UXSORT

[ Card Sorting Tool for User Experience ]
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What is UXSORT? (Now v1.7.0.1 is available for download)

UXSORT is a card sorting application that allows usability/user experience professionals to plan card sorting activities, manage users and cards, collect user card sorting data, analyze data, and create a final report.

 

UXSORT is developed by a user experience researcher in leisure time to help internal teams to quick conduct card sorting activities and view the results immediately. It is designed particularly for card sorting on a large number of items (up to 1000 cards) onto a multi-level hierarchical structure.

 

UXSORT (v1.7, v1.6, v1.5, v1.0) is free of charge. Use of uxsort should comply with the GNU licence agreement. You are welcome to download and start to use it. If you find any issues with the tool, please feel free to file a bug on the [contact us] page. 

 

New with v1.7: this is so far the latest version by 11/7/2009 with (a) a few bugs fixed, (b) distance matrix calculated with different weights for cards on different levels (defaulted to 10% down bucket levels), and (c) allow dendrograming on a single user's sorting data. For version 2.0, I will add a few features including handling missing values, user added cards, custom weights, custom color ring for dendrogram, and probably suggested grouping lables.  

Features

Easy to use

  • Easy to add cards: You may edit your cards in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet. You can copy all your cards and paste them to the card list.
  • Easy to add users: You may add just the user name. You may copy and paste users to the user list.
  • Easy to sort cards: The user can drag-n-drop a card to a bucket he/she created.

 

Powerful sorting

  • Sort up to 1000 cards
  • Cards can be sorted into more than 2 levels deep.

 

Multiple sorting alogrithms

  • Support Single-Linkage, Complete-Linkage and Average-Linkage clustering methods
  • Support Squared Euclidean Distance, Euclidean Distance
  • You can play with the sorting alogrithms and view the dendrogram instaneously.

 

Better reporting

  • Produce a report for your study with participant information and cluster analysis results
  • Enable interaction with the dendrogram to try different clustering methods and update the dendrogram on the report summary.

 

Open XML based data format

 

Use uxsort (FREE)

Download:

Steps:

  • Go to download page to download the zipped file. 
  • Unzip the file to your local drive.
  • Go the unzipped folder.
  • Run uxsort .exe to start to use it.

 

System Requirement:

  • Windows XP, Vista with Microsoft .Net 2.0 or .Net 3.5 Framework. Run UXSort.exe first before downloading it. Your system may have .Net Framework installed, particularly for Vista and Windows 7.

 

 

Get Started:

  • When you click on uxsort .exe, uxsort application will show up.
  • Click on New Project to start a new project.
  • Click on New Card to add some cards to the list. 
  • Click on New User to add some users to the list.  
  • Click Run Sorting Session. Select a user and click on Run Session tool button to start the card sorting session for that user.
  • Once you have more than 2 users' card sorting data, you can click New Report to run a cluster analysis and view the report.