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Intro to User Journey Maps
for Building Better Websites
WordCamp Ottawa 2016 • #wcott • @anthonydpaul
Which design is better? Which cost more?
Both are inappropriate in context (props to Jeff Patton for the cake metaphor)
Websites work the same.
Who is it for?
Where are they using it?
How does it fit into their life?
All of this affects the type of
cake website we make.
website
journey website
journey website
journey website
People are complex
Thoughts and decisions
Tasks to perform
Discovery and advancement
Motivations and anxieties
Anthony D Paul
Director of User Experience
@anthonydpaul
Don’t assume you need this
Documentation is disposable.
Document to ask and answer
questions—to gain shared
understanding.
1. Who Audience groups
2. Why Motivations, anxieties, influencers
3. What / How Decisions, tasks
4. When / Where Devices, scenarios, entrances, exits
Use any fidelity to ask questions and provide answers
Sources for Audience Information
Interviews with clients and subject
matter experts (SMEs)
Pros: Usually easy to access
Cons: Can introduce stereotypes
Can pit interal politics (ranking opinions)
Interviews with customers (users)
Pros: Best source of qualitative stories
Cons: Needs a diverse sampling
Can be a headache to get access and organize
Usability tests with customers (users)
Pros: Best source of qualitative stories
Shortcut to recommendations
Cons: Needs a diverse sampling
Can be a headache to get access and organize
Usability test today’s site
Survey data
Pros: Great quantitative content
Cons: Needs a diverse sampling
Needs to be analyzed
Web analytics
Pros: Easy to access (if it exists)
Cons: Ambiguous, lacks context
Need to be analyzed
Google Analytics > Audience > User Explorer
Google Analytics > User Explorer
Market reports
Pros: Often does the work for you
Cons: Level of specificity is hit and miss
May or may not map to your segments
Google > filetype:pdf
Google > filetype:pdf
For best results,
a blend of info sources
Example Documents
1. Who Audience groups
2. Why Motivations, anxieties, influencers
3. What / How Decisions, tasks
4. When / Where Devices, scenarios, entrances, exits
Define and prioritize
Audience types
1. Who Audience groups
2. Why Motivations, anxieties, influencers
3. What / How Decisions, tasks
4. When / Where Devices, scenarios, entrances, exits
Audience types (with motivations, anxieties, influencers)
Individual persona
1. Who Audience groups
2. Why Motivations, anxieties, influencers
3. What / How Decisions, tasks
4. When / Where Devices, scenarios, entrances, exits
Determine order, optional, and required
User scenario
Decision phases
Decision flow with UI conversations
Google Analytics > User Explorer
Session flow map
1. Who Audience groups
2. Why Motivations, anxieties, influencers
3. What / How Decisions, tasks
4. When / Where Devices, scenarios, entrances, exits
High-level ecosystem flow (email, 3rd-party systems)
Detailed ecosystem flow (login validation)
Example Project
Summer Camp Website
Define and prioritize groups
• Parents
• School groups and educators
• New camp counselors
• Sponsors/Donors/Partners
• Extra credit = Content administrators
Take one group and document “why”
New Camp Parents
• Want child to learn during summer (motivation)
• Heard about camp from a friend (entrance)
• Find site via Google (entrance)
• May have a budget (anxiety)
Document decisions
New Camp Parents
• How is this camp different?
• Are we eligible? Can we afford it?
• Is there availability? How do I sign up?
• Are there mobile driving directions?
Convert decisions into task flows
Is there availability? How do I sign up?
• Access seasonal calendar
• Filter by topic or grade level (e.g.)
• [See available]
• Use sign-up button
Single user and scenario journey map
Homework Assignment
See Eric Meyer’s WC Northeast Ohio 2016 Keynote
Our instinct is to imagine
someone like ourselves.
So many of our users are
nothing like us in any way.
Journeys help us understand
real-world ”stress cases.”
Journeys define who
we care about.
Think about users who
• Have accessibility issues
• Are sad
• Are in a life crisis
• Are hurried
journey website
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