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User Experience Mapping

By : Peter W. Szabo
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User Experience Mapping

By: Peter W. Szabo

Overview of this book

Do you want to create better products and innovative solutions? User experience maps will help you understand your users and improve communication with them. Maps can also champion user-centricity within the organization. This book is the first print resource covering two advanced mapping techniques—the behavioral change map and the 4D UX map. You’ll explore user story maps, task models, and journey maps, while also creating wireflows, mental model maps, ecosystem maps, and solution maps. You’ll learn how to use insights from real users to create and improve your maps and products. The book delves into each major user experience map type, ranging from simple techniques based on sticky notes to more complex map types, and guides you in solving real-world problems with maps. You’ll understand how to create maps using a variety of software products, including Adobe Illustrator, Balsamiq Mockups, Axure RP, and Microsoft Word. Besides, you can draw each map type with pen and paper too! The book also showcases communication techniques and workshop ideas. You’ll learn about the Kaizen-UX management framework, developed by the author, now used by many agencies and in-house UX teams in Europe and beyond. Buying this book will give you hundreds of hours worth of user experience knowledge, from one of the world’s leading UX consultants. It will change your users’ world for the better. If you are still not convinced, we have hidden some cat drawings in it, just in case.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
Free Chapter
1
How Will UX Mapping Change Your (Users) Life?
12
References

Moderated versus unmoderated tests


In a lab, the facilitator sits next to the user, who will read the tasks, and help if the user gets hopelessly stuck, for example, if the Wi-Fi is not working, the lights go out, or the recording software crashes. For remote tests, the user encounters the facilitator as a voice. This voice can also read the tasks and help with fixing technical issues.

The main purpose of the facilitator is to ask questions; to explore why some things are harder to understand. The facilitator observes the test. They should not interfere with the user's natural journey--well, unless the user is stuck, lost, or has technical difficulties. This can be hard, especially if the facilitator is attached to the solution. 

Note

The facilitator should not take notes during the test. This is why the tests are recorded. Moreover, the observers can take notes, and sometimes even transmit their questions to the facilitator. However, if the facilitator takes notes, their attention is split...