Week 8b out of class Card Sorting activity

In class on Wednesday we did a series of different card sorting activities. Three people took a look at our cards and sorted them in the best way that they could giving them different categories for each group then over the weekend we had people do a closed card sorting activies where the participants looked through the cards and sorted then named the categories. The results to the closed card sorting activity were 2 people used the same catagories. and three people had the same administrations catagories. This helped me realize that adimistartion would probally be an important thing to take a look at and have as a main catagorie for our final project

For the closed card sorting with categories I had five categories which were the following Administration, Community Guidelines , Community Resources Meetings school district and Quick links. The first person who sorted in the closed sorting actually added another category of community Data.

The next person for the open sorting also added another category of within the community. I liked this category she put things in her like the fire department and the public works. I thought this worked well because it includes parks and recreation which was something I was having difficult finding a place for.

My final participant for this did not add any new categories but they had a totally new view on some of the cards and where they went.

I looked into the closed card sorting into more depth and this is the results of all three.

It was interesting to see the sections In dark blue are the ones that are exactly the same. The admissions, Community Guidelines and Meeting categories have a lot of similarities. This was something that was not questioned as much as the rest of them. Quick links was all over the place having a few that were constant and a few that were not as much. Lower providence township facebook was put in the quick link categories by every participant.