UX Short: UX is broken
This UX designer hopes that the job title disappears — but for good reason
Alright, slight exaggeration. I hope that I still have a job creating products and experiences for people — and I certainly hope that my boss doesn’t see this and takes it as an invitation to sack me. The meaning behind my words can be summed up thusly:
It may be an unpopular opinion, but…
As long as research is seen as a process, and not a part of the culture, it will always be a second-hand citizen.
- Dr. Ari Zelmanow on LinkedIn
Long story short: The field needs to become standard and assumed. We need to assume user experience practices in all fields in order to improve the product, medical, and aerospace spaces in terms of human experiences.
The field of user experience has larger-reaching implications than just those fields. Changing the assumption of fields to do research for representative populations, expert users, and lived experiences are all important. Not only that but applying that information informatively with design thinking and benefitting the user are things that need to become prevalent from a moral standpoint.
