Don't Sell User Experience. Really. Don't.

User experience, for all its trendy power, is still a mystery for most development-centered organizations. When teammates are ready to invest in UX, they have a difficult time selling it to decision-makers and stakeholders. How do you convince them that UX is needed? The simple answer is that you don’t. Don’t sell it at all.

The Best UX Stance

There’s little you can do to convince a group that UX is valuable. What you can do is embed UX into every thought and process.?

• Don’t Treat UX as Something Extra: User experience is not an additive. If you treat it as such, it will be seen as optional and something that can be easily ignored.
• Bake In User Experience: Make UX so fundamental to your processes that it becomes completely ordinary. It should feel like a natural part of what you do.
• Focus on Quality: When you focus on quality, then you’ll become the company that delivers amazing digital products everyone loves to use. That gets people’s attention.

Fusing Development and UX

Your goal is to make the highest-quality digital products you can. When you deeply integrate UX into your processes, it becomes inseparable from development. And with that comes quality digital products decision-makers can’t argue against.

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