The Problem with "Iterations"
I've been working closely with Pivotal Labs over the past month. Each week I get together with designers and management to map out how design works in this cathedral of XP-flavored agile. It was...
View ArticleWhat is Lean UX?
Here's my definition Lean User Experience is a cross-functional, principle-driven process characterized by rituals that predispose teams to high-quality, high-velocity user experience outcomes. I also...
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Persona Cheat Sheet
I prepared this for the LUXi intensive this weekend. Thought it might be useful here, too... Persona_Cheat_Sheet.pdf Download this file Overview A persona is a narrative that describes the person your...
View ArticleTips for "Getting Out of the Building"
This weekend, we flew out the killer NY team, Lane Halley and Josh Seiden to help us lead a weekend workshop on Lean UX. We asked lane to put together a one-page guide to "getting out of the...
View ArticleOnly 2 spots left for LUXr-SF January Session
A quick note to let you know that if you're thinking about signing up for the January session of LUXr San Francisco, you should jump on it. We opened registration to the public on Monday, and have...
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Breakthrough Defining
According to the Survey.io results after last weekend's workshop, our core value prop is... Permalink
View ArticleNetflix A/B testing insights
Nice post on quora (hattip @peterme) on how Netflix approaches a/b testing. Something there for all of us to learn. "It keeps us humble." Permalink
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Bright and early today at Creative Mornings, I got to meet one of my design heroes -- @swissmiss, Lisa Roth Eisenberg! Permalink
View ArticleLUXr + Cooper + Change.org = 2 days of awesome
We're super thrilled to announce that LUXr has partnered with Cooper to provide a 2-day lean user experience intensive for UX Professionals. Why Cooper? Because (1) they're leaders in the field of...
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Slides from "LUXi for Designers"
Last week Tim McCoy from Cooper and I did a 2-day workshop that was attended by designers from Adaptive Path, HOT studio, Cooper, Stanford's d.School, 500 Startups, BJ Fogg's Persuasive Technology...
View Article10 Questions and Answers about Lean User Experience
By Josh Seiden, One-half of the LUXr NYC team Recently, thanks to my friend Janice Fraser, I’ve had the good fortune of being exposed to the Lean Startup movement. I’ve been thinking and writing and...
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Components of Enjoyment
Today's awesome find: Sketchnotes from FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi. Posted on Flickr by Eva-Lotta Lamm. Permalink
View ArticleBeyond Gamification
Super huge thanks to Amy Jo Kim, who came to talk with the SF LUXr teams about "gamification", and what comes after. Her eye-opening talk, deconstructed the gamification hype and provided a great...
View ArticleJeff Gothelf on Lean UX (from SXSW)
I finally had a chance to look it over Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX slides from SXSW -- a great addition to the conversation. More like this please! Lean UX: Getting out of the deliverables business View...
View ArticleInterview with Cameron Koczon "How to hire a designer"
Smart startups know that design matters and aim to build a design-savvy culture from the very beginning. When it's time to hire someone with more specialized skills in design, where do you start? How...
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LUXr company TaskRabbit closes $5M round from Shasta
I've been working with Leah Busque and her team at Task Rabbit since August of last year. Their fantastic team has been a proving ground for many of the lean UX methods that form the core of LUXr....
View ArticlePhin on Design = !!!
Fantastic post by @phineasb this morning about the role of design in startups. This paragraph is one of the smartest pieces of writing on the subject that I've seen. At the core, design is an...
View ArticleLUXr Teams Close funding from Google, CRV, First Round
Congratulations to LUXr teams Astrid and MotherKnows on their recent funding announcements! From Xconomy: MotherKnows, a Menlo Park, CA-based startup building an online health record system for...
View ArticleOnly Hours Left! Get LUXr Freebies
Eric Ries' Lean Startup book comes out in less than a week, and I couldn't be more excited. To help him get the book widely distributed among entrepreneurs, we've partnered with Eric to offer a number...
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LUXr.co has moved! New look, more info, better foundation for growth
We're happy (and relieved!) to officially announce the relaunch of LUXr.co. Since the first generation of LUXr.co, we've been thoughtful to not "overbuild the site". Starting with only the minimum...
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