Research methods when you only have 2-3 hours or 2-3days

Todd -

Card sorting makes a good guerrilla method especially if you have
already done some basic user research and have the terminology sorted
out. There are lots of ways to do card sorts but we have our own tools
and techniques which make even paper-based sorts fairly quick - see
www.syntagm.co.uk/design/cardsorting.htm

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: new-bounces at ixda.org [mailto:new-bounces at ixda.org] On Behalf Of
> Todd Zaki Warfel
> Sent: 08 July 2009 06:23
> To: discuss at ixda.org
> Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Research methods when you only have 2-3 hours
> or 2-3days
>
> So, yesterday I asked what your favorite methods for rapid research
> were...