UX-Stakeholder Engagement 101

Dialog, action, and compromise are all needed to build successful, mutually supportive relationships with your project’s stakeholders.

Summary: Dialog, action, and compromise are all needed to build successful, mutually supportive relationships with your project’s stakeholders.


Stakeholders ’ buy-in and support is an integral component of success for any UX project, as they translate into resources, bandwidth, and approval. However, navigating stakeholder dynamics requires a thoughtful mix of listening, collaboration, communication, influence, and negotiation. This balancing act leads to stakeholder engagement and ultimately creates successful, long-term relationships.

Continuous communication with stakeholders is important for any UX project — first, because it helps them understand and appreciate what UX does and, second, because it helps UX learn about other essential aspects of the business. Despite this duality, the burden of communication usually falls on UX — because stakeholders are inherently busy and possibly focused on many other things besides UX.

Engaging stakeholders in the UX process usually involves several high-level activities:

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