Card Sorting Exercise Results

All right, so, how did your card-sorting exercise go? 0:00 I hope it wasn't too stressful, and it shouldn't have taken you too long, 0:04 maybe 10, 15 minutes at the most. 0:08 Go ahead and grab your results, 0:09 because now we can compare what you did to what Slack did on their website. 0:11 So, Slack took those 23 pieces of content and 0:17 organized them like this within the footer of their website. 0:20 Their groups are Company, Product, Resources, and Extras. 0:25 And feel free to pause and look them over to get a feel for what they did here. 0:31 Now, if you didn't get these results, that's completely fine. 0:36 Everyone will have a different set of results because everyone's perspective is 0:40 a little bit different. 0:44 What I do hope is that you took some of the similar pieces and 0:45 grouped them together in some way. 0:50 For example, Why Slack is all about the features and benefits of using the app. 0:52 And that's a natural fit with Customer Stories, as well as Pricing. 0:58 In the Company section, About Us and 1:04 Careers work together, along with Press and Brand Guidelines. 1:06 And when you group together the Download Page, Help Center, Guides, API and eBooks, 1:11 you've got a bunch of stuff that it's all about educating or helping the user. 1:17 So Resources is a good name. 1:21 Now, some of you out there might take issue with Extras as a category name, 1:24 is it lazy? 1:30 Is it vague? 1:31 I'm not a fan of it either. 1:32 It's like the junk drawer of links but I get why they did it. 1:33 They took what was left and they grouped them, but I would 1:38 have tried to come up with divisions that put everything some place logical. 1:41 Personally I would have grouped Blog and Podcast together somewhere, and probably 1:46 would have stuck the Gartner Report and Slack Fund into the Company group. 1:52 Since Slack at Work lists jobs with partner companies, 1:56 it might make sense to put it in the group with Partners. 2:01 What might make a lot of sense is to have a separate developer's group with API, 2:04 App Directory, Partners, and Slack at Work together. 2:10 It might not be perfect, but I feel like it makes more sense than what they've got. 2:14 Now, if you're Slack, 2:19 and you get get a series of card sorting results like this, it can be helpful 2:21 to see the different prospectives people have about your content. 2:25 You can see what they believe the relationships are between pieces, and 2:28 how they'd group and label them. 2:33 So try your own card sort with your own website, and 2:36 you may be surprised what you discover. 2:41