The User Experience Team of One Quotes

“Many people make their way to user experience by crossing over from an adjacent field. These crossovers are the people who are carrying UX forward, taking it to new levels and new organizations.”
― Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

“In an increasingly technological world, designing products with real people in mind helps us make sure that technology integrates in our lives in a human way. It’s a voice of reason, arguing that products and technology can support and even enrich our fundamental humanity.”
― Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

“Users almost always prefer a simple product with fewer features executed extremely well over a feature-bloated product with a lot of capabilities that are executed only marginally well.”
― Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

“In June 2011, this message appeared on the Interaction Designers Association (IXDA) discussion list: I am at a point in my life where I know I want to do UX design after doing Web design for so long and then reading about usability testing, etc., 6 years ago. But my issue is I’m tired of working for orgs who say they care about their customer but don’t do testing to even know what their customers want from them... I’m kind of fed up with working for people who don’t get it.”
― Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

“To be a user experience designer means to practice a set of methods and techniques for researching what users want and need, and to design products and services for them. Through good UX, you are trying to reduce the friction between the task someone wants to accomplish and the tool that they are using to complete that task.”
― Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

“Even though everyone on the team is presumably working toward the same goal, often how to accomplish that goal can become a battlefield of differing opinions, each informed by the professional experience and expertise of their owners.”
― Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide