ToolCraft conventionFoundational
Optimal Workshop
The standard toolkit for card sorting, tree testing and first-click studies.
Definition
A suite of information architecture research tools, including open and closed card sorts, tree tests and click tests, with analysis built for each method.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
Good for
- Card sorting
- Tree testing
- Information architecture validation
Watch out for
Specialist tooling. If you are not doing IA research, most of it goes unused.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Often used with
These usually appear in the same screen or the same decision.
- Card SortingResearch method
- Information ArchitectureResearch method
- Tree TestingResearch method
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.