Marketing Influence on UX/IA Communication in Organization Mapping

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Background

Room 102 UX/IA & marketing () Session 3: 3:00 - 3:45

Why marketing affects the IA / UX experience and how to improve communication.

The competition for real estate among internal groups.

How do you add in the strategy for the organization map into marketing and what IA / UX will complete?

Questions

What do people have to do to improve communication?

At what level does the Marketing team get involved. What is adequacy of a product?

Chief Customer Officer as a new role.

IA as an internal communication group to facilitate involvement.

Presentation

Defining ownership

Agencies have a similar problem.

Defining involvement

How many resources should be involved and what the resources could be applied.

Small teams that retain ownership preserve some communication between area.

Is IA not respected in the organization.

Use wire-frames to simplify communication

High-fidelity comps are not the answer and makes it difficult to transmit the ideas. Should the owner be the Marketing or IA.

Information forced to fit into the design if iterative design can't be used or if there is expense to change. There isn't a sense of what the priorities of the design would be.

What is the background of the marketer. Is there a user advocate, analytics, etc.

TODO "Death March Talk" at UW

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What is being communicated

There is a difference between the comps as a reflection of an idea and the priority of the specific elements that need to be implemented. In particular, there could well be technical limits if Development isn't invoked in advance of the sign-off of the comps.

When there are differences between what is being implemented.

Author: Jason Walsh

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