<p><em>Extending card sorting techniques to inform the design of website hierarchies.</em><br />
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Author: Mike Hawley, SVP, Director of User Experience<br />
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When developing hierarchies for information rich websites, designers and usability researchers often turn to card sorting for help making design decisions. Card sorting offers a systematic and statistically significant process for answering questions about hierarchy design. However, those of us who have run card sorts know there is an art to conducting successful card sort studies, and there are many variables that can affect the usefulness of results...</p>

Extending Card Sorting

Author: Michael Hawley
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Extending card sorting techniques to inform the design of website hierarchies.

Author: Mike Hawley, SVP, Director of User Experience

When developing hierarchies for information rich websites, designers and usability researchers often turn to card sorting for help making design decisions. Card sorting offers a systematic and statistically significant process for answering questions about hierarchy design. However, those of us who have run card sorts know there is an art to conducting successful card sort studies, and there are many variables that can affect the usefulness of results...

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