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Accessing remote users with online sorts
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Accessing remote users with online sorts
Call me old-fashioned, but there's something very powerful about watching participants place physical cards in groups on a table, while you listen to their reasons for creating a particular structure. However, paper-based sorts do end up creating some data entry and analysis issues, and they aren't always practical to run. There are software alternatives that emulate a paper-based card sort. They capture all the data for you, and they often spit out cluster analysis visualizations. Without any extra work on your behalf. I would suggest checking into desktop based card sort apps. Like XSORT, for the MAC, or USXORT for Windows, which are both free to use. If you don't have physical access to participants, you could just use online conferencing to share one of the desktop based card sort apps with a participant. But there are also purpose built online tools. These online tools are also really useful if you're tight on time, and need to run multiple sorts at once, or if you can't be in…
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