UXSORT

[ Card Sorting Tool for User Experience ]
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License Agreement

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details. To see a copy of the GNU General Public License, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 

In addition to the GNU General Public License, the author of the software wishes that you agree with the following conditions to compensate the cost of developing and enhancing the software:

  • I agree to advocate this software to my students, colleagures, friends and family members.
  • I will add this link to my blog, course web site, or any other sites that I own or can post.
 

Use after download

Setup steps:

Unzip the file to your local drive.Go the unzipped folder. That is it. No installation is required for Windows XP, Vista. Run UXSort.exe to start to use it. 

System Requirement:

Windows XP, Vista with Microsoft .Net 2.0 or .Net 3.5. Before downloading .Net, try to run uxsort.exe. If everything works, your OS system may have met all the system requirements.
 

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, update their complete status. Then click New Report to run a cluster analysis and view the report.

 

 Release_Date

Version

Note  

11/7/2009

v1.7.0.1 

Fixed a few bugs per Claudio's request. Add field validations on entry forms. (Recommended)

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9/9/2009

v1.6.0.1
Fixed a few bugs. Creating reports/dendrogram based on a single user's sorting data. Distance matrix calculated with different weights for cards on different levels (currently defaulted to 1.0, 0.9, 0.8 ....)

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3/15/2009

v1.5.0.1 

Added Initial Bucket to the Cards Managgement page. Changed Project Properties page layout. Changed Card entry form layout and added instructions. Changed User entry form layout and added instructions. Changed Run Sorting Session - Session Detail form entry. UX research has to manually set whether a user session is complete, which is to avoid crashes to the cluster analysis. Changed data completion detection on the Report page. 

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10/20/2008

 v1.0.0.1 

First release of UXSort.Features include:

  • User, card, schedule and session managements
  • Sort up to 1000 cards
  • Sort into more than 1 or 2 levels.
  • Sort alogrithms include: single-linkage, complete-linkage, and average-linkage
  • Support Squared Euclidean distance and Non-squared Euclidean distance
  • Interactive dendrogram
  • Initial report summary  
     

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