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UX as Disruption: Managing Team Conflict as a Productive Resource

UX as Disruption: Managing Team Conflict as a Productive Resource

Emma J. Rose, Josh Tenenberg
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1941-6253|EISSN: 1941-6261|EISBN13: 9781466676794|DOI: 10.4018/IJSKD.2015070101
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Rose, Emma J., and Josh Tenenberg. "UX as Disruption: Managing Team Conflict as a Productive Resource." IJSKD vol.7, no.3 2015: pp.1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSKD.2015070101

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Rose, E. J. & Tenenberg, J. (2015). UX as Disruption: Managing Team Conflict as a Productive Resource. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 7(3), 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSKD.2015070101

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Rose, Emma J., and Josh Tenenberg. "UX as Disruption: Managing Team Conflict as a Productive Resource," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) 7, no.3: 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSKD.2015070101

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Abstract

Over the past 30 years, there has been an ongoing shift in software from a system-centered to user-centered approach. When user-centered approaches are introduced to teams and organizations, conflict often emerges. Conflict could be dismissed as idiosyncratic differences among team members. In this paper, the authors account for conflicts as a clash of worldview between occupational communities: engineers and UX designers. They define the engineering worldview as the application of science and mathematics to structure sociotechnical processes to solve concrete, pre-specified problems, from an external perspective. By contrast, the UX worldview is a human-centered exploration, through iterative cycles of design and inquiry, of the contingent and context-sensitive ways people mediate activities with technologies and systems. Interpersonal conflict in teams symbolizes a conflict between sharply contrasting ways of seeing the world. By considering the root causes, project managers can productively leverage the expertise of both communities by managing expectations, relations, and artifacts.

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