Respect for User Experience

I found a short, practical article about getting respect for user experience people in a organization. This advice really applies to anyone who needs to gain influence and respect amidst people who you work with but are loosely associated. I've started taking this advice, taking the initiative to request invites to meetings, sending designs out more broadly, asserting the right of the user experience team to be involved.

This reminds me a bit of the literature on cost justifying usability. Justifying is essentially making a case for doing usability.

Link to Article