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If you still feel unsure about the results of your card sorting, recruit a few willing volunteers to go through this process and compare the results. That way, you havean outside perspective on how intuitive your site’s navigation is.
Information Flow
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Charts
Another method of laying out the content of a website is to create an information flow treechart. This helps break down content into categories while also showing the paths a user might take. Using the information as the example of card sorting, shown below is an information flow tree chart example of the IKEA website. Though it looks similar, information flow trees charts are better at representing a hierarchy of information.
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