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Multidisciplinary Teams and UX Prototyping Strategy
Team Recommendations
Companies like GE, Intuit, Toyota, Buzzfeed, and more work in multidisciplinary
and cross-functional teams to accomplish innovative work. The following are
suggestions based on the research presented in this report.
Multidisciplinary Team Willingness
• 89% of the UI, UX, and Front-End Dev teams feel that it was successful working
in a multidisciplinary role/team in the past.
• 79% of the UI, UX, and Front-End Dev teams feel that working in a
multidisciplinary role/team at Dick’s Sporting Goods would either be awesome
or could work.
Team Skill Set Deficiencies & Discrepancies
• User Data/User Research
There is a large gap between the UI/Front-End Dev and the UX Team’s
knowledge and skill sets concerning user data, user research, qualitative
research, and quantitative research.
Recommendation: The UX Team should incorporate the UI and Front-End Dev
teams in the research process, and even conduct lunch-and-learn sessions
concerning user expectations and standards for web interaction.
• Workflow and Medium Alignment
The Front-End Dev, UI, and UX team are not working in the same project
management systems, softwares, repositories, virtual servers, or workflows.
This leads to duplication of work, recreation of design artifacts, and work not
being performed in the closest medium to the final product.
Recommendation: The UX and UI teams should learn more about code through
online courses/coding sessions at work, all teams could work in project
repositories, and wireframes and comps could be built in HTML, CSS/SCSS, and
JavaScript.
• Accessibility Education
All teams have a lack of knowledge and understanding concerning accessibility
and web standards as it pertains to aging, disabilities, peripheral devices, and
best code and design practices.
Recommendation: All teams should attend general training concerning
accessibility guidelines, and individual teams should develop a deeper
understanding of accessibility through training specific to their areas of focus.