Comments on: Card sorting tools - final summary

By: Donna Spencer

Donna Spencer — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:26:40 +0000

I’ve continued this list on my book website: http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/cardsorting/content/resources/

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:14:51 +0000

Stavros - none does this. Mind you, I have never seen a participant create 3 levels deep - most do two at most
I also wonder about your assessment of the math - I don’t necessarily agree that cards 3 levels deep should have a higher proximity value than 2 levels deep. Depends on whether you look at them as leaves at the same level or whether you think of the first branch at the same level.

By: Stavros Garzonis

Stavros Garzonis — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:46:17 +0000

Hi Donna,

Thanks for the comprehensive review. It seems that there are quite a few sorting tools out there with all kinds of advatages and shortcomings.

I am personally trying to find one that would take into account deep nesting in the hierarchial stracture of the card sorting. For example, if a participant creates sub-sub-categories and has two cards under 2.1.3 category, the proximity value should be set higher than two cards in a sub category (e.g. 3.1).

I have found xSort (MAC only) and the SynCaps software being able to take into account only one level of sub-categories.

Please let me know if you are aware if any of the tools you have used can help me with this.

Thanks

Stavros

By: Guy Sangwine

Guy Sangwine — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:58:22 +0000

Hi,

Just for reference you can obtain both the IBM tools here:

http://www.tripledogs.com/ibm-usability/

Cheers,

Guy

By: David Farrar

David Farrar — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:00:40 +0000

USort and EzCalc can still be found, for the moment, at: http://web.archive.org/web/20040205000418/http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/410

By: Mark Thomsit

Mark Thomsit — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:59:35 +0000

I’ve been unable to track down EZCalc from IBM. The URL given on most
sites is: http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/410

I saw this entry in your blog was recent. Do you know if the tool is
still available?

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:14:51 +0000

Thanks, but as I mentioned in my previous post, the card titles are limited to 18 characters which was nowhere near enough for me.

By: Philippe von Hellberg

Philippe von Hellberg — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:36:20 +0000

We made very good experiences with a free tool called “card sort” (http://cardsort.net/). It offers basic functionality and reads and writes EZCalc compatible files.
During a project with a youth-information-office at different locations the application was really worth full, because of the easy and nice interface and a straightforward installation (java-applet).

By: pollas.dk

pollas.dk — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:21:25 +0000

GUUUI - Card sorting tools

GUUUI points us to a summary on card sorting tools.

By: Information Management Weblog

Information Management Weblog — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:10:55 +0000

Card Sort Tools

Donna Maurer has written a short little review of the card sorting tools out there. The IA world apparently is still waiting for the perfect tool for this……

By: Column Two

Column Two — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:45:06 +0000

Card sorting tools - final summary

Donna has posted another blog entry on card sorting tools, this time giving a summary of several of the most commonly-used. To quote: I posted a short summary of card sorting tools last week. At the time, I had looked…