Simmons GSLIS CE Workshop: Card Sorting A-Z at GSLIS West on March 22nd
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Posted by GSLIS, March 13, 2008
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
GSLIS West, Mt. Holyoke Campus
Room: Shattuck 203
Cost: $160
Web users will spend an average of 8-10 seconds and 3 clicks on your website looking for what they need before they get frustrated and click away. Whether you are developing a new website or redesigning an existing one, it is imperative to determine a navigational structure and taxonomy which will be intuitive and usable for your user community. Card sorting is a technique used in the Information Architecture field to determine a classification scheme that speaks to your user population. Discover how to use this quick and inexpensive technique to understand how your users think about your website and its content. Learn how to run both an open and a closed card sort, analyze the results, and make recommendations based on your data. This workshop will explore both online and offline card-sorting techniques as well as analysis software. Make sure your information is findable and increase usability by involving your users in the process of designing your website – they will thank you for it!
Faculty: Ellyssa Kroski, Reference Librarian at Columbia University, author of the blog “InfoTangleWeb” and book “Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals” (2007); ellyssakroski@yahoo.com
For more information see http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/ or contact gslisce@simmons.edu
