From the course: UX Research Methods: Card Sorting
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Organizing and analyzing data
From the course: UX Research Methods: Card Sorting
Organizing and analyzing data
- Once all the session are complete, you'll have to tackle organizing all the data and synthesizing insights that the team can use moving forward. There are several ways to analyze card sort data. And your process will be slightly different, depending on what type of test you've ran. Regardless of the type of card sort, your first focus will be to organize everything you've collected. I'd recommend using a single spreadsheet to enter all the data. Donna Spencer has a brilliant template that she's made available, and a detailed set of instructions for organizing card sort data in a spreadsheet. Essentially, she suggests creating a tab for each participant that has one column for the card names, and another for the category or group that they put the card in. Donna's spreadsheet has a formula built-in to summarize each of the participant's results by card. If you've ran an open or hybrid study, where participants suggested their own labels, one important thing to do is identify and…
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