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On
the Role "User Experience" Plays in Your Business

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Papers/Articles

Here are some of Richard's views, insights, stories, tips, etc. on a variety of topics specific to the role "user experience" plays in your business. Enjoy!

Sample Blog Articles

On moving user experience "upstream":

• 18 August 2007 On the advisability of estimating ROI
  
• 23 April 2007 Moving UX into a position of corporate influence: Whose advice really works?
  
• 5 April 2007 Conducting "ethnographic" research
  
• 13 March 2007 Calculating return on investment
  
• 10 January 2007 Developing user-centered tools for strategic business planning
  
• 9 March 2006 Working "middle out"
  
• 4 February 2006 Making changes to a company's culture
  
• 11 August 2005 On concept design, ethnography, MRDs, and product vision
  
• 10 May 2005 Partnering with power

On organizational positioning:

• 30 June 2007 Hail to the chief!
  
• 23 March 2007 The internal consultancy model for strategic UXD relevance
  
• 1 February 2007 Does it matter where User Experience is positioned in your organizational structure?
  
• 24 January 2007 Ownership of the user-customer experience
  
• 22 May 2006 Where should "User Experience" be positioned in your company?
  
• 3 October 2005 Walls
  
• 13 May 2005 The Chief Experience Officer
  
• 22 February 2005 Getting the organizational relationships right
  
• 17 October 2004 In a business, which organization should own the user experience?

On multidisciplinary collaboration:

• 15 June 2007 Breaking silos
  
• 7 March 2007 "Check your disciplines at the door" when beneficial
  
• 22 December 2006 "The three-legged stool of collaboration"
  
• 15 May 2006 What to do about those organizational obstacles
  
• 3 October 2005 Walls
  
• 18 August 2005 Effective collaboration and fun
  
• 13 July 2005 Collaboration sessions
  
• 12 May 2005 "The magical interdisciplinary view"
  
• 27 December 2004 The need for good facilitation
  
• 15 December 2004 A different take on ROI

On international issues:

• 21 February 2007 Lifetime Award
  
• 8 December 2006 Easy7
  
• 22 March 2006 User experience work offshore/offshoring
  
• 3 January 2006 Designing for emerging, non-Western markets
  
• 17 January 2005 Easy5: India's fifth usability conference

On achieving change:

• 31 July 2007 On "green design"
  
• 23 July 2007 Secret agent (wo)man?
  
• 15 February 2007 Documenting and evangelizing user experience work
  
• 18 December 2006 Borrowing from the field of child development...
  
• 30 November 2006 What is holding User Experience back or propelling User Experience forward where you work?
  
• 21 September 2006 Changing the course or pace of a large ship
  
• 21 April 2006 Organizational obstacles
  
• 2 August 2005 Start anywhere
  
• 26 July 2005 Patterns for achieving change
  
• 22 July 2005 Framing change / Changing frames
  
• 20 March 2005 Perturbing the ecosystem via intensive, rapid, cross-disciplinary collaboration
  

On user experience terminology and scope:

• 17 May 2007 Metaphors for understanding organizational and process issues
  
• 14 April 2007 Ramblings on the experience of food -- its preparation, eating, & judging -- and technology
  
• 26 October 2006 Words (and definitions) matter; however...
  
• 25 September 2006 Attending to the entire experience
  
• 5 July 2006 "What do they think 'design' is anyway?"
  
• 22 May 2006 Where should "User Experience" be positioned in your company?
  
• 13 September 2005 Is "user" the best word?
  

On innovation:

• 14 September 2006 "The way we work has enormous power"
  
• 6 July 2005 Design humans in or design humans out?
  
• 13 November 2004 Done any good improv lately?
  
• 29 October 2004 Is it true that "good management kills innovation"?
  

Sample Papers/Articles

Anderson, R. Moving user experience into a position of corporate influence: Whose advice really works? uiGarden, October 2007.

Anderson, R. Check your disciplines at the door. UX Magazine, May 2007.

Anderson, R. What is holding user experience back where you work? UX Magazine, May 2007.

Anderson, R. [featuring Ashley, J., Miller, J., Nieters, J., Sampson Eves, S., Tscheligi, M. (for Herrmann, T.), & Watson, S. T.] Moving UX into a position of corporate influence: Whose advice really works? CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts.

Anderson, R., Instone, K., Knemeyer, D., Mazur, B., & Quesenbery, W. User Experience network: A passion for collaboration. interactions, May+June 2005, pp. 40-41.

Quesenbery, W., Anderson, R., & Mazur, B. UXnet: Making connections. CHI 2005 Extended Abstracts, pp. 1098-1099.

Anderson, R., Crakow, J., & Joichi, J. Improving the design of business and interactive system concepts... Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems 2002, pp. 213-223.

Anderson, R. & Braiterman, J. Strategies for making e-business more customer-centred. Chapter 13 in J. Bawa, P. Dorazio, & L. Trenner (Editors), The Usability Business: Making the Web Work. Springer-Verlag London Ltd, November 2001.

A look at these and other papers.

Topics

• scope
• labels
• roles
• management
• innovation
• work process
• design
• user research
• extending reach
• moving upstream
• strategy
• workplace culture
• case studies
• multidisciplinary collaboration
• facilitation
• agility
• patterns
• organizational positioning
• organizational relationships
• achieving change
• obstacles
• international issues
• professional communities
• conferences
• ...