From the course: Making User Experience Happen as a Team

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Integrating with teams

Integrating with teams

From the course: Making User Experience Happen as a Team

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Integrating with teams

- Getting to the point where you're involved in defining project strategy will most likely mean as many changes for the user experience team members as it will for everyone else in the process. We're way past the time of designers sitting in their ivory tower remote from the development process handing out decrees on how products should look, and behave. That approach never worked well, and probably never will. Any good development team can easily subvert your organization's design guidelines even if they pay any attention to them at all. Being a governance role where teams have to get the design committee checkbox ticked before they can ship their product is also a bad idea. It turns you into the enemy of the team. They'll do their best to work around any governance, or do the least possible work to ensure they squeeze through the process. Considering the design and user experience process from the product team's perspective it's no wonder they might be reluctant to involve you…

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