Card Sorting

Card sorting

A research method to help

understand users’ mental models

regarding the structure of information which can be used to

help design the information architecture of a system, site or

app. Participants group topics into categories that are make

sense to them either digitally or with paper cards and these

groupings are analysed to identify common patterns.

Related information:

Optimal sort software

do with a sample of real users of the system (either analog or digital methods)

Standardise how a card content is expressed (no mixed modes)

use card sorting to inform information architecture design

Monothetic agglomerative cluster analysis

A statistical method of analysing results of a card sorting

session.