Culture Eats UX Strategy for Breakfast
The article summarizes 8 key programs that UX leaders employ in order to build and sustain strong UX cultures within their companies. These programs can be viewed as a “UX culture palette”. Each program in the palette is composed of activities which UX leaders can use to engage with the various stakeholders, teams, and business functions at their companies. The palette is a tool for thinking more broadly and systematically about practicing UX at scale within a business organization.
Culture Eats UX Strategy for Breakfast
The article summarizes 8 key programs that UX leaders employ in order to build and sustain strong UX cultures within their companies. These programs can be viewed as a “UX culture palette”. Each program in the palette is composed of activities which UX leaders can use to engage with the various stakeholders, teams, and business functions at their companies. The palette is a tool for thinking more broadly and systematically about practicing UX at scale within a business organization.
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Judy Ko
SVP Marketing
Liam is simply the best user experience professional I have ever worked with. His relentless focus on excellence and out-of-the-box thinking ensure that our products are always designed with our customers in mind.
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Wei Zheng
VP Products
Liam is a passionate business leader that understands what it takes to build solid software products with exceptional user experiences. Liam excels at evangelizing and training usability concepts across many lines of business in the company, as well as mentoring his entire team to ensure the highest quality standards.
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Dan Rosenberg
UX Executive + Professor
Liam is one of my favorite designers to work with. He is very talented and his work always demonstrates deep insight and elegance. I think that says it all. Liam is an A+ player on any team at any company.
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Paolo Malabuyo
UX Leader
Liam was already a well-regarded senior UI designer at Oracle when he decided to join Microsoft, and I was very happy to be able to join him there the following year. He's always super passionate about his work and he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and insight about designing user experiences.
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Jon Innes
UX Consultant
I have worked with Liam for many years and he is one of the top user experience designers in the business. Our relationship spans work at Oracle, Siebel, as well as my current employer SAP. Most recently he helped us with some strategic design deliverables that required international collaboration. As always, he delivered on time and under budget.