Card Sorting - Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches

[email protected] (Jakob Nielsen) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:10:00 -0700

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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for August 31 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/word-matching.html
	
Summary:
It's easy to bias study participants, whether in user testing or in card
sorting, if they focus on matching stimulus words instead of working on
the underlying problem.
		
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