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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [another PATCH]: Kicker find as you type
From:       Florian Graessle <holehan () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-05-04 17:14:22
Message-ID: 427902EE.4060900 () gmx ! de
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seele@obso1337.org wrote:

> mozdev has a crossplatform card sorting tool we can use:
> http://uzilla.mozdev.org/cardsort.html
> 
> i havnt personally used this before, but it is the best referenced cross
> platform cardsort app.

I have personally used it before (plus a lot of the other card sorting
programs out there). Back then, it must have been 6 months or so ago, it
was pretty difficult to install. I have just tried it again and it
failed to download some needed extension. From my quick experience it's
unusable in its current state. So sticking to cardsort would in my
opinion be a very bad choice.

I'd go for http://cardsword.sf.net It looks promising and doesn't depend
on Mozilla as a browser since it's written in Java. I got it to work on
both Mac OSX and Linux without any problems and suppose it should be the
same with Windows.

Nevertheless most card sorting programs in my opinion have one problem
in common: they still need too much interaction from the user. They ask
users to download the software, run it, in the end probably even mail
the results to the card sorting administrator. That's too much for a
rather strenuous task people do not profit from at once. That's why a
card sorting tool should be web based, easy to use, and request from the
user as little interaction beyond the actual sorting as possible.

Florian
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