Card-Sorting

Card sorting is a procedure that logic and use suitable navigation or menu structures can be developed using the. The aim of the process is to create a usable design, that is a user-friendly and easy to understand concept with logical structure, which is accepted by the end users alike. The general scope is equally to settle in the software development and web design.

In the card sorting at least 15 representative test persons are given with all menu items Cards ( Cards). The task of the subjects now is to sort these menu items in their opinion, reasonable upper menu items. Various shades of degrees of freedom can be specified:

• No requirements regarding the number or designation of the generic terms ( subjects must set itself the number and names of the preambles )
• A fixed number of preambles ( test subjects put the name of the preambles yourself)
• Number and names of generic terms are defined ( test subjects arrange the cards to the preambles that appear most likely to fit )

This process can be carried out in a single stage or multi-stage process. In addition, the intelligibility of individual classifiable terms and alternative descriptions can be obtained.

The appropriate time for the card sorting method is in the development phase and design phase of the program.