Chapter 10. Ecosystem Maps - A Holistic Overview
Ecosystem maps are powerful tools to facilitate communication and help with the decision-making process. Unlike all other maps we have seen in this book, the ecosystem maps will show our solution's relationship with other solutions and entities in the world, instead of exploring the inner workings of our solution; this is why I'm fascinated by ecosystem maps.
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The ecosystem map places our solution in the greater context of the holistic user experience. This map aids the identification and integration of complex, interdisciplinary information of the user experience ecosystem. The primary benefit of the ecosystem map is finding and communicating threats, enablers, synergies, incompatibilities, motivators, and trade-offs between different entities. Those entities are often solutions our users use or consider using.
In this chapter, we will do the following things:
- Introduce our opportunity
- Define the ecosystem
- Explore how we can map an ecosystem...
