Jeff Gothelf

Josh Seiden

User experience (UX) design has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice, with wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, and mockups. But in today’s web-driven reality, orchestrating the entire design from the get-go no longer works. This hands-on book demonstrates Lean UX, a deeply collaborative and cross-functional process that lets you strip away heavy deliverables in favor of building shared understanding with the rest of the product team. Lean UX is the evolution of product design; refined through the real-world experiences of companies large and small, these practices and principles help you maintain daily, continuous engagement with your teammates, rather than work in isolation. This book shows you how to use Lean UX on your own projects. Get a tactical understanding of Lean UX—and how it changes the way teams work together Frame a vision of the problem you’re solving and focus your team on the right outcomes Bring the designer’s tool kit to the rest of your product team Break down the silos created by job titles and learn to trust your teammates Improve the quality and productivity of your teams, and focus on validated experiences as opposed to deliverables/documents Learn how Lean UX integrates with Agile UX

Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

Lean UX

"A project has to have a goal, otherwise, how do you know you're done? In the old days of engineering, setting project goals wasn't that hard. But when you're making software products, done is less obvious. When is Microsoft Word done? When is Google done? Or Facebook? In reality, software systems are never done. So then how do we give teams a goal that they can work on? Mostly, we simply ask teams to build features-but features are the wrong way to go. We often build features that create no value. Instead, we need to give teams an outcome to achieve. Setting goals as outcomes sounds simple, but it can be hard to do in practice. This book is a practical guide to using outcomes to guide the work of your team"--Publisher's website.

Why Customer Behavior is the Key Metric for Business Success

Outcomes Over Output

We're in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people's behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. New technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.But this is no mere tech issue; it is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. Yet most organizations and their leaders have been slow to respond, continuing to rely on outmoded engineering-based operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have.But sense and respond organizations--organizations that have the capacity to sense and respond instantly to customer, employee, and other stakeholder behaviors--are emerging. In Sense and Respond, Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, leading tech experts and founders of the global Lean UX movement, vividly show how these companies operate, highlighting the new mind-set and skills needed to lead and manage them--and to continuously innovate within them.Becoming a sense and respond organization requires shifting from managing outputs to what the authors call "outcome-focused management"; forming self-guided teams that can read and react to a fast-changing environment; creating a learning-all-the-time culture that can understand and respond to new customer behaviors and the data they generate; and finally, developing in everyone at the company the new universal skills of customer listening, assessment, and response. This important and practical book provides a holistic new operational and management model to help organizations and their leaders sense and respond--and to win--in a world transformed by new technologies.--

How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously

Sense and Respond

Lean UX is synonymous with modern product design and development. By combining human-centric design, agile ways of working, and a strong business sense, designers, product managers, developers, and scrum masters around the world are making Lean UX the leading approach for digital product teams today. In the third edition of this award-winning book, authors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden help you focus on the product experience rather than deliverables. You'll learn tactics for integrating user experience design, product discovery, agile methods, and product management. And you'll discover how to drive your design in short, iterative cycles to assess what works best for businesses and users. Lean UX guides you through this change--for the better. Facilitate the Lean UX process with your team with the Lean UX Canvas Ensure every project starts with clear customer-centric success criteria Understand the role of designer on a agile team Write and contribute design and experiment stories to the backlog Ensure that design work takes place in every sprint Build product discovery into your team's "velocity"

The authors of Lean UX and Sense and Respond return with this deeply practical guide to Objectives and Key Results.

OKRs are a simple but powerful goal-setting framework used by leading companies in every industry imaginable. This book will help you learn how to succeed with OKRs by using them to put your customers at the center of everything you do.

 A Practical Guide to Customer-Centric OKRs

Who Does What By How Much?

Das Standardwerk für agile UX-Teams Die erfolgreichen Methoden von Lean Startup im UX-Design einsetzen Von den Lean-UX-Prinzipien bis zur Integration der -Praktiken im Team und Unternehmen Für UX-Designer*innen, Scrum Master und Manager*innen Lean UX ist ein Synonym für modernes Produktdesign und -entwicklung. Durch die Kombination von menschenzentriertem Design, agilen Arbeitsweisen und einem ausgeprägten Geschäftssinn machen Designer*innen, Produktmanager*innen, Entwickler*innen und Scrum Master auf der ganzen Welt Lean UX heute zum führenden Ansatz für digitale Produktteams. In der dritten Auflage dieses preisgekrönten Buches helfen Ihnen die Autoren Jeff Gothelf und Josh Seiden, sich auf das Produkterlebnis und nicht auf die Ergebnisse zu konzentrieren. Sie lernen Taktiken für die Integration von User Experience Design, Produktentdeckung, agilen Methoden und Produktmanagement kennen. Und Sie erfahren, wie Sie Ihr Design in kurzen, iterativen Zyklen vorantreiben können, um zu ermitteln, was für Unternehmen und Benutzer*innen am besten funktioniert. Lean UX führt Sie durch diesen Wandel – zum Besseren. - Erleichtern Sie Ihrem Team den Lean-UX-Prozess mit dem Lean-UX-Canvas. - Stellen Sie sicher, dass jedes Projekt mit klaren kundenzentrierten Erfolgskriterien beginnt. - Verstehen Sie die Rolle des Designers in einem agilen Team. - Stellen Sie sicher, dass die Designarbeit in jedem Sprint stattfindet. - Bauen Sie Produktentdeckung in die "Geschwindigkeit" Ihres Teams ein.

Mit agilen Teams erfolgreiche Produkte designen

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today's agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning (audio) book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process. Inspired by Lean and Agile development theories, Lean UX lets you focus on the actual experience being designed, rather than deliverables.

Josh Seiden

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