The ecosystem map places our solution in the greater context of the holistic user experience. Our solution will be the centerpiece of the map. To map the rest of the ecosystem, we will start with six questions related to our solution to find the entities. The distance from the centerpiece will indicate the scale of those entities. We will use the ecosystem map to understand and communicate a holistic overview of the user experience. A stakeholder map is a special ecosystem map, lacking the six directions, containing only the stakeholders for our solution.
I hope that you have enjoyed creating the user experience maps of this book. For me, writing the first 10 chapters was an amazing journey. In those 10 chapters, I have covered all map types I use through my day-to-day work as a user experience consultant. In fact, this chapter could have been the last. There are no more maps that...