Card sorting with user who have never seen your product before

1. What are the disadvantages of card sorting?
2. What are the different types of card sorting?
3. What is the purpose of the card sorting exercise?

What are the disadvantages of card sorting?

The Disadvantages of Card Sorting

Card sorting ignores tasks – you can use card sorting to understand how user's group data without reference to your product. You need to be cautious about how you translate those results into your product. We may change groupings when we have to do things with the data set.

What are the different types of card sorting?

The three card sorting techniques you can choose from — open, closed, and hybrid — will each tell you something different about how people understand and group your information. Choosing the right technique at the right time is key to gathering high-quality, relevant data to inform your design decisions.

What is the purpose of the card sorting exercise?

Card sorting is a method used to help design or evaluate the information architecture of a site. In a card sorting session, participants organize topics into categories that make sense to them and they may also help you label these groups.