It's been a while since my last post. Sorry, guys. Been super busy with "life." :-) I attended a talk a while ago by Janice Fraser called, "Kill Your Darlings." It was at a LeanLA Meetup. The full slides are at the bottom of this post, and below are my takeaways from the presentation. Janice was really fun and showed she has a lot of great experience helping start-ups really focus on getting UX right from a lean angle. Janice is the founder of Adaptive Path, a product design firm. She coined the terms "blog" and "AJAX" and started the field of lean UI design. Her main claim is that a start-up is like a garden, not a cute bunny. You have to remove weeds and be ready to replant it, not nurture it like a pet. She mentioned the main heroes of the lean movement: Eric Ries and Steve Blank (and my friend Patrick, the organizer of the event, is quite its hero too). Lean encompasses customer development (make products people actually want) with agile development (incremental releases). She went through a great example of split testing of home page conversions and how a start-up learned some non-intuitive lessons of how to significantly boost conversions with small changes. Even when you feel strongly about something, it still pays to do experiments. Lean also refers to the Toyota Production System, which emphasizes reducing inventory, risk, and waste. In this context, waste is time spent between making a decision and knowing if it works. In order to reduce waste, she recommends following three types of cycles:
She also went through certain main facets of lean UX design:
Finally, she referenced several texts she recommends:
Lean UX for Startup Teams (Kill Yr Darlings) View more presentations from Janice Fraser
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4/30/2011 08:44:36 am
Thanks for the great summary! Credit where due, though -- Adaptive Path founders peter merholz and jesse james garrett coined the terms "blog" and "ajax", respectively. All you can blame me for is "lean UX". :-) Looking forward to more great stuff in LA.
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Max
4/30/2011 08:47:49 am
Thanks, Janice, for the clarification!
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7/25/2013 06:05:37 pm
The post is really informative. It is so kind of you that you shared some valid points which you got from the talk by Janice Fraser, you attended. Those tips are very useful for anybody who is thinking of a start-up. You have very unique content in your site. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. Keep sharing.
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