# What Developer Experience Engineers can learn from User Experience Engineers

DevFeed: [What Developer Experience Engineers can learn from User Experience Engineers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-developer-experience-engineers-can-learn-from-user-experience-engineers-39951.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/user-experience-teachings-for-developer-experience-engineers/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2022-05-28T13:15:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [Usability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usability.md>), [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>), [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [culture-developer-productivity-software-craft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture-developer-productivity-software-craft.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [dx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dx.md>), [usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usability.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>), [user-experience-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience-design.md>), [users](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/users.md>)

## AI overview

The article reflects on how developer experience engineers can apply established user experience engineering practices. It discusses the UX journey, the why, what, and how of product use, Peter Morville's User Experience Honeycomb, and the importance of understanding developers' needs through research and observation.

## Source excerpt

What Developer Experience Engineers can learn from User Experience Engineers While developer experience is a relatively new term, user experience is not. In fact, the term user experience was probably first coined in 1990 by Don Norman: