Posted by leisareichelt on November 18, 2008 at 3:00pm
if you've been following along you'd be aware that one of the nuts we're currently trying to crack is the modules section of the d.o website - how can we make modules more findable.
in the interest of gathering more information to help make a good decision, i've put together another little cardsorting exercise.
if you have a spare 15mins or so, I'd love if you could take a look at it!
you can find it here: http://disambiguity.optimalsort.com/drupalmodules/
if you have any comments/questions/feedback to the contents of the cardsort or the process, feel free to post them here.
the cardsort is set to close on Friday 21 November.
thanks in advance!
Leisa
Comments
It's not clear what we're sorting
It seems like we're sorting proposed module categories, not modules themselves, right? What are we grouping them into?
I looked at this for about 5 minutes and see very little that could be consolidated into any meta categories. The cards I saw were all pretty distinct and unique. I don't know any good way to group these together in a meaningful way that doesn't just hide information. I certainly wouldn't want to combine any of them as module categories...
So, some direction on what we're being asked to sort and why would be helpful...
Thanks!
-Derek
great feedback!
thanks Derek, that in itself is useful feedback.
yes, we're sorting module categories (it's a list that catch suggested some time ago) - they're new and (i think) improved categories, but I was hoping that it might be possible to condense them down into some meta-categories, just to make the finding/organising task a little easier.
your feedback that you couldn't find a way to group them meaningfully into meta-categories is exactly the kind of thing i'm looking to hear (in addition, I'll also be looking for patterns in the way that people do try to group them)
hope that helps.
Leisa
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Ditto
I feel the same as DWW. I left that comment on your blog post. I tried some grouping, and SORT OF came up with stuff. It's either (1) content / multimedia / content administration (2) development / customization stuff that normal users won't use or (3) sort of meta services which are a huge bundle of everything from web services to mapping and multilingual. Hope that was helpful...
hmm, i agree with dww, its
hmm, i agree with dww, its difficult because all the categories fall into their own categories, i managed to move them around a little and group them but it still did not feel like they were in the correct spots. perhaps the modules should just be dumped and tagged, then using the search you can filter them :)
my 5 cents.
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