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This survey is for my book on card sorting, and asks about how you've used card sorting in a way that may be different to the standard technique.

There are 7 simple questions, and I estimate that the survey will take you about 5 minutes to complete.

I will share summarised results from this survey on the book's website and mostly likely in the book itself; I'll let you know when they are available. I won't share your name or any other personal information.

Questions with a * are required.

I'm interested in how people vary the 'standard' open card sorting technique. Before I ask about that, here's what I consider to be some elements of the <emphasis>standard technique</emphasis>:

  • The card sort is conducted for a website, intranet or other content-based design project
  • Cards are drawn from a subset of existing content or a brainstormed set of future content
  • Participants (usually users) are provided with a set of cards listing titles of content from the site
  • Participants may work in groups or individually
  • The card sort may be conducted face-to-face or with a software tool
  • Participants create groups with the cards that make sense to them
  • After creating the groups, participants describe (with a simple label) what each group represents
  • You discuss why participants created groups in the way they did

Minor variations include:

  • Participants can ignore cards, add extra cards or put cards in more than one place
  • Cards may have extra information such as descriptions or images

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* 1. Have you done something different from the standard technique (e.g. asked participants to rate cards by importance, asked them to repeat the sort using different criteria, select labels from a pre-determined vocabulary)

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* 2. What type of project or activity did you use the card sort for?

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* 3. What did you do that was different from the standard technique?

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* 4. Why did you choose to use this non-standard approach?

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* 5. How did you use the information gathered from the activity?

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* 6. Do you have any remaining comments?

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* 7. Please enter your name and email address in case I have follow-up questions; your information will not be sold, rented, or otherwise shared:

Thank you so much for your help - Donna Maurer

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