Cognitive Friction

If you’ve ever done any card sorting, you’ll know what a pain in the ass it is to make notes during the session and to analyse the data afterwards. There are a few decent spreadsheets for data analysis in circulation, but if you want a fancy dendrogram from the data too, then you’re going to need more than Excel. I’ve used XSort for card sorting, as it does away with the index cards, the note-taking sheets and the spreadsheets, while providing excellent stats on the sessions and a dendrogram to boot. Today, the app was released for free download, so if you are running OS X, go get a copy. It was always pretty cheap, but now you have no excuse.

You can download XSort at xsortapp.com.

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