AI-generated Empathy Maps

Creating Empathy Maps with Product Context Analyzer

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What is an Empathy Map?

An Empathy Map organizes a persona's perspective into what they say, do, think, and feel. By bringing observable behavior together with thoughts and affective states, it helps teams develop empathy, understand the persona's point of view, and anticipate how they might respond to design decisions. The Does section links directly to the underlying tasks in the context-of-use analysis.

Basic steps to create an Empathy Map with Product Context Analyzer

1

Enter a research prompt

Specify the job profile or persona name you are interested in without mentioning any activity

Example: Regional Sales Manager in Pharmaceuticals

Tips

To provide more context, you may add further detail about the type of user or stakeholder you are interested in

You may set 'Persona' as explicit focus for analysis to overwrite automatic classification

2

Click 'Start Analysis'

The analysis of a persona takes several minutes depending on the number of tasks identified

3

Open the Analysis

As soon as the analysis is completed, you can open it and look at all artifacts

Tips

The quick access view provides direct access to all artifacts grouped by UX method

You can also browse all results by stakeholder, task or task object by clicking on the left icons

4

Select Empathy Map Results

The Empathy Map organizes the persona's perspective into Says, Does, Thinks, and Feels

Tips

Use the Empathy Map to understand the persona's perspective and emotional drivers

Follow links from Does to explore the underlying tasks in the context-of-use analysis

What can you do with an Empathy Map?

Bring the user's perspective into a design workshop

Give the team a structured view of what the persona says, does, thinks, and feels before discussing how the product should respond.

Anticipate reactions to design decisions

Use the persona's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to consider how they might perceive or respond to a proposed interaction or change.

Challenge your design from the user's point of view

Walk through a proposed experience from the persona's perspective to identify assumptions, concerns, or emotional responses the design may have overlooked.

Turn it into a visual empathy map

Use the structured content to create a visually engaging empathy map for presentations, workshops, or other research deliverables.

Review it with users

Treat the generated empathy map as a hypothesis and validate whether the described behaviors, thoughts, and feelings reflect their actual perspective.

External Resources

Established Practice

Interaction Design Foundation

Contemporary Thinking

Interaction Design Foundation

PCA Perspectives

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