Building great online user experiences is about a great team. I have been building and leading UX teams in Toronto for nearly 15 years. This is the team structure and outputs I have found to be the ideal situation for building great user experiences..

1. The ideal UX Team and
what they produce

2. XD
Experience Director

3. XD
Personas

4. XD
Personas
Scenarios

5. XD
Scenarios
User Experience
Vision
Personas

6. XD
Scenarios
User Experience
Vision
Personas
User Experience Document (UXD)

7. XD
IA
Interaction Architect

8. XD
IA
Site Map

9. XD
IA
Site Map
Flows

10. XD
IA
Site Map
Flows
Wire frames

11. XD
IA
Site Map
Flows
Wire frames
Interaction Design Document (IDD)

12. XD
IA
D
Designer

13. XD
IA
D
Mood Boards

14. XD
IA
D
Mood BoardsMock-ups

15. XD
IA
D
ID
Interface Developer

16. XD
IA
D
ID
HTML
CSS
DHTML
XHTML
JavaScript
Flash ActionScript

17. XD
IA
D
ID
CS
Content Strategy

18. XD
IA
D
ID
CS
Tone and Manner
Instructional Content
Product Descriptions
FAQs
Copywriting

19. XD
IA
D
ID
CS

20. XD
IA
D
ID
CS
US
Usability Specialist

21. XD
IA
D
ID
CS
US
Usability Testing
Heuristic Evaluation
Card Sorting
Competitive Analysis
User Interviews

22. Questions?