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Adopted from Jeremy Johnson & Chuck Mallott visualization<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE PROBLEM<\/strong>
Today every company understands the importance of providing seamless user experience for their users to achieve their tasks. Now who owns most important part of the product? How do we craft great experience? Why do most of them fail to achieve what they want? Most of the companies have a UX team or a UX person who handles respective product experience. But is this team or the person responsible for the success or failure of product experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it really take to create a world class user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE MYTH AROUND US
<\/strong>These are some of the typical myths around how user experience should be handled.
\u2022 Product is not doing well, let\u2019s get our UX team to revamp the entire product.
\u2022 Define the product strategy and then bring in the UX team to create a wow.
\u2022 C-Level folks think it\u2019s the product head\u2019s job, Product & Development heads think its UX team\u2019s job to achieve
great UX.
\u2022 UX can be done in isolation, having a strong team with proven track record should solve the problem.
\u2022 Why do we need to give so much attention to detail and spend so many sprints only for UX? Can\u2019t we achieve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Are there any short cuts to get this revamp done in couple of sprints, as we have a hard stop?
\u2022 We don\u2019t have an appropriate budget or resource, let\u2019s get this done with what ever we have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEMYSTIFYING THE MYTH<\/strong>
As there are no shortcuts in life to success, similarly there are no shortcuts to achieve great UX. So how do we do it? Following are some of the obvious key factors that helps to craft a better UX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESIGN CULTURE<\/strong>
Design as a philosophy should be part of the DNA of any product company. This becomes a de-facto mantra for each and every individual who is involved in crafting their product UX. This makes life very comfortable for design
team to collaborate as the tone is already set. Designers need not spend time on educating and evangelising designs anymore, it should be an integral part of the company. This has to come from top down so that it becomes seamless.
This helps the decision making team to actually deep dive into the actual problem instead solving it on a very superficial level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESIGN DECISIONS<\/strong>
It\u2019s all about involving the right people, at the right time, to make the right decision. All the product stakeholders need to be present during the entire UX journey to make sure the entire process is object oriented vs subjective. Similarly designers should be part of the product strategy decision from the beginning to avoid working on wrong problems. So if the decision makers are C-level people, then they have to be ready to get their hands dirty. Coming in later in the process would only surprise them and invite more discussions.
It\u2019s not about the right solution, it\u2019s all about solving the right problem. Hence the entire decision makers (C-Level, Product, Design, Development) should be on the same page on the problem statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE DESIGN IS IN THE DETAILS<\/strong>
We need to have insane attention to details to achieve a world class experience. This is all about crafting, precision and play the devils advocate role for your own designs. There are no rooms for compromise at this stage. It\u2019s all about execution and executing the right way. All the delight factors are hidden in details, hence it can\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ON A CLOSING, NOTE<\/strong>
At the end of the day it\u2019s your baby. You need to nurture it with at-most care. Decision makers have to spend quality time to groom their product at the early stage, like a parent. Design teams are more like teachers who can guide this journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UX is everyone\u2019s job.<\/strong><\/h2>\n