Comments on: Drupal.org – what we learned from the card sort

By: leisa.reichelt

leisa.reichelt — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:19:43 +0000

hi Dave – sorry for the delay getting back with this information, but here it is:

for jobs the top two categories were:
Insiders: 1. community, 2. corporate/business
Outsiders: 1. community, 2. about drupal

for professional services they were:
Insiders: 1. community, 2. business
Outsiders: 1. about, 2. jobs/services

By: Daniel Reeders

Daniel Reeders — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:29:50 +0000

I’m currently evaluating CMS options for a collaborative/community based site, and every time I look at the Drupal website I get a headache, so I’m really thrilled to see you’re on the case. Just one comment I’d make about an ambivalence in the word ‘Community’ – it could either refer to modules, downloads, and functionality for use on a Drupal site to enable inter-user communication, or it could refer to opportunities for interaction on the Drupal site itself.

By: EclipseGc

EclipseGc — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:43:46 +0000

Leisa,

I think a closed card sort could be very useful if you already know the answers you’re looking for… i.e. come up with your own IA and then build a card sort to see if your previous data, plus your experience, matches the general response of the community. That way your not polling us for more data, so much as your polling us to confirm your beliefs/suspicions.

Just a thought.

By: yaph

yaph — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:22:14 +0000

A closed card sort could be useful to see whether the set of category names that are candidates for actually being used on the new drupal.org site would be interpreted by insiders and outsiders as intended. It can help to find confusing category names.

By: Dave Neary

Dave Neary — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:35:59 +0000

Hi Leisa,

I’d be interested to know, having just finished the cardsort, where people put “Professional services” and “Jobs”, which were two things I ended up putting in “Stuff that didn’t fit elsewhere”. Hope I was the only one to suggest that category (although I am guessing that there are quite a few people who used “Other” or “Miscellaneous”, am I right?)

Dave.

By: Kieran Lal

Kieran Lal — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:53 +0000

40 months ago we did a card sort for Drupal documentation. Here’s the posting, http://drupal.org/node/21627.

It will be interesting to see how the results have changed over time.

Kieran