{"id":536,"date":"2015-07-25T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2015-07-26T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T02:36:48","slug":"threshold-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/threshold-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Threshold Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word:\u00a0<\/strong>Threshold mapping<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>The mapping of default or normal states of a user to better understand what happens when a person leaves her normal state and crosses the line into an alternative condition. When a person crosses this metaphorical line, or threshold to be exact, she tends to think and act differently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:\u00a0<\/strong>I first learned about the concept of threshold mapping in the book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062125699\/ref%3Das_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0062125699&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gomagoma0a\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden in Plain Sight<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by <a href=\"http:\/\/janchipchase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Chipchase<\/a>. Chipchase is\u00a0the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/d-rad.co\/\">Studio D Radiodurans<\/a>, a research, design and innovation consultancy, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sdrtraveller.com\/\">SDR Traveller<\/a>. In his book, he\u00a0uses taking a shower as an example to illustrate a threshold map. Many\u00a0people feel clean for about a day and therefore do not have the urge\u00a0to shower more than every 24 hours. In this case, a day would be the threshold. If this person, with a threshold of a day, goes three days without showering, she has crossed her cleanliness threshold and will most likely think and act differently until she gets back into her normal state\u00a0by taking a shower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong>\u00a0So what does this have to do with user experience design? Good question! Understanding user thresholds provide a significant window into user decision-making. When a user researcher understands why and how someone performs an action, she can create better experiences based on those decision patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Chipchase explains the effects on design research in<i>\u00a0Hidden in Plain Sight<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"For designers to understand what lies within the boundaries of acceptable use and what lies outside those boundaries, they need to understand the contexts in which things will be used, and the range of likely conditions that will change that context in some way...\u00a0design research helps us understand the boundaries of normal behaviors.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word:\u00a0Threshold mapping Definition:\u00a0The mapping of default or normal states of a user to better understand what happens when a person leaves her normal state and crosses the line into an alternative condition. When a person crosses this metaphorical line, or threshold to be exact, she tends to think and act differently. Reference:\u00a0I first learned about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,26],"tags":[172,171,173,170,8,9],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-termonology","category-research","tag-mapping","tag-threshold","tag-threshold-map","tag-threshold-mapping","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}