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Hopefully, you were able to compile your own results from the card-sorting exercise from the previous video. Check out the results that Slack discovered.
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All right, so,
how did your card-sorting exercise go?
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I hope it wasn't too stressful, and
it shouldn't have taken you too long,
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maybe 10, 15 minutes at the most.
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Go ahead and grab your results,
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because now we can compare what you did
to what Slack did on their website.
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So, Slack took those 23
pieces of content and
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organized them like this within
the footer of their website.
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Their groups are Company,
Product, Resources, and Extras.
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And feel free to pause and look them over
to get a feel for what they did here.
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Now, if you didn't get these results,
that's completely fine.
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Everyone will have a different set of
results because everyone's perspective is
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a little bit different.
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What I do hope is that you took
some of the similar pieces and
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grouped them together in some way.
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For example, Why Slack is all about the
features and benefits of using the app.
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And that's a natural fit with
Customer Stories, as well as Pricing.
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In the Company section, About Us and
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Careers work together,
along with Press and Brand Guidelines.
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And when you group together the Download
Page, Help Center, Guides, API and eBooks,
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you've got a bunch of stuff that it's
all about educating or helping the user.
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So Resources is a good name.
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Now, some of you out there might take
issue with Extras as a category name,
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is it lazy?
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Is it vague?
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I'm not a fan of it either.
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It's like the junk drawer of links but
I get why they did it.
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They took what was left and
they grouped them, but I would
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have tried to come up with divisions
that put everything some place logical.
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Personally I would have grouped Blog and
Podcast together somewhere, and probably
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would have stuck the Gartner Report and
Slack Fund into the Company group.
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Since Slack at Work lists
jobs with partner companies,
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it might make sense to put it
in the group with Partners.
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What might make a lot of sense is to have
a separate developer's group with API,
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App Directory, Partners,
and Slack at Work together.
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It might not be perfect, but I feel like
it makes more sense than what they've got.
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Now, if you're Slack,
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and you get get a series of card sorting
results like this, it can be helpful
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to see the different prospectives
people have about your content.
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You can see what they believe
the relationships are between pieces, and
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how they'd group and label them.
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So try your own card sort
with your own website, and
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you may be surprised what you discover.
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