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Profiling business UX leaders: A new series on UX Magazine

by Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine
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For companies to succeed at creating great user experiences in their products, the entire company must be focused on UX to some degree. It’s not sufficient to just hire a CXO or create an isolated UX team, nor can marketing or IT departments take up the UX mantle on their own. UX must be a company-wide competency, and decision-making must be suffused with attention to user or customer needs.

Building a UX orientation and competency can be very difficult for large companies. Complicated politics, segregated departments, entrenched industry practices, fragile legacy products, poor agency partners, and basic lack of information can make it quite challenging to steer the enormous ship toward better UX.

Because of this, UX Magazine has undertaken a large project to profile companies across a diverse range of verticals that have taken bold steps toward better UX. We’re creating a special series called Business UX Leaders to spotlight their achievements with the aim of giving other businesses positive examples of how UX practices can be built and cost-justified, what opportunities to pursue and what pitfalls to avoid, and what payoffs to expect. We hope that this information and the leading examples of their peers will help business leaders take their companies down the path to better UX. Helping business leaders and bringing them into the UX professional community is critical to the success of the cause of better UX.

Click here for a list of the articles that have been published in this series.

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Suggest a Business UX Leader

If you know of any companies that are making great strides in building UX into their cultures and products, please let us know! We prefer to cover recognizable brands since they have greater credibility with the business audience, but all suggestions are welcome as long as their example is strong enough. PR and marketing people, please don’t take this as an opportunity to try to get publicity for your company unless it is a recognizable brand showing true, strong leadership and success in building UX competency.

Send suggestions to: [email protected]

Please include an explanation of why you’re making the suggestion, and provide contact info to people in the company involved in its UX work.

post authorJonathan Anderson  |  UX Magazine

Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine,

I am a tech-focused jack of all trades and the editor-in-chief of UX Magazine. I'm also the author of Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software, published by O'Reilly Media. Through its partnership with UX Magazine, I am also a senior advisor to Didus, a recruiting and career development company focused on user-centered professionals. As well, I'm engaged as the Managing Director, Product Strategy & Design for Dapperly, a fashion-oriented software product startup, and am the Principal of First Day, a small private equity and consulting company. From 2005 to 2009, I helped found EffectiveUI, a leading UX strategy, design, and development agency focused on web, desktop, and mobile systems.

I’ve been fortunate to participate in work that’s on the leading edge of user-centered strategy and design, customer experience, and software development. Everything is converging around an increased attention to the quality of user experiences, around web-enabled or web-like software, and around technologies that can create unified experiences across multiple platforms, devices, and applications. I’ve built on my experience at UX Magazine, EffectiveUI, and in writing my book to undertake a major project to find ways to make dramatic improvements to the user-centered field and to increase the perception of user-centered design, research, and technology as being core strategic values.

My work can be very hard to explain because what I do day-to-day is extremely varied since my role is usually to be a jack-of-all-trades. If I’m performing any one job function this week or month, it’s always in the broader context of fulfilling the needs of that business (whatever they might be) and in the even broader context of the private equity holding and management activities of First Day. 

My primary value has been to be an adaptable, fearless, fast-learning manager of and versatile resource to a large number of small businesses, where I hold the line in diverse functions while the companies are too small to hire specialized professionals for any given part of their business. This means I’ve had my hands in almost every aspect of starting, growing, and managing a small business, including finance, accounting, legal, management, HR, marketing/brand, PR, IT, resource management, facilities, general operations, corporate governance, project management, product development, change management, and many others.

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