Mindmapping The UX

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

Slide 2: What? • 1970s BBC series • Books: • Use Your Memory, • Master Your Memory, • Use Your Head, • The Speed Reading Book. www.usableworld.terapad.com 2

Slide 3: 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 Normal text in notes 1. 1.1 Heading 3 3 Normal text

Slide 4: Polarised audiences • Learn lists at school • Maps reduces cognitive load and encourages association and learning • No restrictions to the links made. 4 www.usableworld.terapad.com

Slide 5: Left and right brain Left Right sequential simultaneous analytical holistic verbal imagistic logical intuitive perception of counting perception of and measurement shapes/motions linear algorithmic holistic algorithmic processing processing 5

Slide 6: Why? • Leverage (Format, Pithy, Fast, Flexible) • Memory • Visual thinking • Associations • Generate creative mind set www.usableworld.terapad.com 6

Slide 7: How? • Get started! – Central topic – Brainstorm • Use ‘style’ • Reorganise • Export *Source Michael Hollauf Mindmeister www.usableworld.terapad.com 7

Slide 8: When? • Creating • Planning • Writing • Collaborating • Studying • Problem solving • Decision making www.usableworld.terapad.com 8

Slide 9: IA and usability • Note taking • Strategy • Project planning • Expert review – Template – Report – Presentation export www.usableworld.terapad.com 9

Slide 10: IA and usability • Personas/tasks/scenario – Complex information organisation • Information architectures – Flexible formatting www.usableworld.terapad.com 10

Slide 11: Usability reporting Inst a exp nt ort! www.usableworld.terapad.com

Slide 12: A great resource Chuck Frey http://www.mindmap-ebook.com/v2/ www.usableworld.terapad.com 12

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