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cardsorting results

A while ago, many of you helped us out by participating in a cardsorting activity.

I created slips of paper with the names of some frequently used pages on this site and asked you to categorize them. At the time, I aggregated the results and came up with a categorization scheme that seemed to work for a lot of people.

Today I finished applying that scheme to the left-hand menus on this site.

The top menu is things that patrons, libraries and schools might be interested in. The category here was 'public site for patrons'.

If you are logged in, the next link is 'The questions', which includes the current open questions list as well as links to the Buzz (recent questions) and resources for answering questions and working with patrons.

After that is "Technical help", which includes that, as well as statistics and links to general support and documents for L-net.

This is all far from perfect and far from done. There are several pages and documents that aren't represented in the navigation, and we've got to add them. We've also got to test the current set-up to see how well it is working.

Comments

Looking good!

Caleb,

Happy to see what you're doing with the navigation and everything. Also glad that the card sorting activity had some usable feedback to help out with these knotty issues of web design. Cool!