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title: "Customer journey map – what it shows | Sweet Lava"
description: "A journey map visualises a customer's whole path with a brand: touchpoints, emotions and friction at each stage. See what it reveals and when to make one."
url: https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/customer-journey-map/
lang: en
alternate_pl: https://sweetlava.eu/pl/slownik/mapa-podrozy-klienta/
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UX & product design 

# What is Customer journey map?

A customer journey map is a visualisation of a customer's entire path with a brand – from first contact through purchase to support – with emotions, touchpoints and friction at every stage.

A journey map reveals what no single department can see: the customer doesn't distinguish "marketing", "sales" and "support" – they live one continuous story. The map glues that story together and exposes where it breaks.

A typical map includes: journey stages (awareness → consideration → purchase → use → loyalty), the customer's actions and questions, touchpoints (website, email, phone, parcel), emotions, and identified problems and opportunities.

**Practical effect:** maps often reveal that the biggest losses are not where the company looks (advertising) but in "boring" places – the order confirmation, the first-use instructions, the post-purchase email.

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## Related terms

- [Conversion & conversion rate](https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/conversion-rate/)
- [Persona](https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/persona/)
- [UX research](https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/ux-research/)

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