Original research from the ValidateThat platform

Research

Aggregate UX data pulled from real studies on the ValidateThat platform — card sort patterns, IA benchmarks, and primary data UX teams can cite. Methodology is open-source. Numbers are free to use; please link back when you cite them.

Published reports

What 1,037 card sorts reveal: a patterns report

How users actually organize information. Sort-type mix, study sizes, category counts, and the canonical labels that emerge across 1,000+ real card sorts.

1,037

studies analyzed

4,044

participant responses

4,920

unique category labels

Card sortingInformation architectureUser research methodology

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For journalists & UX writers

All numbers on this site are free to cite and republish — please link back to the specific report. Need a custom slice (by industry, region, study size, time period)? Email ryan@validatethat.io with what you need and I'll usually turn it around within 48 hours.

Methodology + extraction scripts are open source on GitHub for full reproducibility.