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UX design can be a very challenging task. A lot happens between conceiving of an idea or concept and delivering a ready-to-use product. UX designers must create products that meets user’s needs. Unfortunately, between the politics of various stakeholders and a variety of other inputs to the UX design process, the user can sometimes get lost in the shuffle.

Skilled UX designers and teams use tools such as empathy mapping to help them create products that keep the user or customer at the center of the design process, resulting in a product that resonates with users and provides a good user experience. But what is an empathy map, what are its uses, and how does empathy mapping fit into the UX design process?

In this article, I’ll answer all of your questions about empathy maps. From how to fill in an empathy map to what empathy-mapping tools you can use, you’ll learn everything you need to know to incorporate empathy mapping into your UX design process and use it effectively. Read More

Wireframes play an important role in both the design and development of mobile apps. As you make decisions about an app’s functionality and create wireframes to depict your design solutions, your wireframes pass through various stages.

Different UX design teams follow different approaches in creating mobile-app wireframes. Some may help you come through with flying colors, while others may lead to failure. In this article, I’ll describe eight important steps that can help a mobile-app design company to build best-in-class wireframes for their projects. So let’s begin.

Creating Mobile-App Wireframes: A Step-by-Step Guide

The overall process of creating a mobile-app wireframe comprises eight steps. Read More

AI-powered user-story generators present a very interesting use case for large language models (LLMs). These applications can assist in the creation of user stories, an essential task in agile development and product management.

I’ve tested a few of them and used Stories on Board, Cookup.AI, Easy-Peasy.AI, and a tool that IBM Consulting has developed, IBM Assistant, to assess the quality of their output in two very different scenarios, as follows:

• Scenario 1—An online application helps strategists create value-chain diagrams for client companies. A value chain is an artifact that strategists use to visualize activities that are strategically relevant to a business and the links between them. This is a useful strategic-management tool that helps give a fuller picture of an organization’s cost drivers and sources of differentiation.
• Scenario 2—A mobile app supports and encourages bike usage within a small metropolitan area. I looked at this scenario further by considering a variant: an app that supports and encourages bike usage within the small French city of Montpellier. Read More