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Eric Adler
Iron Contributor
Jul 02, 2019

Suggestions for low cost online Card Sort tool?

Looking for suggestions for a low-cost online card sorting tool.

 

I'm sure we can all agree that the correct IA is key for good usability and adoption.

 

We're going to re-do our navigation to better serve our users and looking for a card sort tool that we can use to gather data on how to best organize.

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  • Marzipanina's avatar
    Marzipanina
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 12, 2021

    Eric Adler 

    I personally have been using https://www.uxtweak.com/ for all of my latest card sorts and I totally recommend it. 

    It’s super fast and provides great insights on organizing your content. You conduct your study with real customers and there are a bunch of features within the tool for user behavior analytics. 🙂

     

    I would also say that it's very intuitive and easy to use, compared to some other platforms I tried before. You'll have no problems with recruiting the participants, they offer help with that too.   The results give you a ton of information about your users which is also easy to analyze.

    Here’s the link if you decide to check it out https://www.uxtweak.com/card-sort-tool 

    The prices are really affordable and on top of all that, they offer a free trial, so definitely keep that in mind. 

  • Mike Dumka's avatar
    Mike Dumka
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 25, 2019

    Eric Adler Totally agree that IA is incredibily important for a positive user experience. As this is so important companies know that most times companies will pay through the nose for it and sometimes that is a tough sell to the people that pay the bills 😃!

     

    Having said that, I have been lucky to work with clients who paid for Optimal Sort which is the best tool in my opinion. But I have also had clients who did not want to foot the bill. So ... 

     

    If you can do them in person and have access to a Mac, I would recommend https://xsortapp.com/ as its free and has analytics built in.  

     

    If you have to do it remote, I would suggest using something like Trello. You have to do the analytics manually but it would cost you nothing. http://niawdeleon.com/how-to-use-trello-for-card-sorting/. 

     

    But if you can afford $25 for a month (for most projects that's enough for 1 test) you could get https://www.provenbyusers.com/pricing.php or https://www.usabilitest.com/pricing. That $25 is money well spent just for the reports!

     

    Anyways ... good and keep fighting the UX fight!

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