Download - Mindmapping The UX
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
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
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
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!
A great resource
Chuck Frey
http://www.mindmap-ebook.com/v2/
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