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Accessing remote users with online sorts

Accessing remote users with online sorts

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Accessing remote users with online sorts

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Call me old-fashioned, but there's something very powerful about watching participants place physical cards into 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. Using an online tool lets you recruit participants from anywhere, and they can perform the test whenever they want. You can get lots of results in a very short time. Optimal Workshop's card sort tool is my current favorite because of its powerful built-in data visualization and potential to export to spreadsheets for further analysis. Others you might want to consider are uxmetrics. com and uxtweak.com. Some companies offer trial accounts with limited numbers of cards and participants. These are okay for testing out the service, but for a serious sort, you're probably going to have to put down some money. I used to recommend UserZoom, now owned by UserTesting. It's…

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