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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

Summary


The ecosystem map places our solution in the greater context of the holistic user experience. Our solution will be the centerpiece of the map. To map the rest of the ecosystem, we will start with six questions related to our solution to find the entities. The distance from the centerpiece will indicate the scale of those entities. We will use the ecosystem map to understand and communicate a holistic overview of the user experience. A stakeholder map is a special ecosystem map, lacking the six directions, containing only the stakeholders for our solution. 

I hope that you have enjoyed creating the user experience maps of this book. For me, writing the first 10 chapters was an amazing journey. In those 10 chapters, I have covered all map types I use through my day-to-day work as a user experience consultant. In fact, this chapter could have been the last. There are no more maps that I can show you. I have shared all my mapping knowledge with you. 

However, this is not the end of the...