From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Making the cards
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Making the cards
Once you have your list of tasks, it's time to make them into cards for the sorting exercise. You can do that in several ways. The lowest tech way to make cards is to write them out by hand. You can make a set of 30 three inch by five inch cards quite quickly. This is normally sufficient for most sorts. Handwriting your cards does have a few drawbacks. The first issue is that creating more sets of cards takes a long time. Often, you might want to conduct a series of cards so it's one after the other, so you'll want to leave them bundled up into groupings that participates used, until you have time to analyze them later. Or, you might have two people running card sorts at the same time. That means you'll need two or more sets of cards. Writing out a new set of cards takes as much time as the first set took. The other issue is how legible the cards are. If you have neat writing and if you write large enough using a thick pen, you'll probably be okay. However, if your writing is messy…
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