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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

Your opportunity


This chapter is all about you and your opportunity. Each of the previous chapters contained a unique opportunity, chosen by me. This chapter gives you tools beyond mapping. It gives you a framework to change the users' lives. 

We can solve any real-life product design problems with an agile approach and an open mind. Most of the time, picking your fight is the hardest decision. Most problems found in product design or UX design are daunting. If you have just started working on a project, or you are about to build your start-up, you can pick from dozens of opportunities. After watching a few videos of users struggling with your solution or similar solutions, the number of issues can skyrocket. Before the end of the day, you are faced with more issues than you can hope to solve in a year. So, how do you pick a fight?

Your first opportunity should always be a quick win--a fruit hanging so low that it ripens on ground level. At first, most organizations will be skeptical at best...