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Westley KnightUX for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4227-8_4

4. Adjusting the Developer Perspective

Westley Knight1 
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Northampton, UK
 

As a developer, your day-to-day work will be heavily influenced by the business and is – more often than not, in my experience, working as a developer both in-house and in external agencies – viewed as a production line that churns out the code. The goal of that production line is to deliver against the business goals, with a concentration on efficiency, delivering to release windows, and can, in some cases, be treated as a commodity by product owners or the organization at large.

This is a symptom of the lower levels of UX maturity we discussed in Chapter 2. There can be hostility ...

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