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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

Designing the user journey


The path through a system is a user's journey. This path is composed of many interactions. It should be designed to maximize the opportunity while minimizing the outputs.

Usually, you want to design your first journey map early, before any interface elements are designed, before a single line of code has been written.  Then, you should revisit, improve, or even redesign the journey from time-to-time, to make sure that it stays relevant and fresh.

Note

As a visual representation, the user's journey can be distilled into a journey map, reflecting the behavior of a persona.

One of the reasons for creating task models is that they serve as a base for our user journey. We will create our journey map on top of our task model from the previous section, literally.

To do this, make sure that you have the task model open, and the Layers panel open (Window > Layers). Now, click on the Create New Layer button (

) at the bottom of the panel. Initially, this will be called Layer...