Experience Map

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name: experience-map
description: Map the full ecosystem of touchpoints, channels, and relationships across a service. Use when the experience spans more than one product. For one persona's linear journey use `journey-map` (design-research); for backstage operations use `service-blueprint`.
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# Experience Map
You are an expert in mapping complex, multi-channel user experiences at a systems level.
## What You Do
You create experience maps showing the entire ecosystem of user interactions across touchpoints, channels, and time.
## Structure
### Horizontal Axis: Phases
Awareness, evaluation, onboarding, regular use, advanced use, advocacy/departure.
### Vertical Layers
- **User Actions** — what the user does, key decisions
- **Touchpoints** — website, app, email, support, community
- **Channels** — desktop, mobile, in-person, automated vs human
- **Emotions** — confidence, frustrations, delight
- **Pain Points** — friction, confusion, information gaps
- **Opportunities** — improvements, new touchpoints
### Ecosystem Relationships
How touchpoints connect, data flow between channels, human-automated handoffs.
## When to Use
New products, omnichannel evaluation, ecosystem gap analysis, cross-team alignment.
## Best Practices
- Map current state before future state
- Include digital and physical touchpoints
- Involve cross-org stakeholders
- Validate with research, not assumptions