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Communicating the UX Vision
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Communicating the UX Vision

by Martina Schell, James O'Brien
February 2015
Beginner
374 pages
8h 3m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 9

Assuming others don’t get design

Abstract

We sometimes tell ourselves a story where we are the lone design hero standing between the user and the stakeholders. In today’s collaborative and cross-functional teams, it’s important to realize the potential of working with nondesigners to strengthen our ideas and output with their perspectives, and also harness the “not invented here” bias to sell our ideas. We need to develop empathy for colleagues and stakeholders who are not accustomed to working with high levels of uncertainty.

Keywords

biases
working with nondesigners
collaboration
design by committee
elitism in design
hero designer
pair design

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780124201972