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› March 22, 2003
Open Source Card Sorting Tool
There's been lots of mentions of card sorting in the IA/usability blogosphere lately. My company, Uzilla LLC, has just released v0.7PR of uzCardSort licensed under the MPL. It's unique among the available electronic options for card sorting in running well on OS X (in theory)!
Card sorting is a tool for assessing user mental models of your users...
InfoDesign.au has a nice tutorial.
While typically performed with index cards, data analysis can be quite time consuming.
uzCardSort has only rudimentary analysis components at this point. The interface is also a bit crufty -- I have a hard time doing design and coding at the same time, although I tend to leave wiggle room where needed.
uzCardSort uses a support library to enable easy access to the file system and the built in XML parsing/serialization functions to transform flat files into datastructures.
The only remaining question is how to draw the dendrogram? Mozilla SVG? Flash? Tables?
Comments
1. March 23, 2003 07:26 AM
2. July 6, 2004 09:26 AM
Jakob Posted…
It just doesn't work right (win 2000, moz. 1.7): can't get the dendrogram or other analysis features to work. A pity...
Andy Posted…
Ack! Looks like it only fully works on Windows. The sample project sorta works on OS X but new project creation does not. Making progress tho...