Question 144 - Certified User Experience Designer discussion

Card sorting is a UX research method used to discover how people understand and categorize information. In a card sort, participants group ideas or information written on cards into different categories in a way that makes sense to them. The designer can use virtual cards, pieces of paper, or an online card sorting tool. Card sorting can help the designer to:

Assess the information architecture (IA) of a website or homepage

Learn how people understand different concepts or ideas, and how they feel about them

Understand where users expect certain content to be found

Get inspiration for labeling and grouping content or ideas

In this case, the designer wants to understand the structure and layout of the navigation menu for the Experience Cloud site. The designer can use card sorting to learn how users would group and label the pages or features of the site, and what categories or subcategories they would expect to see in the navigation menu. This can help the designer to create a user-friendly and intuitive IA that matches the users' mental models and expectations.

To conduct a card sorting activity, the designer should:

Define the goal and scope of the card sort

Choose the type of card sort (open, closed, or hybrid)

Choose the format of the card sort (moderated or unmoderated)

Select the cards and categories to use

Recruit and screen the participants

Run the card sort sessions

Analyze and interpret the results

Apply the findings to the design

The correct answer is B, have users sort the cards based on similar categories or groups. This is the main task of a card sorting activity, where users are asked to group the cards (representing the pages or features of the site) into categories or groups that make sense to them. The designer can then analyze the results to see how users organize and label the information, and use that to inform the design of the navigation menu.