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UX management challenges to solve in 2022 and beyond

The growing field of UX needs strong managers who can help it get to the level and become fully embedded in businesses

Yaron Cohen
UX Collective
9 min readDec 28, 2021
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In recent years, the field of UX has matured a lot. People can learn the design practices in a myriad of bootcamps, university programs, and by reading articles on Medium.

After spending a few years working in the field, I realized that one of the big challenges many companies face is how to manage UX as part of an organization that delivers digital products. By this I mean, managing practitioners and teams with different UX skills, and influencing product roadmaps so that design is embedded in the digital product delivery process instead of being viewed more as an afterthought.

With the growing demand for UX people comes a growing demand for UX managers to step up, and 2022 marks the starting point. What will be the biggest 10 challenges UX managers and leaders will have to think about this year and beyond to help the field of UX management mature?

To make this article more digestible, I separated the 10 challenges into two categories: foundation, and ongoing operations. Let’s get started.

Foundation Work

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Written by Yaron Cohen

Product design strategist in the banking industry (Canada). Author of the newsletter signaltoproduct.substack.com. Passionate about music, data, and the future.

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