Within Jack Danger Canty’s model of Technical Coherence a UX domain is:

Jack Danger Canty 1

A UX domain is an encapsulation of a complex area such that there is a lot happening internal to that area, but very little on the surface.

Alternatively, a UX domain is all of the user experiences you facilitate for a user while they are in the same role. A test for splitting a domain is: “Would the UX experience make more sense if it was services by one large team or two smaller teams?”

Domain Encapsulation Quality

A way to evaluate how well we have defined a domain1.

1. Danger, J. Executive Engineering: Practical Engineering Theory for Software Leaders. (The Technical Executive, 2024).