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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

Chapter 10. Ecosystem Maps - A Holistic Overview

Ecosystem maps are powerful tools to facilitate communication and help with the decision-making process. Unlike all other maps we have seen in this book, the ecosystem maps will show our solution's relationship with other solutions and entities in the world, instead of exploring the inner workings of our solution; this is why I'm fascinated by ecosystem maps. 

Note

The ecosystem map places our solution in the greater context of the holistic user experience. This map aids the identification and integration of complex, interdisciplinary information of the user experience ecosystem. The primary benefit of the ecosystem map is finding and communicating threats, enablers, synergies, incompatibilities, motivators, and trade-offs between different entities. Those entities are often solutions our users use or consider using.

In this chapter, we will do the following things: 

  • Introduce our opportunity
  • Define the ecosystem
  • Explore how we can map an ecosystem...