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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

The Amazon miracle


In this chapter, we will map how Amazon changes users' behaviors. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Amazon for their behavior change solutions. In fact, I'm thankful for their great service. I never leave home without my Kindle, and I buy 80% of my books there. I believe that we can learn from Amazon. They successfully disrupted the e-commerce industry, starting with books, expanding to cover many different areas. Nowadays, you can get home delivery from restaurants through Prime Now, or store petabytes of data storage on AWS.

Amazon moved far from selling books in the early 90s. They have surpassed Walmart as the retailer with the largest market capitalization in the States. 

No matter what you do, you can learn from the simple and more advanced techniques used by Amazon to make the customers happier, their lives easier, while balancing that with their business goals. Even if you don't want to be the next Jeff Bezos, you should aim to create a solution that has...