Evangelizing Usability to 700 People: Strategies for Building a User-Centered Organizational Culture
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For the last three years, CESAR’s user experience team has endeavored to build a user-centered organizational culture. In this report, we present some succeeding empirical strategies for evangelizing usability, in the hope that professionals in similar contexts might benefit from them.
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