From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Creating and running a paper-based reverse sort
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Creating and running a paper-based reverse sort
Running a paper-based reverse sort is really simple, and the analysis is much easier than for a card sort because you just have to create a tally of where each participant placed their task cards. The output is just the count of the number of places where participants agreed and disagreed with your hierarchy, plus any comments they make along the way. The way we run the reverse sort is to create an index card for each part of the information architecture hierarchy. Then we get people to tell us where in this hierarchy they'd expect to find certain items. These items correspond to the cards that we used for our initial card sort. If participants' expectations are a good match with the hierarchical structure, we know we're on the right track. We would typically use between 15 and 20 participants again if they're all representative of the same user type. We can follow the same basic protocol as with the original card sort, but because the reverse sort uses a slightly different method…
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