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Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience 1st Edition

by Josh Seiden (Editor), Jeff Gothelf (Author)
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The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today’s web-driven reality. In this insightful book, leading advocate Jeff Gothelf teaches you valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques from the ground up―how to rapidly experiment with design ideas, validate them with real users, and continually adjust your design based on what you learn.

Inspired by Lean and Agile development theories, Lean UX lets you focus on the actual experience being designed, rather than deliverables. This book shows you how to collaborate closely with other members of the product team, and gather feedback early and often. You’ll learn how to drive the design in short, iterative cycles to assess what works best for the business and the user. Lean UX shows you how to make this change―for the better.

  • Frame a vision of the problem you’re solving and focus your team on the right outcomes
  • Bring the designers’ toolkit to the rest of your product team
  • Share your insights with your team much earlier in the process
  • Create Minimum Viable Products to determine which ideas are valid
  • Incorporate the voice of the customer throughout the project cycle
  • Make your team more productive: combine Lean UX with Agile’s Scrum framework
  • Understand the organizational shifts necessary to integrate Lean UX

    Lean UX received the 2013 Jolt Award from Dr. Dobb's Journal as the best book of the year. The publication's panel of judges chose five notable books, published during a 12-month period ending June 30, that every serious programmer should read.

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  5. Publication date
    April 9, 2013
  6. Language
    English
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Jeff Gothelf on How to Do Lean UX in 5 Easy Steps

  1. Solve problems together: Ensure that every member of your team is present during brainstorming for new projects. Give your teams problems to solve, not solutions to implement. The outcome will be a far more efficient and productive team creating higher quality products and experiences.

  • Sketch: Introduce the team to sketching in order to help them visualize their ideas and come to a consensus.

  • Prototype: Get to a product experience as quickly as possible. Use prototypes of varying fidelities to get a sense of what your product's experience will be and validate that with customers to ensure you're headed down the right path.

  • Pair your developers and designers: Have developers and designers pair up to create the user interfaces. Each will learn from the other and build the trust necessary for greater team collaboration and productivity.

  • Create a style guide: Codify your design elements in pattern libraries and code repositories so creating new pages and workflows in your product is as easy as picking the pieces from the style guide. It also allows the team to quickly piece together experiences for prototypes and empowers your developers to build interfaces without constant review with the UX designer.

About the Author

Jeff Gothelf is a designer & Agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX & Lean UX and a highly sought-after international speaker. He is currently a Managing Director in Neo's New York City office. Previously, Jeff has led teams at TheLadders, Publicis Modem, WebTrends, Fidelity, & AOL.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (April 9, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449311652
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449311650
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    Jeff helps organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. Starting off as a software designer, Jeff now works as a coach, consultant and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management and human-centred design. His latest book, Forever Employable, was published in June 2020.

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    Josh Seiden is a designer, author, coach, and product leader with deep experience creating digital products and services. He brings an entrepreneurial spirit and user-centered perspective to his work with companies large and small. He helps teams find and validate market opportunities, and then to create the right approach to go after these opportunities, and to design and ship great products and services.

    Josh is a popular and highly sought-after speaker who appears at conferences around the world. He teaches workshops in Agile and Lean methods for product teams and often works with teams as a coach and mentor.

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David A. Yuknat
5.0 out of 5 stars "Don't Make Me Think" For A New Generation
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013
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Been waiting for this one. I could not believe it took so long to be released - a good solid year after I first heard about it at South By Southwest. Seemed ironic that a book about "Lean" would take so long to release!

I ate this book up. It came along at a great time, my UX team is reevaluating our process, and I am navigating my relationship with a born again "agile" development team.

Years back, I moved upstream from front-end development and started a career in usability and UI design, and I much of the credit to Steve Krug's classic, "Don't Make Me Think". I see parallels here I believe will propel "Lean UX" a into a must-own classic. It is concise, well written and easy to read in an afternoon (or a "long plane ride", if you will!). It is full of current, yet time-tested thinking that spells out an easy to implement process that you can get up and running in short order.

Lean UX is a common sense approach, with a focus on collaboration, iteration & proving out ideas by getting design ideas quickly into the field. This book will likely inspire you reconsider your existing product development process.

I'm recommending this book to everyone on my team, and to colleagues across other functions as well.

