Card sorting is an information-architecture technique that enables a group of subject-matter experts or users to either
- provide input to the definition of a new information architecture for a Web site or application
- evaluate and provide feedback on a Web site’s or application’s existing information architecture
During a typical card-sorting exercise, participants organize a set of cards comprising navigation items for a particular context into categories or groups that seem logical to them. Participants can name these groups and, thus, create a folksonomy, or user-defined taxonomy. Read More
from UXmatters http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2017/01/using-card-sorting-to-create-stronger-information-architectures.php