Story map templates and examples

Story map templates and examples

Story map templates and examples

Learn new user story mapping techniques by story map templates and examples.

Learn new user story mapping techniques by story map templates and examples.

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Fictional story map examples

Fictional story map examples

These story maps have been made up by our team and represent how a typical user might make use of story mapping. ou might find that these examples may lack detail ... this is deliberate. It’s so we can encapsulate whole user journeys.

These story maps have been made up by our team and represent how a typical user might make use of story mapping. ou might find that these examples may lack detail ... this is deliberate. It’s so we can encapsulate whole user journeys.

Story mapping basics

Webshop Example

Learn to build a standard story map without the extra details.

This story map includes all core elements of product design: main goals (epics), user journey, user personas and the first six releases.

We’ve used MoSCoW prioritization methods and added two user personas.

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Story map templates

Chat Service Example

Use the template cards in the first column as hints during planning to avoid missing information.

This template will help you build more consistent backlogs and promote shared understanding with developers.

This example also shows you how to design both the backend and the frontend of a product at the same time on the same board.

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Adding more info

Farming Game Example

This story map represents several solutions that add visuality to a backlog.

First of all, explore what different colors and tags mean and how to tasks such as bugs, ideas and requests under additional releases.

Releases can not only be used for slicing our releases, but also to separate user stories.

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Story map templates with different mindsets

In this group, we share story maps with different solutions for different needs. The core structure of this is the same, but some parts could be very different from the above-introduced examples.

In this group, we share story maps with different solutions for different needs. The core structure of this is the same, but some parts could be very different from the above-introduced examples.

Journeys

Accommodation website example

This story map was originally designed for introducing the tagging of user stories with emoji icons, and how to filter them with the Search&Filter menu.

The story map demonstrates how a user persona can be identified and assigned to related goals and steps in the user journey.

By adding user journeys to the map you can express a second dimension of user personas, because different personas (with different goals), can have the same journey on the product.

Journeys can be visualized with the search&filter settings.

Open the story map ->

Personas

Accommodation website example

Use our template cards in the first column as hints during planning to avoid missing information.

This template will help you build more consistent backlogs and promote shared understanding with developers.

This example also shows you how to design both the backend and the front end of a product at the same time on the same board.

Open the story map ->

Free story mapping ebook

50 handpicked hints on

  • Discovering project goals

  • Mapping the user journey

  • Prioritizing user stories

Bonus materials included

  • 100 user story map examples

  • Templates for specs

  • Useful articles

Free story mapping ebook

50 handpicked hints on

  • Discovering project goals

  • Mapping the user journey

  • Prioritizing user stories

Bonus materials included

  • 100 user story map examples

  • Templates for specs

  • Useful articles

Free story mapping ebook

50 handpicked hints on

  • Discovering project goals

  • Mapping the user journey

  • Prioritizing user stories

Bonus materials included

  • 100 user story map examples

  • Templates for specs

  • Useful articles

Inspiring public story maps

It's always inspiring and interesting to browse someone else’s board to explore different mindsets. They might not follow the standard user story mapping rules but they could add hints for better usage of the method.

It's always inspiring and interesting to browse someone else’s board to explore different mindsets. They might not follow the standard user story mapping rules but they could add hints for better usage of the method.

Coruja Games

We must survive RPG

This story map contains two interesting techniques.

The first is, how to use the different levels on the story map. Putting goals or main requirements on the top level and putting feature groups on the second level (instead of user steps).

The planning team added features but these were too big, and it’s likely they were broken into smaller parts after sending them into an issue tracker.

This is a typical high-level backlog without specifications, releases and detailed user stories but it's perfect for product discovery.

Open the story map ->

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