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The Rant
Are UX Agencies Dead?
November 6, 2014
Episode Summary
In this episode of The Digital Life, we talk about the state of the UX economy, and the implications it has for digital agencies.
Like wildfire, word of the demise of UX agencies is spreading through the community. Sparked by the acquisition of Adaptive Path, the closing of Smart Design in San Francisco, and an analysis by UX influential Peter Merholz, the intelligentsia are hailing the decline of UX and design agency work in technology. Exacerbating the situation are rumors that a variety of other agencies are in trouble, trying desperately to get bought as they prepare for a shutdown.
It’s so easy to get caught up in a few data points and a good story. But what’s really going on?