I agree with almost all of this, and I think if enough people keep saying it, companies will start doing it.
Many think that user experience design is confined to sketching the interfaces. However, UX design is a much broader process that - ideally - starts at the strategy level and affects the whole lifecycle of a project or a business.
UX design begins by learning about the business model, doing user research and understanding how a service can fit into the users’ lives in a meaningful way. Thus UX design has a crucial part in defining the business strategy, providing baselines for business decisions with such design deliverables as personas or user stories. A UX-driven process doesn’t end with the UIs either, it’s also about testing with people, supporting development, making ongoing adjustments even after the launch.
This message alone is making interested in #LeanUX.
I hate wasting the company and my time.
One thing i don’t like about gmail’s new UI. Â Is that I occasionally click the ads now that it’s gray. I think i expect the back button to be there.
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I wonder how well this works.