London: Everything you've always wanted to know about card sorting, William Hudson, Syntagm (Thursday 17 February)
Card sorting is a powerful technique in eliciting users' understanding of a problem domain. It is particularly helpful in navigation design and information architecture. William Hudson describes the basic principles of card sorting and cluster analysis, including more advanced interpretation of results and an innovative approach combining the best features of paper sorting with computer processing.
A live card sort will be performed!
Speaker biography: William Hudson is a specialist in user-centred design. He has presented papers and tutorials in UCD at a variety of conferences, and teaches UCD techniques in public and in-house courses. William writes a regular column in the ACM's interactions magazine. He founded Syntagm, a small consultancy specializing in interactive system design, in 1985.
Time: 6.30 for 6.45pm, followed by drinks and networking at 8pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft, House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1R 3DG
Event cost: FREE to UPA members; £10 for non-members and £5 for non-member students
Resources
Further information on William's Computer-aided paper sorting (Caps) technique is available from the Syntagm site.
- Right-click to download slides from the event (pdf 243Kb)