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Card Sort & Site Architecture

A card sort requires participants (approx 50) to group and categorise information. This exercise helps us structure the site and label the pages and sections so that they make sense to most users.

See a sample document of information architecture. 

The following is a quick example of how the exercise works.

Examples of outputs:

 

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