How to use the Card Sorting Study Generator.
Cards should represent concepts at a comparable level of detail. Mixing broad departments with individual actions makes the sorting result difficult to interpret.
Make the workflow fit your task.
Choose comparable content items and define whether participants create groups or use supplied categories. Keep card wording neutral and plan how to interpret patterns without treating every grouping as a finished navigation design.
- What you provide
- Supplied content inventory and study goal.
- What you get
- Card set and study instructions.
See the input and the result.
Illustrative input and output · a teaching example, not a live WebAct run
Example input
Prepare an open card sort for task-level content. Current labels mix broad groups and actions. Actual content covers viewing invoices, changing payment methods, exporting reports and editing notification settings.
Completed example
Cards: - View invoices - Change payment method - Export a report - Edit notification settings Participant instruction: Group these tasks in a way that makes sense to you, then name each group. Review note: all cards describe comparable tasks; no predefined Billing or Settings group is supplied in this open sort.
Load this input into the prompt, then copy it to WebAct to try the task. Your result may differ from the illustration.
Decisions and troubleshooting.
Should broad categories and individual actions be mixed as cards?
Use a consistent level of detail unless the study deliberately examines that difference. Mixed scope can make groupings difficult to interpret.
Why are participants sorting by wording rather than meaning?
Remove category clues or inconsistent labels from the cards. Check whether the wording itself is leading the result.
Try it with your own source.
Replace the example with your material in the task prompt. Keep the requirements you need, then copy the task into WebAct.
Customize and copy the task ↑