card sorting results

See my responses below.... thanks!

On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Christian Mohn wrote:

>  Type of Categories
> 	That was a suprising result. 20% task based, 80% not,
yet in your
> conclusion/recommendations you say:
>
> "Category labels should be nouns (customization,
installation,  
> etc.), but
> consider
> re-titling content pages to use a task focus
(installing, customizing,
> etc.). The
> majority of new cards that users created during the
sort were task- 
> focused
> (page
> titles began with a gerund - Verb-ing)."
> 	
> How does that fit with the fact that 20% of users
categorised content
> differently? Am I missing the point here and comfusing 

> categorization with
> actual content?

If I'm reading your response correctly, are you asking if
the  
"category" stuff correlates to real pages? In
the card sort, users  
took the cards, which represent real content pages, and
grouped them,  
then named each grouping. The grouping names they created
are the  
"categories" I am referring to.  These become
headings/subheadings on  
the web site, much like the "Gallery 2 for
Users" and "Gallery 2 for  
Developers" headings on the codex home page. (You can
choose to put a  
page of content behind them or not, as appropriate.)

Below these category headings, you would list links to the
real  
documentation/content. These links could be revised to use
task- 
driven titles:

> Gallery 1
> 	Getting Started with Gallery 1 (this is the
"category")
		Installing Gallery 1 (these are the task-driven page
names, which  
link to the real content pages within the site)
		Securing Gallery 1

Apple does something similar (see http://www.apple.com/su
pport/ 
garageband/ ):

GarageBand
	GarageBand Support (category)
		Getting Started with GarageBand  (task-driven page name)
		Working with Tracks
		Working with Real Instruments

Adobe does something similar... see http://www.adobe.com/su
pport/ 
products/creativesuite.html

So does Sun: http://docs
.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0406


>
> Perhaps we should separate it more by calling it
> "About the Gallery project" and then have
"About Gallery 1" and "About
> Gallery 2" subsections under the G1 and G2 main
categories?

I think this is the best approach... and you're right, you
should do  
everything you can to keep these sections very lean,
content-wise.
>
> I haven't been able to
> study the Cluster Tree that closely yet. I would like
to get my  
> hands on the
> two .png version of it and even print on my A3 printer
at work.

Will the sourceforge listserv accept email attachments? If
so, I'll  
email them to gallery-docs. If not, I can post them to
squishypuppy.com.
>
> Christian aka h0bbel


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