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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 6. Solution Mapping Based on User Insights

In the previous chapter, we learned how to design and run tests with real users. In this one, we will continue our epic adventure to understand the users. We will analyze videos and create maps based on the results. We will also design a unique experience tailored to our user's needs.

Note

A solution map is a tool that will help us find solutions and communicate them. They are visual representations of an actionable project plan. Ideally, solution maps should be based on user testing sessions with real users. 

To graphically solve a real-world business problem, we will do the following things:

  • Start with a new opportunity, showcasing a new test design and an exciting problem to be solved.
  • Tag the remote user testing videos. This means watching them and analyzing what we see, highlighting the user insights. To tag, we need to do the following  things:
    • Know what to tag
    • Write good tag titles and comments
    • Select the tag type, with the help of the behaviorist...