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In The design phase: creating new trees in Chapter 3, we strongly recommended doing more than one round of tree testing to get a site tree performing well:
- Two rounds is very common – round 1 for the untested tree (existing or new)original tree and the proposed replacement, and round 2 to test revisions to make sure our changes actually solve the problems we found.
- Three rounds is ideal – round 1 for the original tree (along with an open card sort to generate ideas), round 2 for a few alternative trees to compete against each other, then round 3 to test revisions to the tree that won out in round 2.
- If parts of our chosen tree are still not performing well, we can easily do further rounds to keep improving our results.
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