{"id":286953,"date":"2019-05-07T07:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=286953"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:21:51","slug":"the-place-of-ux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/the-place-of-ux\/","title":{"rendered":"The Place of UX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time &#8220;<abbr title=\"User Experience\">UX<\/abbr>&#8221; comes out of my mouth or is typed by my fingers, I think, &#8220;did I just use that term correctly?&#8221; It feels like such a big and loaded term these days, that perhaps the way I use it only contributes to the confusion. Ryan Singer frames that problem well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Debates continue to rage about the role of UX designers, user research, and how far knowledge about the user should permeate the organization. On one extreme, UX is seen as a specialized pocket of knowledge that informs the definition of projects and sets requirements. On the other, UX is something for which the entire organization should somehow feel responsible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It can feel so big, like <abbr title=\"User Experience\">UX<\/abbr> is literally the only thing that matters in an entire project. It can also feel so small, like 2px of extra padding on a specific dropdown will make the options easier to tap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time &#8220;UX&#8221; comes out of my mouth or is typed by my fingers, I think, &#8220;did I just use that term correctly?&#8221; It feels like such a big and loaded term these days, that perhaps the way I use it only contributes to the confusion. Ryan Singer frames that problem well: Debates continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[17],"tags":[932],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/signal-noise-place-of-ux.png?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287086,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286953\/revisions\/287086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}