Study template: card sort
Let people group your content
Find out how users naturally group your content, before you build the navigation.Paste your URL and Fiuto builds this card sort around your product, free, in minutes. Every card is yours to change before launch.
A preview player for the card sort template. It steps through the 4 blocks a respondent meets, resting on the card sort.
How it works
Fiuto runs your full research loop
Paste a URL and Fiuto takes it from there. No research experience needed.
What you will learn
4 blocks, about 5 minutes to answer.
- How people mentally group your content or features
- What category labels feel natural to them
- Where your current structure matches, or misses, their expectations
The study, block by block
In the order a respondent meets them. Every prompt is rewritten around your product when you paste the URL.
Intake form
A few details before the study starts.
your name, email, your role
Instruction
Card sort task
Drag the cards into groups that feel natural to you, and name each group whatever feels right. There are no correct answers here, we are interested in your instinct.
Card sort
Imagine you're looking for something in an app's settings. Sort these items into groups that make sense to you.
16 cards, open sort: they name the groups
Open text
Was anything hard to place?
Optional
Who it is for
For a designer, product manager, or content lead about to draw a navigation, a settings page, or a help centre: anywhere the labels and the groups are still yours to decide. It suits the moment before the structure is built, when a sort is cheaper than a redesign.
If the structure already exists and the question is whether people can find things in it, the tree test checks that without showing them the design.
Make it yours
Each method in this study has its own guide: what it measures, what to change, and what to avoid.
Card sort
Read how the card sort works and how to word it for your product. Card sort guide.
Survey questions
Read how the survey questions works and how to word it for your product. Survey questions guide.
Before you launch
The notes the template ships with, from the researcher who wrote it.
- 15 to 30 cards is the sweet spot. Fewer feels trivial, more feels exhausting.
- For an open sort, leave categories empty and ask people to name their own groups. For a closed sort, give them 4 to 7 categories. More than 7 and the cognitive load defeats the point.
- Pilot with 2 or 3 colleagues first. Any card that takes more than a few seconds to place is usually too ambiguous, so reword it before the full run.
What you get back
AI testers run the study first and report what they found, so you see whether the task reads and whether the questions land before a real person opens the link. Then the real responses arrive: every click, rating, and answer per respondent, and Fiuto's reading of them as findings, a readout you can share behind a link, and a deck.
Your data is yours: results as JSON or CSV through a per-study token, or over MCP from the coding agent you build in.
Frequently asked questions
01How long does the card sort take to answer?
About 5 minutes. 4 blocks: the intake, the task or the questions, and the follow-ups. Fiuto shows the estimate to respondents on the study's first screen.
02Can I change the blocks?
Yes, every one. Fiuto rewrites the template around your product when you paste the URL, and you can edit any prompt, add a block, remove one, or change the order before you launch. Save the result as your own template to reuse it.
03Who answers it?
AI testers first, so you see what the study finds before anyone real does. Then real people: recruited from a global panel of 300,000+ participants powered by Prolific, with demographic filters, or your own users when you share the link. Respondents open the link and answer, no account needed.
04Is this template free?
Yes. Every template and every block type is on every plan, including Free. The free plan includes 1 live study a month, 10 responses per study, and 600 AI credits a month. No card, no time limit.