Lean UX in practice at TheLaddersHigh five!

Agile Experience Design Meetup – June 2nd, 2011, NYC

Job site for professionals earning $100k or more and the recruiters/employers looking to hire them.

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We’re hirin

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Designers,

developers and m

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Our first attempts at merging Agile and UX..well…Where others had failed, so did we

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So we iterated the processAgain and again.

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We learned (at least) two big things…

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1. Solve problems together

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Problem-statement focusNot features

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Solve the problem togetherAs opposed to implementing someone else’s solution

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2. Focus on experiences, not deliverables

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Lean UXInspired by Lean Startup and Agile development theories, it’s the practice of bringing the true nature of our work to light faster, with less emphasis on deliverables and greater focus on the actual experience being designed.

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It goes a little something like this…Initially focused on just the UX folks

Concept Prototype

Validate Internall

y

Test Externally

Learn from user

behavior

Iterate

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The only thing being removed is waste.You leave that stuff laying around and it starts to stink!

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Example of Lean UX at workBeginning sketch

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Example of Lean UX at workPhotoshop hack

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Example of Lean UX at workVisual design

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Example of Lean UX at workLive site

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Ben BurtonSoftware Developer

Greg JonesSoftware Developer

Matt GundelQA Engineer

Adrian JankProduct Manager

Let’s meet the team…Formed to solve the Connections problem

@bjburton @adrianjank