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User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams [Paperback]

Arnie Lund

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9 May 2011 0123854962 978-0123854964

The role of UX manager is of vital importance -- it means leading a productive team, influencing businesses to adopt user-centered design, and delivering valuable products customers. Few UX professionals who find themselves in management positions have formal training in management. More often than not they are promoted to a management position after having proven themselves as an effective and successful practitioner.Yet as important as the position of manager is to the advancement of the field there are no books that specifically address the needs of user experience managers. Though information is available on the Web, nothing ties that advice together in the way a manager would need to integrate it in their work.

User Experience Management speaks directly to the UX manager and to the unique challenges one may face. It outlines the robust framework for how to be an effective UX manager, from creating a team, to orchestrating product development, to ensuring UX is not compromised, to achieving company buy-in on results. This acts as a checklist readers can use to make sure they have covered the bases as they think about how to build their own user experience programs. Written by an experienced UX manager, and containing testamonials from many leading managers in the field, managers both current and aspiring will find this an invaluable reference loaded with ideas and techniques for managing user experience.



*Gives a UX leadership boot-camp from putting together a winning team, to giving them a driving focus, to acting as their spokesman, to handling difficult situations

*Full of practical advice and experiences for managers and leaders in virtually any area of the user experience field

*Contains best practices, real-world stories, and insights from UX leaders at IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and many more!


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Few have had the time or opportunity to get the kind of experience that Arnie Lund has had. Our very good fortune is that Arnie is the very essence of the reflective practitioner, and has the generosity of mind and spirit to turn his own career experience not into an autobiography or a "managing as I see it" book of tips.  Instead, Dr. Lund takes a deep and wide look at the kinds of organizations and the different kinds of work that he has seen, from many vantage points, and uses that to engage a remarkable set of colleagues to reflect on, explain, and extend the practice of managing experience design. Arnie has been managing on the edge of the emerging fields involved here for as long as they've been emerging.  The breadth of his experience and the discipline of his reflection on it makes for a remarkably comprehensive collection of issues.-Dr. Rick Robinson, Research Fellow, Design Continuum, Boston

--Dr. Rick Robinson, Research Fellow, Design Continuum, Boston

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Arnold (Arnie) Lund, PhD, CUXP is a Principal Director of User Experience at Microsoft. He began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories in applied research, and helped build the science and technology organization at Ameritech. He managed design and exploratory development teams at US West Advanced Technologies, and served as a director at Sapient (where his focus areas ranged from information architecture to leading a global program in emerging technologies). Arnie has been elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy; and co-chaired the CHI conferences in 1998 (Los Angeles) and 2008 (Florence, Italy). He is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), and served on the HFES Executive Council. He has long been engaged in human computer interaction (HCI) standards and in the area of accessibility and emerging technology, including chairing the HFES Institute and overseeing the HFES-200 standard and its approval as an ANSI standard. He is a certified user experience professional and served as president of the board of directors for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE). Arnie received his BA in chemistry from the University of Chicago, and his PhD in experimental psychology: human learning and memory from Northwestern University. He has published widely in R&D management and on research in natural user interfaces, and has a variety of patents. He has been on the advisory and editorial boards of various journals (e.g., Journal of Usability Studies and the International Journal of Speech Technology), and served on the board of directors for INFINITEC (focusing on infinite potential through assistive technologies). Arnie has taught user centered design at Northwestern University and elsewhere, and can be heard periodically teaching at the University of Washington. You can reach out to Arnie over LinkedIn, and follow his experiences as a UX manager on Twitter @ArnieLund.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, organized, and specific advice from an experienced leader of UX teams 19 Sep 2011
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This one is a keeper. Another in Morgan Kaufmann's series of superb professional books.

Arnie Lund started as a researcher, and became a manager first at Bell Labs and later at a variety of large organizations to which UX meant different things under different circumstances. His book is a good balance of specific information and advice with stories of his management experience at his various companies. It's also clearly and persuasively written.

Managing a creative team, especially one whose value is not always recognized by the engineers whose products the UX team is working with, is a challenge. Lund includes specific advice on the skills needed, hiring a balanced team, ensuring that the team grows both as individuals and as a team, putting together a strategy for working with the rest of the company in a productive way that has them recognizing the value of UX. And he doesn't neglect the fine art of inspiring creatives. He also covers how to handle removing someone from the team - from recognizing the need to persuading managers higher up the line, to actually handling the removal.

He gives no space to whining about how engineers think they're superior to UX people. Engineers think they're superior to everybody, and they're wrong. Best not to even get into the issue.

Along with his own advice and stories, Lund includes advice from other managers he respects. Some of this leans toward leadership platitudes, but that only makes Lund's solid material shine even brighter.

If you manage creative people in a hardware or software organization, this book is for you. If you aspire to move from individual contributor to manager, you will likely be a team leader along the way. Much of this book will be helpful to you too. It's well-written, well-organized, and useful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent handbook for team management in creative industry 25 Aug 2011
By C. Prasojo - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a comprehensive handbook designed for anyone who are (or soon to be) working at management level of creative industry, particularly in user experience or human-computer interaction field. It covers everything from starting up the team, hiring strategies, getting things started, designing appropriate environment for the creative team, managing priorities and interests of different parties, stimulating the team, and everything else in between.

Each topic is explained thoroughly with ample examples as well as illustrations in a form of table, chart, or diagram -- all of which are mostly taken from past experiences of UX managers or relevant researches and studies. Comprehensive coverage of UX team management is organized in chapters and sub-chapters, making it quick and easy to understand each concept.

Be it in small fresh startup company or in huge multinational company, this book can be used as a training tool for anyone who would like to venture in UX team management, as well as those professionals who is currently in this field who can use this book as reference and guide. A quick skim would probably give you the right answer to the current problem you're trying to address in your UX team.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great UX Management Reference 19 July 2011
By Jessica Cave - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is a fabulous resource for any UX team manager. It discusses the ins and outs, the team building process, and how to remove people from the team when and if the time comes.

While this book is specifically tailored to UX teams, the great majority of the information can also be applied to graphic or web design teams. The creative process of the design individuals is very similar to that of UX teams. In addition, this book can also be applied to new and experienced managers.

The information is presented both in easy to read informational text - full of fabulous quotes - and illustrative charts and graphs. It's easy to follow along and quite an enjoyable read.

I have a feeling that I will refer to this book for years to come. I highly recommend this book to any manager who will be creating and leading UX teams.
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