{"id":74,"date":"2016-09-07T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-01-31T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:14:42","slug":"card-sorting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/card-sorting\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Sorting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like card sorting. I think it&#8217;s one of the most powerful tools not just in UX, but in IT in general. It makes the abstract concrete, and there&#8217;s something about the nature of it that just helps users find their own connections, without prompting from &#8216;us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I was working on a little Intranet project at the Center for Educational Leadership. The Center has very 4 distinct teams, so figuring out a common IA and navigational schema is always tough.<\/p>\n<p>I took terms from the highest navigational levels of a few systems (live website, network drives, other shared tools) and asked them to sort them out:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76\" src=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kelekacey-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"kelekacey\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kelekacey-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kelekacey-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kelekacey-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like card sorting. I think it&#8217;s one of the most powerful tools not just in UX, but in IT in general. It makes the abstract concrete, and there&#8217;s something about the nature of it that just helps users find their own connections, without prompting from &#8216;us.&#8217; I was working on a little Intranet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}