Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

This book introduces Lean UX, an emerging approach to digital product development that, for the first time, places user experience in its rightful place as the beating heart of Agile and Lean Startup. Grounded in deep cross-functional collaboration and rigorous experimentation, Lean UX is both a mindset and a collection of working practices with the potential to dramatically increase the effectiveness of user experience practitioners and transform teams and organizations everywhere. In Lean UX, authors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden challenge designers to drop our "hero" stance, and instead position ourselves as shepherds of the team's collective creative process. To this end, Gothelf and Seiden provide a wealth of practical tools, advice, and case studies--complete with worksheets and detailed instruction--that promise to empower any motivated team to get started with Lean UX and realize immediate results. Given the mainstream adoption of Agile and the extraordinary interest in Lean Startup, I believe the Lean UX methods described in this book are quickly on their way to becoming mainstream. Lean UX is a practical, powerful resource for designers, software developers, product managers, entrepreneurs and anyone interested in mastering Lean UX to begin delivering increasingly successful digital products and services.

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.

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!

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. :)

I liked that it makes the process really simple. It is great for people in big companies trying to move fast. Small companies probably already know this stuff. Good for speeding up an app release, but I missed more about the integration between other teams that are also using the lean process.

Great little book, that quickly illustrates a lean ux model with plenty of workable examples. Make sure to read Eric Reis' lean startup first, as while most of the relevant concepts are described in Lean Ux you're unlikely to understand in enough depth to take full advantage.For example grasping what a concierge mvp was from description in this book alone might have been difficult. Kinda glad not to hear all the same detailed explanations all over again though (in a way the brisk nature of this book is a merit. No unnecessary waste!)

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.

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

Je trouve le livre très bien fait pour comprendre l'écosystème Lean Start Up, Ux et Agile avec une très bonne vulgarisation. Je le conseille à ceux qui veulent avoir une vue d'ensemble des trois mouvements. 120 pages, ça se lit vite. Ca ne rentre pas dans le détail et pour cela il faudra prendre d'autres lectures plus pointues. Le point négatif à mon gout, c'est le prix qui est élevé pour le contenu. Je ne parle pas du nombre de pages car Jeff Gothelf ne delaye pas (ce que j'apprécie), mais bien du rapport fond/prix.