lean ux at work at theladders
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This is the short talk I gave at the beginning of the June 2nd, 2011 meeting of the NYC Agile Experience Design meetup. It is meant to give context to the panel discussion which followed. That consisted of 4 non-designers (dev, product, qa) giving their POV on Lean UX. The full video of that talk is here: http://www.vimeo.com/24638334TRANSCRIPT
Lean UX in practice at TheLaddersHigh five!
Agile Experience Design Meetup – June 2nd, 2011, NYC
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We’re hirin
g!
Designers,
developers and m
ore…
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.
http://lauriesims.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/repeat.jpg
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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