Andreas Ringdal — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:58:33 GMT

@Dan Willis
I partially agree with you. If the aim is to maintain status quo, then discard the ones in need of variety. But if you want to take the product further, or expand into new ideas, you have to think differently. Then you will need people that use variety to thrive, you have to make sure that they have somewhere to present and realize their ideas.
Being creative and productive, but with someone further up the hierarchy discarding the suggestions continuously just to play safe with the existing product, is demoralizing.

Andreas

Andreas Ringdal — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:14:24 GMT

@Anthony Colfelt
I am missing one role here, the one man UX team. In smaller companies, the UX is often the responsibility of a single person. This person can’t cover all aspects of UX, but have to assign single tasks to other individuals of the team.
Required skills
– ability to identify the UX related skills of the rest of the development team
– ability to delegate
– social skills are needed both to get other members to accept the tasks you “assign” to them, and convince the project manager that it’s necessary
– knowledge of all skills listed in part 1 and 2 of the article. And preferably experience in several of the required UX skills
– ability to handle external consultants hired to perform some of the required UX tasks

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Andreas Ringdal