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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

Tagging - the science of active watching


We could just watch the videos passively, as we do with a Game of Thrones episode. We would surely have fun and learn from it. Chances are, we will not see any dragons or dire wolves in user testing videos. Instead, we might see much scarier things, such as conversion blockers. They are UX issues slaughtering the well-crafted user experience, leading to abandonment; in other words, they are so bad that the users will leave our site.

An even better way to watch user testing videos is called tagging in the UX research lingo. 

Note

Tagging is a form of insight identification for user testing videos. As a result, short video snippets are created, with a textual description and a quick scaling, based on the issue severity model. Those tags create an independent multi-voice view on the whole experience. They help us to jump straight to the issues and easily spot trends across a set of tests. 

Tagging provides a hidden ace up my sleeve. The video short snippets...