Card Sort Results
Six students of an undergraduate Web Design course participated voluntarily for a small post-test candy reward in a Card Sorting session. The participants were asked to engage in an open sort (meaning, they could make up their categories by themselves according to their own gusto) by sorting a total of 24 categories.
The categories were synthesized from the original site by extracting information about the 24 most frequent topics. The Card Sort session allows for generating sensible categories for the primary navigation on the redesigned site. As a lack of structure and hierarchy is the most critical pitfall of the original design, a Card Sort session is a valueable tool that will render a structural layout of the new site.
From the raw results show in the PDF, we created a category analysis and a cluster analysis. The category analysis shows common denominators regarding what categories are generally understood (by the participants) as going together, which is useful for creating the primary navigation. The cluster analysis reveals neighboring relationships between similar categories and hence suggests a structure for secondary navigation - i.e. from what sub page the user can go to the next.
The Card Sort results were computed using the freeware tool CardSword v0.4.