Enhancing Information Architecture through Card Sorting: A Comprehensive Exercise
"Explore how card sorting can optimize content organization and information architecture. Understand the importance of context, goal setting, conducting card sorting, organizing content, identifying missing content, prioritizing information, and sharing insights for further improvements. Discover the next steps in the research process and engage participants effectively. Gather feedback and address questions for a successful content alignment exercise."
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Card Sorting an exploratory exercise to improve content and information architecture
Context Think about why you are making the changes to your content and what your constraints might be.
Purpose of today What is the goal of this day s sort
How this card sort will work Explain to your participants how the card sort will be conducted
Organize. category Place the content below the existing categories. content Remember, you can: re-label content or categories. create new categories. place content in multiple categories. content content
Think about what is missing. category If there is content you don t see that will be important to website visitors, write it on a slip of paper and place it in a category. will be content content new content
Prioritize. category category Use gold stars to mark the 5 most important things for website visitors. re-labeled content content content content content content content new content content
Prioritize. category Under each category, order the content from most to least important. most important content content content least important content
Share. Specifically What new categories did you add? What categories didn t you use? What was most important? What did you throw away? Generally How did this feel overall? What did you notice? What surprised you?
Our next steps. Explain to your participants what the next steps are in your research process Let them know if there are more ways to participate in the research
