[Sigia-l] Where is usability in the org chart?

[Richard I. Anderson]

For some remarks on the organizational positioning of "user 
experience," see 
http://riander.blogspot.com/2006/05/where-should-user-experience-be.html.

Richard Anderson

At 5:37 PM +0000 5/23/06, Stewart Dean wrote:
>... I personaly see the title 'usability professional' as a title 
>that won't ring true with many these days - the term 'user 
>expereince' is far more prevelent ...
>
>Stewart Dean
>empathy digital
>
>
>>From: <taltom at iei.net>
>>To: sigia-l at asis.org
>>Subject: [Sigia-l] Where is usability in the org chart?
>>Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:59:16 -0400
>>
>>I'm sure this must have come up in discussion before, but a search of the
>>archives turned up nothing of consequence, perhaps because the 
>>number of possible
>>keywords is rather large.
>>
>>The question is twofold: First, where is usability located on your 
>>org chart? And
>>second, what are the pros and cons of being there?
>>
>>There are multiple reasons for asking this. The trigger was a 
>>request by a client
>>to compile a table of representative organizations and where 
>>usability fit there.
>>But there turned out to be darned little compiled anywhere. And with World
>>Usability Day coming up, our chapter of UPA is trying to make 
>>contact with the
>>hidden usability population in our area.
>>
>>Tim Altom

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