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UX/PM/engineer collaboration — a critical factor for a product’s success

Ryu Sakai
UX Collective
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10 min readMay 12, 2020
A diagram conceptually showing a criticality of UX/PM/engineer collaboration.
UX/PM/engineer collaboration is critical for success

MMany UX educations tend to put UX in isolation, and disregard the importance of UX/PM/engineer collaboration. But in reality, a success of a project/product from a UX perspective is more affected by how well a collaboration among these three disciplines is executed, rather than what a UX team or a UX designer alone can do.

When I was younger, I used to think that a UX designer has a tremendous power and influence on a user experience of a product, and thus it’s the quality of UX designer’s design output that ultimately impacts the quality of the final product’s user experience the most.

This still holds true, but only if other critical condition is met successfully.

And that critical condition is, UX/PM/engineer collaboration.

I learned this the hard way through various failures, which I would like to share with you.

Collaboration with PM (product manager)

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Written by Ryu Sakai

An experienced UX designer, who wants to help aspiring to-be-UX designers who don’t know where to start. Ryu is a founder of https://products.realworldux.co.

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