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User Experience Mapping

You're reading from User Experience Mapping

Product type Book

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787123502

Pages 352 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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User Experience

Author (1):

Peter W. Szabo

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. How Will UX Mapping Change Your (Users) Life?

2. User Story Map - Requirements by Collaboration and Sticky Notes

3. Journey Map - Understand Your Users

4. Wireflows - Plan Your Product

5. Remote and Lab Tests for Map Creation

6. Solution Mapping Based on User Insights

7. Mental Model Map - A Diagram of the Perceived Reality

8. Behavioral Change Map - The Action Plan of Persuasion

9. The 4D UX Map - Putting It All Together

10. Ecosystem Maps - A Holistic Overview

11. Kaizen Mapping - UX Maps in Agile Product Management

12. References

Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups

Balsamiq Mockups is a great digital tool for sketchy looking, low-fidelity wireframes. You can focus on your vision, and priorities, without being lost in the details of the layout, contents, images, navigation, or technical possibilities. It's probably the closest digital approximation to hand-drawn sketchy wireframes--the ones you make during a meeting or on a napkin in a pub.

Most common UI elements can be found in the UI library on the top of the screen. If you can't see the stripe with UI elements, you need to open it, by clicking on the Show UI Library button (

). Alternatively, you can press Ctrl + L (command + L on Mac) to show/hide the UI library.

Balsamiq comes pre-packed with quite a few UI elements, but you can download more from Mockups To Go at https://mockupstogo.mybalsamiq.com. Mockups To Go is a repository for community-created interface libraries and templates that can be used in Balsamiq Mockups. You can also construct your own reusable...

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Authors (1)

Peter W. Szabo

Peter W. Szabo is one of the world's leading user experience consultants, the principal of the farZenith.com agency. He is a frequent conference speaker, workshop host, and user centricity evangelist. His UX blog, Kaizen-UX.com, gained its popularity for UX management articles and novel user experience approach. He used to be a senior manager leading the UX team at the world's biggest online gambling corporation, Amaya Inc. (known for brands such as PokerStars, BetStars or FullTilt). As UX Director at WhatUsersDo (Europe's largest remote testing platform), he contributed to the widespread acceptance of remote research in the UX industry. Outside of the UX world, he is the proud father of Maya and Magor. He enjoys reading, writing, and playing games (not just computer ones). He is a cat person. Ok, that's an understatement, he is simply crazy for cats.

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