Many card-based design tools have been produced, initially to aid creativity and user participation in design, with an upsurge post-2000 when numerous card decks were developed. Reviewers have classified the tools using samples ranging from five to thirty-eight. Our comprehensive inventory and analysis of 155 card-based tools offers a more robust classification, with three-quarters aiming to facilitate creative thinking, human-centred design, or domain-specific methods. The few scientific trials of these tools indicate they enable designers to generate more innovative concepts, and feedback indicates that cards can aid the design process and provide information, methods, or good practice in handy form. However, cards are usually tested and applied by their developers, so more independent trials are needed to establish their effectiveness.

已经产生了许多基于卡片的设计工具，最初是为了帮助创造力和用户参与设计，随着2000年后开发了许多卡片组的兴起，这种热潮开始了。审阅者使用5到38个样本对工具进行了分类。我们对155种基于卡的工具的全面清单和分析提供了更可靠的分类，其中四分之三旨在促进创造性思维，以人为本的设计或特定领域的方法。这些工具的一些科学试验表明，它们可使设计人员产生更多创新的概念，而反馈表明，卡片可以帮助设计过程并以方便的形式提供信息，方法或良好实践。但是，卡通常由其开发人员进行测试和应用，因此需要进行更多独立的试验才能确定其有效性。