We UX Professionals solve multi-layered, complex and sometimes frustrating issues for both online and offline problems. And, quite honestly, it is the user INexperience that drives our battles and forces us to analyze new ways to solve the same issues.

With so many different persona, application interfaces, retail store signage and roadway maps to look at in the course of a day is it possible that a common, overarching standardization or methodology will never be found? Better yet, do we even need a way to work within a framework that handles the many facets of an experience which combines online with offline to accessibility, or is the cooperation the process?

Disciplinary action

In each interaction with a thing or living creature there is a discipline; a niche. Going further, each discipline can be broken down into special interests or subcategories. A person with impaired vision takes your solution and offers feedback, thereby offering you a chance to develop alternatives that keep the values of the original intention.

Without specialization for each UX discipline, we are back in the stone ages of interaction. It takes the combination of interdisciplinary skills to truly solve problems.

Working beyond our means

It’s quite possible that you’ve been on a project where the good and the bad weren’t challenges presented by the information design or the brand relation between on and offline environments. It is very possible that the good and bad were the people. The talent.

When we partner, truly partner, outside of our skillset we need to let go of our fear that one discipline will outweigh another. If we can trust another with our work or trust another with our experience that they’ll create a solution with the user in mind, everyone wins.