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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

Credibility


Imagine that you have reached a website that claims that you just won £10,000. You just need to give your name and home address. Chances are you would close the site right away. Now, imagine that you go to a brick-and-mortar grocery store; when you enter the building, you are greeted by loud music and a man in a suit who gives you an oversized check while a camera is pointed at you; he tells you that you won £10,000, requesting your name and home address. The message is exactly the same, yet you would react to it quite differently. Why? This is because your trust for the website is quite low, especially compared to men in suits. 

Let's take another example. Let's say you feel pain when you place weight on your leg. You search the Internet. Most likely you will find that you have three different kinds of terminal disease, but for the sake of argument let's assume that you find out that it's a sprained ankle from a close friend on Facebook; she suggests elastic bandages and taking...