UX great resignation or re-distribution?
“Sometimes Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That’s life! Life moves on. And so should we.” ― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
This post is a critical reflection on some of the heavily discussed issues I am currently having with my UX peers. Though based on our Canadian experience, it is not isolated and may not be quite as unique from other geographies.
User Experience (UX), as a field of research, has taken a long-trodden road to become fully accepted and instituted in many companies today. In fact, it is only in recent years that companies have come to appreciate Design and appointed more C-level management to oversee this nebulous function and understand the value it brings outside of what one sees on a user interface. However, many of my peers will tell you that just as we had arrived, the party was over. And here is why:
The problem is that many of the tasks once fulfilled by our “function” are no longer viable and this comes at a time when many of my peers are leaving the field at very fast rates — a phenomenon that Anthony Klotz, a professor at Business School of Texas A&M University, termed The Great…
