the endless semantic arguments is why I’ve stopped associating myself with the “UX people” unless I have to. Let’s just do some work, y'all
@tsmuse I've certainly participated in my share of those conversations, and as a teacher and manager, it can be hard to avoid them.
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@DaveHogue I’m sure it comes from a good place, and I’m guilty as anyone of stoking those flames. To me now it feels more like protectionism -
@tsmuse Interesting that you see "protectionism." What is the threat? What perceived loss is trying to be averted? -
@DaveHogue I think it’s the fear of only being left with “make it pretty”, which I’ve seen happen in multiple companies, but fighting -
@DaveHogue about the semantics of what our jobs are isn’t a path to keep companies from putting designers in that box -
@tsmuse And we're back to the practice of UX: what we do influences the perception of the field more than what we say. UX is an orientation. -
@DaveHogue amen :D
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@DaveHogue like other people outside the UX team are learning these lessons & now UX ppl with narrow skill sets are afraid of being obsolete -
@tsmuse I don't see UX as being a narrow field at all, but people who define it narrowly may be feeling the most threatened? -
@DaveHogue I agree it’s super broad. I think it’s a combo of co’s trying to narrow it to make roles cleaner + fear that design will -
@DaveHogue be stripped down to nothing but decoration, so there is this pushback of “No, it’s so much more complicated than you understand!"
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