UX Roadmaps
Plan what your team will work on when, from next quarter to multi-year UX strategy. Align, prioritize, & communicate future work.
A roadmap is a high-level strategy outlining when and what a product team is going to work on. This living, collaborative document communicates your UX strategy to your immediate team, engineers, and stakeholders.
UX roadmaps are malleable: they can work on a granular-level to align specific UX tasks to short-horizon goals or they can work on a high-level to inform strategy, aligning discovery and exploratory initiatives to long-horizon business objectives.
Learning Objectives
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
- Create both short and long-horizon UX roadmaps
- Visualize and communicate roadmaps to others
- Adapt the roadmap structure to varying needs:
- Time: one-month to five-years
- Scope: feature to product to portfolio
- People: design team to engineers to stakeholders
Topics Covered
- Roadmapping 101
- Definition
- History and theory
- Principles
- Roadmap Purpose
- Benefits and goals
- Capture and identify
- Prioritize
- Share and communicate
- When to roadmap
- Who should own roadmapping
- Baseline Roadmap Structure
- Template
- Key elements
- Variations and Adaptations
- Real-life examples
- Scoping scenarios
- Tactical vs. strategic
- Short-horizon vs. long-horizon
- Product-orientated vs. people-orientated
- Building Roadmaps
- Roadmapping workshops
- Tools to build and visualize
- Establishing Buy-in and Measuring
- Milestones and updates
- Methods for assessing your roadmaps
- Adapting your roadmaps for the future
Format
This course is a combination of lecture format and participatory workshop. You will participate in group exercises to reinforce the learned principles and techniques.
The course also includes:
- A digital roadmap template to adapt to your own use
- A detailed workshop-agenda for a roadmapping workshop
- Hands-on exercises with feedback from the instructor
- Opportunities to ask questions and get answers
