{"id":1121,"date":"2013-02-28T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2013-02-22T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:00:08","slug":"austin-govellas-manifesto-for-user-experience-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/austin-govellas-manifesto-for-user-experience-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Govella&#8217;s manifesto for user experience design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Govella has just updated his <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkingandmaking.com\/manifesto\">manifesto for user experience design<\/a>. \u00a0There&#8217;s a lot in it to like, but the last point really resonates with me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Create better organizations to enable better design.<\/h2>\n<p>Your design activities don\u2019t change. Change how you work with your team. Change how you work, so your goal is always a better organization instead of a better product. Change how you accomplish the design, so that you are always improving your team\u2019s design literacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that everyone in user experience at least occasionally struggles with working with people who don&#8217;t understand design and how design makes better products. \u00a0I think that Austin is right that it&#8217;s our job to help make our organization better. \u00a0Just as we in user experience need to understand our technology and our users so that we can make a better design, we also have to share our knowledge about user experience and design and our users and how our technology fits into our users&#8217; lives to help everyone in the organization do a better job of making products to meet people&#8217;s needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Govella has just updated his manifesto for user experience design. \u00a0There&#8217;s a lot in it to like, but the last point really resonates with me: Create better organizations to enable better design. Your design activities don\u2019t change. Change how you work with your team. Change how you work, so your goal is always a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/austin-govellas-manifesto-for-user-experience-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Austin Govella&#8217;s manifesto for user experience design<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}