On earning respect and doing what we love - Interaction South America 2013

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Our career and our professional relationships are a design problem that we can solve with a design process. How can we designers get the professional respect we want? This talk explores several topics and models that can help not only you, but the design community as well, along the way. - (Very brief) history of IxDA - The respect ladder: Respect the discipline, Colleague’s respect, Cross-functional respect, Management respect, Sponsors respect, Universal respect. - The levels of the respect ladder: Professionalism, leadership, entrepreneurship. Professionalism: 1. Acceptance criteria 2. Professional, effective communication 3. Planning and management 4. Don’t get attached to decisions & results Leadership: 1. Speak the language 2. Keeping problems out of the relationship 3. Responsibility and the art of saying “no” 4. Dealing with difficult people Entrepreneurship: 1. Establishing a vision 2. Establishing client and offer 3. Management styles 4. The cycle of interaction with clients Designing our career: - Our career and and our life as a design problem - Individual efforts and collective efforts - What conversations do we need to have between us? Join your IxDA local group or apply to start one at ixda.org/local !

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Professional respect

“It’s time we got respect.Bruce Tognazzini, 2003

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

The respect staircase

↗Universal respect↗ Sponsors respect↗Management respect↗ Cross-functional respect↗ Colleague’s respect↗ Respect the discipline

José Allona

Professionalism

Leadership:achieving resultswith others

Entrepreneurship:bringing something new to the world

Professionalismfrom dealing with artifacts,

to dealing with people

1. Acceptance criteria

Technical Professional

2. Professional, effective communication

LISTEN

SPEAK

INFORMATION FEELINGS

Understand

Explain Express

Empathize

3. Planning and management

C O S T

Quality

SCHEDULE

S C O P E

4. Don’t get attached to decisions & results

Leadershipachieving results with others

1. Speak the language

Understand & specify

context of use

Specify UX objectives & requirements

Create user support &

training materials

Provide user support & training

Stakeholder Sponsor Domainleader

User voice Final user

UX SpecialistAnalyst

UX DesignerDeveloper Design UX Design Interaction components

Tester UX Tester Review UX design Prepare usability testing

Conduct usability testing

User model

Tasks model

UX Goal User support & training

document

UX Concept

Prototype Storyboard User flow

Andrés Rodríguez: OpenUP/MMU-ISO

2. Keeping problems out of the relationship

2. Keeping problems out of the relationship

3. Responsibility and the art of saying “no”

3. Yes1. Yes 2. No

William Ury: The Power of a Positive No

4. Dealing with difficult people

Normal zone

Get it right

Get along

Get it done

Get appreciated

TASK FOCUS

PEOPLE FOCUS

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE

Rick Brinkman & Rick Kirschner: Dealing with Difficult People

Entrepreneurshipbring something new to the world

1. Establishing a vision

The world we want– The world we have

The work ahead

2. Establishing client and offer

who

what

how

3. Management styles

Command and Control

Econ 101 Identity Management

Joel Spolsky: Three Management Methods

4. The cycle of interaction with clients

4. Prepare

3. Assurance

1. Offer

2. Realization

Client SupplierClient’s interests

Juan Carlos Lucas - Hacer Historia

Designingour career

Ideas

ProductData

BUILD

MEASURE

LEARN

Individual efforts Collective efforts