From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Recording participants' answers
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Recording participants' answers
After each participant has completed the card sort exercise, you'll need to record the groupings they used in a spreadsheet. Use the participant name as the identifier, then the name they gave to the first group, followed by the reference numbers from the card they put in that group. Repeat this down the page for each group in turn. If some of your participants created hierarchies of groups, say cut flowers and live flowers, underneath the heading of flowers, just ignore the hierarchy for the moment. Make a separate group for each label that was written. Keep a note of the hierarchies the participants created, though. That can be useful later in the process. Here's a little trick. You can check that you entered the data correctly by doing the sum of the column. The sum of the numbers in the column should be the same as the sum of all the numbers from one to the number of cards you have. The formula is really simple, number of cards mutiplied by number of cards plus one. Divided by…
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