UX Roadmap
A UX roadmap is a conceptual, living artefact that aligns, prioritizes and discusses the potential work and challenges a UX team will have to solve. A UX roadmap is a live, high-level artefact that prioritizes and communicates the potential work and challenges to be solved by a UX team.
The aspirations of the customers are constantly growing. Product teams need to take into account the user experience in all their product decisions. It can create user loyalty and catch new customers by introducing a fantastic new feature. But if users find the feature frustrating, or difficult to navigate in your app, it may weaken the feature with bad experience. Worse still, a bad UX can also weaken the opinion of users about the rest of your product. A bad experience with the product can damage your business in several ways. Therefore it is a wise strategic move to build and maintain a dedicated UX roadmap.
- It lets you make user experience a priority at any level of growth.
- It allows you to discover tasks of design which you would otherwise neglect.
- It helps to emphasize the value of usability and design.
- Set your UX Roadmap plan and priorities.
- Use the right tool.
- Setting strategic themes.
- Set daily check-in points for analysis of progress on the roadmap.
- UX Vision: A declaration of ambition that explains the effect your solution would have on the lives of those you created it for.
- Business goals which align with your vision and help your team stay on track while focusing on strategic priorities.
- Timeframes for projects which provide a clear path forward whilst also enabling flexibility.
- Themes that explain what needs to happen to represent the vision of our product and achieve its objectives (these should be included in every potential project decision).
- Themes can clarify what needs to happen to reflect our product ‘s vision and achieve its goals (these should be included in any potential project decision).
Originally published at https://medium.com on September 1, 2020.
