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* Members of the audience that uses the environment may differ significantly in how they view the similarities among items and the appropriate groupings of items.
== Basic
To perform a card sort:
# A person representative of the audience is given a set of index cards with terms already written on them.
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# The results are later analyzed to reveal patterns.
== Open
In an '''open card sort''', participants create their own names for the categories.
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Open sorting is '''generative'''; it is typically used to discover patterns in how participants classify, which in turn helps generate ideas for organizing information.
== Closed
In a '''closed card sort''', participants are provided with a predetermined set of category names. They then assign the index cards to these fixed categories.
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Closed sorting is '''evaluative'''; it is typically used to judge whether a given set of category names provides an effective way to organize a given collection of content.
== Reverse
See [[Tree testing (information architecture)|tree testing]].
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== Analyzing
Various methods can be used to analyze the data. The purpose of the analysis is to extract patterns from the population of test subjects, so that a common set of categories and relationships emerges. This common set is then incorporated into the design of the environment, either for navigation or for other purposes.
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2009/06/how-to-know-what-to-put-where-card-sorting/ Short video explanation of card sorting]▼
[[Category:Folksonomy]]
[[Category:Usability]]
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▲[http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2009/06/how-to-know-what-to-put-where-card-sorting/ Short video explanation of card sorting]
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