1. What Am I Doing Here?
Mind-mapping user tasks
Evgenia (Jenny)
UX Specialist at
Twitter: @grinblo

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Result: Inventory of app functionality
@Grinblo | UX Cafe, London May 30 2013 Internal Future Workshops project mind map
Use with existing or new products
‣ Summarise an existing product
‣ Use in planning stages of a new product
Use anytime

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We use them for
‣ Overview of app
‣ Planning usability tests
‣ Quality assurance
‣ Focus on tasks, not screens
‣ Easy to create and update
Why use mind maps?

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“as a user, I can [verb]…”
‣ Use verbs: set up a profile, redeem a coupon
‣ Focus on task, not the screen or page
Tasks vs. Screens
Step 1: High-level Tasks

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Focus on the user need
‣ Instead of writing “browse someone’s profile,”
go for “learn more about someone.”
Needs vs. Features
Step 2: Sort Features Into Branches

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Focus on what the product does
‣ Show features in design/dev on dotted lines
‣ Leave out future ideas to avoid a messy map
Leave suggestions out
Step 2: Sort Features Into Branches

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Step 3: Run through it like a user
@Grinblo | UX Cafe, London May 30 2013 Internal Future Workshops project mind map

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Twitter
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UX Booth Tutorial
http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/stuck-in-the-details-mind-map-user-tasks/
More on the Whiteboard app
http://whiteboard.futureworkshops.com/
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