{"id":273,"date":"2009-09-09T23:34:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T04:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-09-09T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T04:36:14","slug":"fire-the-user-experience-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/fire-the-user-experience-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire the user experience designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/briancray.com\/2009\/09\/09\/fire-the-web-designer\/\">This post<\/a> makes a case for having a specialized &#8220;user experience designer&#8221;.  The author makes the case that usability and interaction design is too complicated to be handled by someone responsible for other tasks.  This is false.<\/p>\n<p>If you are on a team responsible for a website or something similar, EVERYONE on your team should understand usability and interaction design.  It&#8217;s not a special skill, it&#8217;s core competency, like communication skills and ethics.  The real experts out are rare, and I mean &#8220;you&#8217;ll probably never even meet one&#8221; rare.  Most people who specialize in it are just washed-up designers or coders.<\/p>\n<p>You need your designers thinking about how people will interact with your program, or you&#8217;re going to end up with brochureware.  You need you programmers thinking about it or you&#8217;re going to end up with a clumsy UI.  You need your QA people to think about it or you&#8217;re going to end up with spotty test plans.  You need your managers thinking about it to understand what&#8217;s important.  You need your salespeople thinking about it to compare against your hapless competition.  <\/p>\n<p>Having someone responsible for it is a bad idea because not only are they probably going to suck at it, it&#8217;s just going to make everyone else lazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post makes a case for having a specialized &#8220;user experience designer&#8221;. The author makes the case that usability and interaction design is too complicated to be handled by someone responsible for other tasks. This is false. If you are on a team responsible for a website or something similar, EVERYONE on your team should&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/fire-the-user-experience-designer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire the user experience designer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,3,11],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-software","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-4p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}