Business: Role of UX

This month, the Ask UXmatters expert panel discusses how UX professionals can best collaborate with automated UX tools, considering the different, but complementary strengths of AI systems and human beings. Our experts also consider the deeper question of whether artificial-intelligence (AI) tools will replace UX researchers and designers and what the future holds for UX professionals working in an artificially intelligent environment.

Our experts also describe the respective roles of automated UX tools and UX researchers. Plus, they discuss the merits of automated versus moderated usability testing. Read More

We discuss two topics in this column:

• using verbs as nouns in user interfaces
• UX roles in organizations

Ask UXmatters is here to answer your questions about user experience matters. If you want to read our experts’ responses to your questions in an upcoming edition of Ask UXmatters, please send your questions to: [email protected]. Read More

In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our expert panel considers the contributions of UX designers that are most and least important to the product-development process. Can we generalize about the value of UX designers’ contributions to product teams? Or is the value a UX designer provides unique to that designer? How can UX designers exponentially increase the value of their skills and contributions by inculcating an experience-first culture into a multidisciplinary product team? How can product teams make meaningful work?

The panel discusses the importance of UX designers’ being involved in the product-development lifecycle from the very beginning of a project, engaging entire product teams in the UX research and design process, and applying discoveries from research throughout the design process. Our expert panel also contemplates how UX designers can take a more active role in the development process, as opposed to simply executing requirements from product management. Read More