Book Image

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

Summary


Creating the 4D User Experience Map can be a lengthy process, especially if we base it on detailed user research, involving both lab and remote tests, but it's worth the effort. No other visualization can summarize the user experience of a solution as a whole in one detailed map.

This map is based on all map types we have discussed so far in this book, but it's much more than the sum of all UX Maps. The top section of the map contains the actual four dimensions: milestones, events, importance, and severity of the problem. The middle section of the map contains the mental model snippets, and the bottom part is reserved for ratings.

The 4D UX Map is a great tool to facilitate communication with stakeholders, and it helps UX designers understand the project. I hope that after reading this chapter, you will not only create 4D UX Maps, but improve this map type and come up with even better map types.

There is one more user experience map type I need to share with you to make the book complete...