As a precursor to cardsorting or as an independent method, free-listing is a technique that can help you determine the scope of a content domain while providing some insight into how the domain is structured.
Rashmi Sinha
spends her time researching, creating, and analyzing interactive experiences. Her current obsessions are cognitive anthropology and distributed cognition. She will be talking about free-listing and other user research methods at the AIfIA Leadership Seminar at the upcoming Information Architecture Summit in Portland.