Two months ago Dave Lougheed, VP User Experience at KLIC agency, published a presentation in Slideshare called The ideal UX team and what they produce. In the presentation Dave go through the essential positions required to build an ideal UX team:

I liked this exercise of summarising the key abilities that any serious interactive development should involve, and since I have to assume most of them into my single head for my thesys I’ve created this image that groups all his presentation slides:

Finally I’ve tried to translate this team oriented approach to a research or conceptual oriented context:

I’m not sure if this quick research translation is valid but I fell it practical. Anyway I hope to come back regularly to this diagram while I complete my UX readings and see what updates requires, if any.

You can also download an editable version of these images in Powerpoint format.

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