Towards a UX manifesto

In this workshop we invite researchers, educators and practitioners to contribute to the construction of a coherent Manifesto for the field of User Experience (UX). Such a UX manifesto should express statements about issues like: Fundamental assumptions underlying UX (principles), positioning of UX relative to other domains (policy) and action plans for improving the design and evaluation of UX (plans). The UX manifesto can become a reference model for future work on UX. 1. BACKGROUND & MOTIVATION Is the research and practice on User Experience (UX) maturing since it has popularized the HCI community and the industry more than a decade ago? Is there a unified view about principles of UX? Are there any well-defined policies where to position UX in a map of the Information Technology (IT) landscape, which is populated by usability, human factors, interaction design, software engineering, marketing, and other domains? Are there any sound plans how to refine methodologies on designing for, evaluating and teaching UX? In fact, such set of Principles, Policies and Plans constitute what we coin «UX Manifesto», which is deemed important for the maturation of this emerging domain by providing the foundation, objectives, and action plans for the future work of UX. Principles inform the formation of policies, which in turn feed into plans as courses of action.