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Reviewing what participants see

Reviewing what participants see

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Reviewing what participants see

At this point, I'm going to show you what a card sort looks like from a participant perspective. After they click on the link from the e-mail you send out, this is what participants see in their browser. Once they've entered their e-mail address, they would be shown the presort questions. We didn't have any presort questions. So our participants are taken straight to the sorting interface. Now you can see why I suggest limiting the number of cards you ask people to sort. Although it's possible to scroll the card sorting area, it's not that large. Here participants see the first set of instructions which point out the items they'll need to sort and tell them how to proceed. Let's drag the first item across. Dragging it across creates a new group with a space to name the group. It also replaces the first set of instructions with some new ones, to link participants so that they can continue to drag items across, and to name the groups whenever they want to. As participants continue to…

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