Alastair Jardine

Senior UX architect

What does a UX architect do? I work with a team of software developers at The Guardian to create software that users enjoy using. That might mean the website, mobile apps, internal tools – you name it. Currently, I’m working on the internal content-creation and -management tools that we use to publish articles onto the website quickly. What does your typical day look like? A big part of the job is trying to understand what people need – so I spend a lot of time talking to users: this could range from one-to-one chats to formal sessions in a dedicated studio. A few years ago, UX was treated as something a bit separate – we were almost expected to take the project specification away and come back with a finished product. We work…

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