Card Sorting with Users

Holger Maassen has the inside track on card sorting. In this posting on Card Sorting Maassen describes using card sorting as a categorization technique with user groups in order to learn more about how they view and work with information.

"Card sorting is a categorization technique where users sort cards describing and giving their picture, their understanding and their mental picture of concepts, workflows and information and knowledge."

But, he notes, card sorting will not deliver a finished taxonomy.

He presented this as the first of a series on design and analysis techniques for improving user experience.