A new field ?
- Human factors and ergonomics → late 40's
- Human-computer interaction → early 80's.
- Bill Moggridge & interaction design → mid 80's.
- Jakob Nielsen wrote a his first usability book → 1993
While the term UX design only started to pop up somewhere around 2006, some elements of UX go way back in time, as well as the techniques and deliverables.
You’ve written a very basic version of UX. But each of these steps have an enormous depth and contain specializations that take years to master. I don’t see any mention of that in this article. It’s IMO even impossible to master them all as a real expert, and it’s not an easy path.
I do agree that there isn’t really a right or wrong way of doing UX. However, especially the last few years I see a lot of “UX designers” doing it really wrong. After teaching them to do it right, it was clear it was mostly because they didn’t know know basic UX principles & fields. Just not basic enough to learn by reading a few articles (instead of books).
So no, I don’t agree.
UX is not so easy as you make it look.
