UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CMFJZ1Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 289 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market.No prior experience in UX or design is necessary to get started. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. If you’re an entrepreneur or an innovator, this book puts you right to work with proven tips and tools for researching, identifying, and designing an intuitive, easy-to-use product.Determine whether people will buy your product before you build itListen to your customers throughout the product’s lifecycleUnderstand why you should design a test before you design a productGet nine tools that are critical to designing your productDiscern the difference between necessary features and nice-to-havesLearn
I think the addition of data is the most important change to design that I’ve seen. The only way to truly be a Lean Startup is to Build, Measure, and Learn (and then Iterate). 4. Quantitative research tells you what. Q. Q&A with Laura Klein, author of "UX for Lean Startups"Q. Laura's top 5 tips for readers:1. Don’t build something crappy and unusable and then claim it’s a minimum viable product. Things like A/B testing and funnel analysis (quant) are useful for explaining things like which design caused people to buy more products and where people fell out of the purchase fu
Great for laymen and startup people in general - not experienced UX designers Leisa Miller Great introduction for people who don't really know much about UX Design. It was well written, pretty funny, and valuable. Only downside for me was that it seemed a little bit repetitive. Still worth the read though!The introduction of the book talked about what Lean UX is and isn’t. It was compared to Agile Design and User-Centered Design, which meant nothing to me, to be honest. The actual definition was irrelevant to why I was reading this book - I care more about the practice and benefits of Lean UX. But the rest of the book got into the meat of that.Lean UX can be summarized into 3 principles: 1. Do research. Ask questions, ma. My boss challenged me to figure that out and through this book ( and a few others in the series like Lean Customer) I realized w Amazon Customer I work for one of the largest companies in the world. We have tons of ideas, too many. What we didn't have was a way to prove that people wanted the ideas. My boss challenged me to figure that out and through this book ( and a few others in the series like Lean Customer) I realized we had all the pieces in the company already, we just needed to tie it all together.As an engineer I also used to take the mindset that only the consumer research folks in the company could talk to customers. Now I try and talk to 3 a week. Ideas are rarely the issue which is the focus of many other books.I came out of too many brainstorming sessions thinking . Jess said I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It explains UX design in the context of lean startups. It’s a great read for anyone, even if you don’t work at a startup. And it made me laugh out loud several times as I was reading. (I listen to Laura’s podcast, What is Wrong with UX, so I’m familiar with her sarcastic sense of humor.)Laura shows you how to validate hypotheses with UX tools like user research. She goes into detail about the different user research methods out there and when to use them.I’m glad Laura also explains an MVP. Contrary to popular belief, an MVP is not the s***tiest version of your product you can