Further Reading

There’s really only one book you need to read to find out pretty much everything there is to know about card sorting: Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories [Spe09].

Spencer also writes a great blog on this topic.[36]

To easily and quickly create cards for a card sort, you can use my card generator at http://cardsort.ignorethecode.net.

Footnotes

[33]

Jakob Nielsen talks about this problem and offers solutions for it at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/word-matching.html.

[34]

Read his essay at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040719.html.

[35]

At http://www.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort.htm.

[36]

At http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/card-sorting/.

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