From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Make sure your hierarchical structure is correct
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Make sure your hierarchical structure is correct
Once you've put together a draft of your structure, you should test it with users by doing a reverse card sort. This allows you to get quick feedback that the assumptions you made when you created your new information architecture are right before you make any design changes. A reverse card sort is very much like it sounds. Rather than sorting the task cards into groups, participants indicate where they think they'd go within your information architecture hierarchy to perform each task or find each item. Reverse sorts are also sometimes called tree tests because the hierarchical structure of the information architecture looks like roots or branches of a tree. We still run the reverse sort with our abstract information architecture hierarchy, rather than the menu structure we think we'll ultimately create. That way we get to test out the whole structure in one go. The reverse sort gives you a good sense as to whether users can or can't find items. You can count the number of hits, that…
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