Comments on: The Politics of User Experience http://boxesandarrows.com/the-politics-of-user-experience/ Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Blake http://boxesandarrows.com/the-politics-of-user-experience/#comment-8915 Mike Blake Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/the-politics-of-user-experience/#comment-8915 Great article. I find we (federal webmasters) often spend more of our time to ensure that our contractor web development support staff are conversant on the 508 and federal web guidelines (for which the information is spread over multiple agency web sites by the way). We should be concentrating totally on defining how we can better organize and map our information to meet our intended audience needs. I believe that this is intention of the e-gov intiatives intially established. But, these are the times we live in and politics often drive the ship.

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Good to read your thoughts. You offer good material for IA students (especially those in DC). I appreciate your input.
Thom Haller

]]> By: Chris http://boxesandarrows.com/the-politics-of-user-experience/#comment-8917 Chris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/the-politics-of-user-experience/#comment-8917 Having done web development for “contracting” companies in the DC metro area for the past six years I appreciate the article as well.

In my view federal agency politics can even influence fundamental approaches such as whether or not to put stats in a sortable database rather than using a static page mimicking the printed medium. (A client was opposed to the database approach b/c users would be able to sort the data and discover which states ranked poorly compared to others and the agency spin would have been de- emphasized.)

Then there are the clients who mistype URLs when writing colleagues who then send caustic messages to the contractor because they think the site is down, etc.

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