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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

Creating user story maps digitally


You can use any software to create a map digitally, even Microsoft Word as we have seen in the previous chapter. You should pick the software you are most familiar with. In this chapter, we will use an online tool, StoriesOnBoard, available as a web app at http://storiesonboard.com. You can try the tool for free in the first 30 days. This tool is great for creating and discussing user stories with remote team members because it has real-time collaboration capabilities. It was a new tool at the time of writing this book, released on May 30, 2016; it is very promising, though.

Creating a new board

Similar to real life, you need a wall for your sticky notes. While in the real world building a wall inside the office might be problematic, digitally it's just a few clicks. First, you need to register to be able to use the product, but I assume that you will have no difficulties with that. After registering, you will start with a view where you can create a new...