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We can “borrow” tasks from any previous card sorting or usability testing that we’ve done for this site.
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Create We should create as many tasks as you we need to cover the key parts of your our tree, but don’t we shouldn't ask a given participant more than 8-10 tasks.

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Decide We should decide if you we need different tasks (and therefore separate tests) for different audiences, or if they can all “reasonably pretend” to do each other’s tasks.

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Avoid the most common tree-testing pitfall task pitfalls by using our guidelines to write clear, effective tasks.
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Be We need to be careful and consistent in marking your our correct answers, because there may be more than you we expected.

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In most cases, you we should let participants skip (give up on) tasks to avoid user frustration and pollution of your the results.

 

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