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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

The solution map


A solution map is a tool that will help us communicate our solution with stakeholders. It's also a visual summary of the experience we want to create. 

Note

Mapping based on the issues and positive findings of remote user testing will lead to better communication, user experiences, and products. To be able to create solution maps, we need to analyze the tests, categorize the findings, and then collate and summarize the results. We also need to add our creative thinking to come up with a solution. 

Our opportunity was not to redesign Contiki. The redesign should never be chosen as the opportunity of a project. Even as an output, or part of a solution, a total redesign is drastic, but sometimes needed.

We need to create a tailor-made experience for adventure seekers. User experience is moving toward custom experiences for smaller and smaller user groups. Eventually, for unique users, based on the data we know about that specific person. 

Note

Each solution and each solution map...