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<\/a><\/p>\nI got into cardsorting before I came into Information Architecture proper and so I have some different techniques. This is one that I really thinks helps us focus in on content and the core “things” that people are dealing with rather than just the “words” that describe the things.<\/p>\n
Card sorting with pictures & images was and is a very useful technique for working with peoples who didn’t have a written language or were themselves illiterate. It’s ironic that we use it for helping to organize and structure large textual groupings. <\/p>\n
For those who work on entertainment sites (with movie, video, and music) there are a number of very useful ways to use this way of card sorting to build a much better organization of your information that we currently see out there on the major media and entertainment sites. This kind of sorting I have also successfully used to generate metadata which is another weakness of so many movies, video, and music search & browse interfaces.<\/p>\n
Right now I am planning to use a varient of this for some work on reports and reporting dashboards applications which have very complex visual information issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is an example of a visual or image card sort Michael Blakesley and I did for the redesign of the Baltimore\/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI.) If you want to do run-of-the-mill user research you are going to get run-of-the-mill insights that everone else gets. You need to get insights that your competitors aren’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,161,162,153],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-card-sorting","tag-images","tag-pictures","tag-visual"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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