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User Experience Mapping

By : Peter W. Szabo
Book Image

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

Contiki adventure


We could have continued with the preceding chapter's opportunity. However, when I started working on this book, I decided to give you 11 opportunities. In all, 11 different projects, to showcase how versatile user experience mapping can be, not just to show you various applications of mapping, but also to ignite your creativity. In this chapter, our opportunity will also have another test design example. I believe that this chapter's example will help you to understand the preceding chapter a bit better. Now, let's start the adventure.

Contiki is a travel company, specializing in vacations for 18-35 year olds. One of our personas is Adam, the Adventure Seeker. He needs inspiration. We want to find a new and exciting way to inspire our users.

We could create a big searchable database with all possible adventure travel destinations. Would that be the most exciting way to find an adventure? Would Adam's friends share that link on social media? Would Adam consider that as a boring...