Now, stop reading reviews and order this book already.
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Tarang
4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for teams adopting Agile practices
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2013
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The book is well organized and an easy read. I would say even if you are not focused on say Lean startup techniques, yet interested in removing waste as in the traditional Lean practices, then this is an essential read for Product Managers and Development team. I am highly recommending this to Product Owners and team members of Scrum teams as the Lean approach points to how one can get teams focused.

The book could have done with better proof reading as errors in terminology may put folks off yet there are excellent elements of such as having a hypotheses and essentially taking a Scientific approach in testing the hypotheses. So sure the four Agile values are incorrectly stated as principles, and no doubt in the abstract one can confuse values and/or principles. In fact they could have provided some treatment to the twelve Agile principles [...] in order to introduce a narrower set of principles as there are some overlapping principles. As someone already mentioned the 15 or so principles would have been better presented in a simpler form that is memorable.

The main thrust of the book is that early on in Software industry development was undertaken at the behest of someones best guess. Now, software development is no longer the new kid on the block and fortunately we now have tools and techniques learnt as a result of the past that pushes teams to be more deliberate with the choices they make versus a choice made in some ivory tower. Sure a higher level choice is made through company and product strategy. This hasn't trickled down as easily as one would imagine and Lean UX shows a way in how one can focus on flow of ideas all the way to customer realizing value based on customer feedback and frequent learning that teams engage in.
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Adrian
5.0 out of 5 stars More than a Lean UX book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2013
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I just finished reading Lean UX and I have to say that the author, Jeff Gothelf, nailed it! This book is very well organized, to the point, and describes practical solutions and techniques that fit in todays "real world" of software development.

The biggest asset of this book, in my opinion, is that it's a short and easy read. That means I can hand this book to other people and they just might read it! It does not overwhelm readers with frivolous design speak and project management history lessons.

I would say that this book has a hidden value that is only apparent after you have read the book. That is, this book will HELP ANYONE trying to develop quality software! The techniques and information is just as valuable to Product Mangers, Project Managers, Developers, QA, and Business Analysts as it is to the UX professional.

This is more than Lean UX! This is the best UX book I have read to date, and I am sharing it with my team as well as business analysts and project managers at my company.

Well done!
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Boomie
4.0 out of 5 stars Feeling inefficient and soloed? Read this book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014
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Loved it. Really straightforward easy to understand with great real-life examples and photos of how other companies, including some huge ones like PayPal, meetup.com, and Dropbox, implemented lean ux and the growing pains. Takes a lot of pressure off of designers and creates a more team-effort feel which is both scary (as I am a designer used to working in my little cave) and exciting. I rated 4 stars and not 5 because I would have liked some more detailed how-to's for the entire process, and not just the concepts. Like how to include everyone throughout while battling with their time and availability for their primary jobs, how to make executive decisions when needed without being a hero or breaking the process. When changes are too small to have meetings and collaboration over, etc. all these little uncertainties I have make it scary but he mentions in most of his real-life stories that perfecting the lean us process was also a process and isn't something that had to be perfectly executed the first time. I will be implementing this next month across the company and cities and am excited and a little sweaty to do it. :) this book makes me feel more prepared... But I'll still need to carry extra deodorant as I get started. :)
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Tania
5.0 out of 5 stars everything as advertised
Reviewed in Spain on December 5, 2022
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everything as advertised. well packaged, book in excellent condition and delivery within the estimated time. I recommend :)
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Cliente de Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars un libro básico para el agile
Reviewed in Mexico on February 13, 2019
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Si trabajas en proyectos de desarrollo de aplicaciones o sistemas digitales, este libro debe ser básico en tu conocimiento y tus bases , lo recomiendo ampliamente un clásico que nunca pasa de moda en el mundo de agile
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Mrssru
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read with real advice
Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2016
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A great read with real advice. All creators of things must be aware of the end user and understand the experience as paramount to successful execution.
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Maxmiliano Andriani
5.0 out of 5 stars Livro interessante
Reviewed in Brazil on May 24, 2015
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Gostei muito da temática deste livro, e seu conteúdo é bem válido. Porém a voz é um pouco mercadológica e isso eu desaprovo. Leandro Ux é bom mas não é a solução pra todos os seus problemas.
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Mr. D. F. Watts
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for none developers too
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2016
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I don't work as a developer but I do work with developers. This gave me a great understanding of some of the modern concepts that our developers discuss and helps me to provide some constructive input, in context, when we discuss what the priorities are. It contains all the vocabulary I need as well as the business reasons for why LEAN is important. Very readable too. I recommend this to lots of people who work in a similar position to me.
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