Week 9.2

Today in class we did our open card sorting. From my observations most of my worries actually came true. Most people put all the candy types into one big category and didn't split them up how I wanted. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. I'm assuming that this is how they want it to be organized so we will see how the remote sorts go as well. My first sorter basically set the site up the with the same navigation that I already has. This was good to see that maybe the site wasn't as disorganized as I thought and the real problem lies with the number of links on the home page.

My second sorter had a similar technique, she just put things into more categories. Mostly everyone put the calendar of events with the holidays and separated that from the holiday chocolate. This is something that I wasn't expecting, but makes sense as to why they would do so. She also decided to put the Breaking Bad experience into publicity which I also think is a good idea. This was originally on the home page and all of my people sorting didn't see the connection which I had trouble seeing as well with the site. With putting it into publicity this would eliminate the problem of confusion when you go to a candy site. 

My third sorter we had durring class did mostly similar things to the first two. She did not separate the breaking bad experience and kept them in their own category, but she did include the calendar of events into the holidays. One thing that she did do was separate "southwestern and mexican flavors" and "sugar free chocolate" when I asked what category she gave this group she said it was specialty items. This is something that I thought I could include in my closed card sort and see what sort of results I get.