Card Sorting User Research Method | How to Conduct Card Sorting?

Опубликовано: 02 Март 2026
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Card Sorting UX Research Method | How to Conduct Card Sorting?
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1. What is Card Sorting?
Card sorting is a UX research method in which participants groups the individual labels written on Sticky notes according to category that make sense to them. This method help to understand the users mental modal and it serves to create an information architecture that matches users’ expectations.

2. Types of Card Sorting
a. Open card sorting is the most common type of card sort. In an open card sort, users are free to assign whatever names they want to the groups they’ve created with the cards in the stack.

b. Closed card sorting is a variation where users are given a predetermined set of category names, and they are asked to organize the individual cards into these predetermined categories.

3. Advantages of card sorting
• It is simple and cheap to run card sorting sessions.
• Quick to get research conducted and results back from users, especially if sessions are conducted remotely.
• Provides a good insight about the users and how they would expect the information to be organised.

4. Conclusion
Card sorting is a highly useful technique in information architecture; it is used to understand how users think about your content. It can help you organize content so that it suits your users’ mental models, rather than the point of view of your company. Card sorting can be supplemented with other information-architecture methods to identify issues in your category structure

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