card sorting task can be combined with a matchto-sample a...

Does the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Measure

A Comparison of Card-sorting Analysis Methods

This study investigates how the choice of analysis method for card sorting studies affects the suggested information structure for websites. In the card sorting technique, a variety of methods are used to analyse the resulting data. The analysis of card sorting data helps user experience (UX) designers to discover the patterns in how users make classifications and thus to develop an optimal, us...

Card Sorting, Category Validity, and Contextual Navigation

One of the main goals of information architecture is to organize an informational domain into a usable taxonomy. This is, however, a difficult task: final users can classify the same domain differently from experts, differences can arise between different groups of users, and the same users can create different taxonomies for different goals (goal derived taxonomies). Even using a participatory...