A New Breed of User Experience Professionals

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I have a gut feeling that 2008 will cry for a new breed of IT people called User Experience Professional. I already see some serious changes in the process of designing front ends for such boring business Web applications as pension plan management system or a stock trading application. In the past, a group of programmers would quickly put together (to the best of their design abilities) a wireframe of an application to be developed, discuss the functionality with the users and would start coding. Now it's slowly changing. Recently, I've been running Adobe Flex training for one of the major Wall Street firm. Java programmers were in the audience, we've discussed specifics of the integration of the new front end with their J2EE systems, and then I asked them if they took care of the screen design yet. And they showed me a design document. I was speechless this was clearly the best screen design document I've ever seen in my 25 year career in IT. Very neatly done, eye-candy looking screens color schemes were impeccable. They've hired a third party firm that does just this design of user experience.

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