How to Build Better Relationships With Your Team

If the UX maturity on our team is low, it likely isn't because people on the team hate UX designers. It's most likely because they just don't know the alternatives or the culture of the company are not what we want them to be. So how can we do that? Well, we include them. Read your important product and engineering people in brainstorming or whiteboard sessions. Get them involved with planning research. Actually take them along when you do research. This will also go towards building the UX team up as a trusted expert and a partner. And everybody on the team should really feel like they own some aspect of the user experience.