Living Guide to Social Innovation Labs
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  • Introduction
  • Seeing
    • Understanding Complex Problems
      • Challenge Statements
      • Systems Thinking
      • Systems Mapping
      • Leverage Points
      • Wicked Questions
    • Design Research
      • Design Thinking
      • Ethnography
      • Interviews
      • Journey Mapping
      • Service Blueprint
      • Sensemaking
      • Dashboards
    • Systemic Design
    • Identifying and Engaging Key People
      • Stakeholders
      • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Doing
    • Co-Creation
      • Convening
        • Is Convening the Right Tool?
        • Types of Convening
      • Facilitation
      • Collective Impact
      • Ideation
    • Prototyping
      • Prototyping in a Lab Context
      • Testing
      • Types and Modalities
      • Prototyping Approaches
    • Scaling
      • Growth Thresholds
      • Scaling Up, Out, Deep
      • Tactics for Scaling
      • Scaling Strategy
    • Monitoring, Measuring and Communicating Impact
      • Types of Evaluation
      • Logic Models
      • Measures and Metrics
      • Standards of Evidence
      • Evaluating Complexity
      • Communicating Impact
  • Being
    • Innovation Labs and Process
      • Agile Project Management
      • Value Proposition
      • Theory for Change
      • Business Models
    • Resourcing and Team
      • Lab Partners
      • Team Expertise and Skills
      • Wellbeing of Remote Teams
      • Funding
    • Inclusion and Equity Practice
      • Power Structures
      • Innovation for Real Transformation
      • Truth and Reconciliation
      • Recommendations for Inclusive Practice
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Journey Mapping

Generative research and analysis method that helps us understand the interactions that an individual has with a process, service or organization from the perspective of that individual.

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Defining Journey Mapping

Journey maps help to clarify the holistic experience of an individual, enabling the team to identify areas requiring deeper exploration, patterns and pain points.

Having detailed documentation of someone’s experience of a process or service over time, including diverse interactions, helps teams to identify gaps and potential opportunities to improve the experience, such as travelling to the airport to catch a plane, or the path of a client accessing social services. It is also useful to compare processes, outcomes, and overlaps of different user groups within the same system such as the front desk agent at the airport, or the social worker delivering the social services.

The information collected from the person whose experience is being mapped should be thorough – what may seem arbitrary or mundane at the time can reveal patterns of behaviour that may lead to important insights which can improve the experience. These can include elements like:

  • Actions taken, behaviours

  • Emotions, states of mind

  • Goals or needs

  • Pain points

  • Opportunities and barriers

  • Physical artefacts/ things

By being aware of the various elements that comprise a point in the experience, it can become clearer when, where, and how to intervene with what in the system.

Examples and Resources

Instructions: How to use journey mapping

1) Setup Use the template below or a piece of flipchart paper and designate a different colour of marker or post-it for each type of data you are collecting (e.g. Actions, Thinking, Feeling, etc.)

2) Identify an interviewer(s) and user One person will be conducting the interview with the user (ie. the person whose journey you want to map)

3) Conduct your interview Apply your research to the journey Mapping framework in a linear timeline of the experience. For each Action of your user, indicate what they were Thinking, Feeling, their overall Experience, and Touchpoints they interacted with.

Key Tools/Resources

CJM Online Tool is a customer journey map tool by UXPRESSIA that helps you to create journey maps. It allows you to identify pain points and barriers, analyze journeys, and share your maps:

Canvanizer is a simple mapping tool that doesn’t integrate data, but allows you to visualize journey maps and share with others:

Smaply is a tool that allows for the development of personas. Once these are created, they map onto an ecosystem with different stakeholders and show the relationships between them:

https://uxpressia.com/customer-journey-map-online-tool
https://canvanizer.com/new/customer-journey-canvas
https://www.smaply.com/
Example of a (simplified) journey mapping exercise
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Template - Journey Mapping
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Journey Mapping Example.pdf
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Example Pg. 1 - Journey Mapping
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Example Pg. 2 - Journey Mapping