Coming from a very unmathematical / unscientific
educational upbringing, my mind does boggle sometimes at the different methods
and tools you guys use to elicit statistics and other user data.
Every now and then I’ll come across a really good article which
gives me a bit more of an insight into what it is the professionals do on a day
to day basis. This article has recently been written by Jessica Miller,
Usability Tester at WalkMe in San Francisco, who writes extensively on
usability topics. In it, she discusses the pros and cons of card sorting
– the troubles she has found with it, and a useful insight into how you could
overcome the complexity and conundrums which can arise from this exercise.
This may be of use to anyone like me who just likes to learn
about these things, or anyone out there who comes up against the same issues
with reading card sorting data which she does.
She begins: I’ve mentioned usability card sorting in the past, briefly as one of the
more popular prototyping and visualising approaches for designing UX. But, I’ve
never really talked that deeply about it, and given its popularity, it’s time I
remedied that….
read more here!
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