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Practical UX Design

You're reading from   Practical UX Design A foundational yet practical approach to UX that delivers more creative, collaborative, holistic, and mature design solutions, regardless of your background or experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880896
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maps


 

"Everything is a map of something"

 
 --Richard Saul Wurman

As you read the next section, think about where you are right now, physically. Did you use a map to get there? Did you have to navigate any obstacles? Were there distractions? Did you make any new discoveries? Did you meet your objectives? Were your tasks easy to complete?

Everyday we are on a journey that requires thought, guidance, and guarantees that we will arrive successfully. It may not even be a physical journey. Writing this book was a journey, for example, with a very clear destination: You reading it! Most of our daily activities, such as shopping, commuting to work, and using our phones, are all fairly easy to accomplish now, but think back to something like learning to drive, starting a new job, learning an instrument, and so on. What you might now take for granted was new at one time and required guidance from an instructor, a colleague, a book, and a lot of practice. Maybe you took to these new tasks quickly, while...

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