Methods - Card Sorting. Card sorting is a useful tool to determine how users categorize the information that will appear on a website.
The name “card sort” comes from the original exercise, which used index cards with a word or phrase written on one side, and in some cases, a definition or additional information on the reverse side. There are traditionally two types of card sort exercises used: open card sort, and closed card sort. Open Card Sort In an open card sort exercise, participants are given a stack of cards and are asked to group them together as it makes sense to them (no right or wrong answers). After they have grouped the cards, they are asked to name each group of cards. Closed Card Sort In a closed card sort exercise, participants are provided group names, and are asked to place each of the cards into one of the pre-established groups. The results of a card sort exercise may be used to develop an application or website’s Information Architecture. Usability. Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object.
The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job function by designers, technical writers, marketing personnel, and others. It is widely used in consumer electronics, communication, and knowledge transfer objects (such as a cookbook, a document or online help) and mechanical objects such as a door handle or a hammer.
Usability includes methods of measuring usability, such as needs analysis[1] and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance. In human-computer interaction and computer science, usability studies the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site (web usability) is designed. Introduction[edit] Definition[edit] Usability is a non-functional requirement.
Official Olympic Website: UI Silver — but UX DQ. Jakob Nielsen Biography. Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr.
Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Dr. Nielsen established the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use. Jakob Nielsen has been called: "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine) "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times) "the next best thing to a true time machine" (USA Today) "the smartest person on the Web" (ZDNet AnchorDesk) "the world's leading expert on Web usability" (U.S. Usability Articles Since 1995, Dr. Subscribe to the Alertbox newsletter Books Professional Background Jakob Nielsen holds a Ph.D. in human–computer interaction (HCI) from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. Dr. In June 2000, Dr. Profiles.