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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

Kaizen-UX manifesto


Kaizen-UX is an agile management framework, which uses maps to communicate and understand the users. The core of Kaizen-UX is the continuous innovation in an agile way. We value the following things:

  • Maps and communication over comprehensive UX documentations
  • People and interactions over processes and tools
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation 
  • Responding to change over rigorously following a plan
  • The users' needs over business goals

If you think that this is the agile manifesto tailored for UX teams, you are spot-on. I was inspired by agilemanifesto.org and SCRUM when creating the Kaizen-UX framework. 

If you are familiar with the Agile Manifesto, you might have noticed that our manifesto has five elements, instead of four. If not, here are the four elements of the original Agile Manifesto:

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over...