UX Roadmaps: Who, When, and How Much Time?

While roadmaps differ in scope, their main benefit is building alignment. We address some of the common questions asked about the topic by practitioners.


This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Sarah Gibbons

Summary: While roadmaps differ in scope, their main benefit is building alignment. We address some of the common questions asked about the topic by practitioners.



A UX roadmap is a strategic, living artifact that aligns, prioritizes, and communicates a UX team’s future work and problems to solve. In this article, we answer the most frequently asked questions we receive about roadmaps in our full-day course, UX Roadmaps .

1. How Do Roadmaps and Project Plans Differ?

Roadmaps should be the bridge between a company’s UX vision and project-tracking artifacts. Thus, roadmaps are strategic, vision-oriented documents, while project-management plans focus on execution and output tracking.

Roadmaps are used to communicate future work at a high level. They lack formal, discrete task definition and capture a range of potential problems to solve, which have yet to be solved. Each of these problems can be broken down into tasks, captured in a project plan or task tracker. In these, items are specific, low-granularity, less likely to change. They often include discrete, measurable tasks that are carried out by individual members of the team.



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This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Sarah Gibbons


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