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How to use this UX path

UX is evidence over taste. This path: JTBD → flows → heuristics → tests → IA → states → a11y. Pick one app to analyze all 6 weeks — consistency beats novelty.

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Choose subject app

Real app you use weekly: banking, food delivery, learning platform. You will map, test, and redesign parts of it.

Choose subject appDrag stickies · tap for tips
Study mapDrag stickies · tap for tipsKeep it shortdrag · tap →Name the waitdrag · tap →Scope locatorsdrag · tap →Trace when stuckdrag · tap →One browser firstdrag · tap →Isolate statedrag · tap →Assert the UIdrag · tap →Retry wiselydrag · tap →Seed datadrag · tap →Close the loopdrag · tap →Keep it shortdrag · tap →Name the waitdrag · tap →Scope locatorsdrag · tap →Trace when stuckdrag · tap →One browser firstdrag · tap →Isolate statedrag · tap →Pathwise hackdrag · tap →Choose subject appdrag · tap →Try thisdrag · tap →Follow the dashed drag · tap →

Do this now

Create FigJam or Notion “UX Evidence Notebook”. Paste app name and primary job users hire it for.

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • Pick a subject app
  • Evidence notebook habit
  • 4–6 week map

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Side quest

First observation

Use app for 10 min. Log 5 observations — no solutions yet.