Mindmapping The UX

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Open your mind – Map it! Leveraging Mind Maps for User-Centred Design and UX www.usableworld.terapad.c om 1

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Learn how to use mind mapping to improve your UX work - Presented at Oz-Ia 2007 in Sydney on 23 Sept

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Open your mind – Map it!

Leveraging Mind Maps for User-Centred Design and UX

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What?

• 1970s BBC series

• Books:

• Use Your Memory,

• Master Your Memory,

• Use Your Head,

• The Speed Reading Book.

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Hierarchical structure

• A diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks

or other items linked to and arranged radially in a

clockwise direction around a central key word or

idea.

TITLE

1. Heading 1

    1.1 Heading 2

      1. 1.1 Heading 3

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Normal text in notes

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Polarised audiences

• Learn lists at school

• Maps reduces cognitive load and

encourages association and learning

• No restrictions to the links made.

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Left and right brain

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Left Right

sequential simultaneous

analytical holistic

verbal imagistic

logical intuitive

perception of counting and measurement

perception of shapes/motions

linear algorithmic processing

holistic algorithmic processing

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Why?

• Leverage (Format, Pithy, Fast, Flexible)

• Memory

• Visual thinking

• Associations

• Generate creative mind set

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How?

• Get started!– Central topic – Brainstorm

• Use ‘style’

• Reorganise

• Export

*Source Michael Hollauf Mindmeisterwww.usableworld.terapad.com 7

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When?

• Creating

• Planning

• Writing

• Collaborating

• Studying

• Problem solving

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IA and usability

• Note taking• Strategy• Project planning• Expert review

– Template– Report– Presentation export

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IA and usability

• Personas/tasks/scenario– Complex information organisation

• Information architectures– Flexible formatting

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Usability reporting

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Instant export!

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A great resource

Chuck Frey

http://www.mindmap-ebook.com/v2/

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