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AN AGILE
METHOD FOR
USER EXPERIENCE
DESIGN
SUMMARY
3 INTRODUCTION
17 CONCLUSION
18 ABOUT MJV
INTRODUCTION
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of developing products and businesses based on validated
learning, receiving feedback from clients quickly and frequently.
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UNDERSTANDING
THE LEAN STARTUP:
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
In the book that coined the term Lean Startup (of the same
name), Eric Ries highlights some fundamental principles of this
method:
You should avoid focus groups and see how the real clients
behave; delivering a minimum viable product (MVP) to real
clients early on and quickly learn by observing what they do,
how they react and what they say.
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Permanent Lean
The word lean refers to the speed and agility and not to cost
reductions, as some people usually interpret it (despite the
method condoning and helping loss reduction).
1. Customer Development
Continuous process of consumer interaction that aims at testing
and validating hypothesis about clients, product and market,
encompassing quantitative and qualitative research. In other words,
one needs to hear the client using empathy and putting yourself
in his shoes to understand him to create something he actually
wants. The best way to do that is to ask him what his demands are
and then to create the product or service based on that.
2. Agile Development
Applying methodologies like UX and Scrum (non-traditional
management and software development methods, that take into
account the individuals and can respond to change), that help
manage projects in the day to day, increasing the learning speed
through client/user feedback.
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THE BENEFITS OF LEAN STARTUP
The Lean Startup method is known for having three main
benefits. First, it allows businesspeople to have full control
over their business. That is because it teaches them how to
create new business models and products without external
financing (which usually implies handing over control of a
business to an investor).
Formulating Hypotheses
In order to develop a successful business model or product,
the entrepreneur must make sure they are offering an effective
solution to a specific consumer group. A well formulated
hypothesis must encompass an innovative or faster idea, or a
cheaper solution in comparison to other available options.
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solutions to those problems; who have come up with their
own solutions; and who have purchasing power to by a better
solution when they find it.
Market Attractiveness
After validating a hypothesis, the entrepreneur must explore
its market attractiveness, studying the competition, the size of
the market and the ability of the company to manufacture the
solution. A full analysis of these three elements will confirm if a
particular innovation should or not be developed.
Develop a prototype
After consumers have validated a specific solution together
with its set of resources, the businesspeople can develop the
prototype. The best prototype is a virtual model, which allows
companies to discover the most adequate and accessible
technologies to produce the final product or service.
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USER EXPERIENCE AND
LEAN UX: WHY KEEP THE
FOCUS ON THE USERS
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NOW, WHAT IS LEAN UX AFTER ALL?
Lean UX is an extremely useful technique when working on
agile development projects. It is UX done in a much more agile
way, because it is lean. Traditional user experience techniques
oftentimes do not work when the development is done in quick
bursts there is not enough time. Essentially the Lean UX and
other forms of UX have the same objective in mind: to provide a
great experience for the user.
1. Multifunctional teams
Bringing together software engineers, product managers,
interaction designers, visual designers, content managers,
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5. Removing wastefulness
One of the main dogmas of Lean Manufacturing is the
removal of everything that does not lead to the end goal.
In Lean UX, the end goal is to improve results, and what
doesnt contribute to that is considered a waste, and should
be removed from the teams processes. The resources are
limited; therefore, the more waste the team can do away with,
the faster it will move.
6. Less is more
Only the design that is necessary to move the team forward,
and avoiding creating a major inventory of untested and not
implemented ideas.
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entire team. Finally, as the team learns together, the need for
documentation and alignment meetings are reduced.
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SYNERGY BETWEEN LEAN STARTUP
AND USER EXPERIENCE THROUGH DESIGN THINKING
As we have seen, Lean UX is strongly influenced by Lean Startup.
The context of uncertainty (doubts about what people want, if they
will buy, how it should look and what the product needs to have),
is brought to Lean UX projects. The idea is to understand how
soon users will actually buy and use the product.
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BOOK DESIGN THINKING UNDERSTAND HOW THE
METHOD CAN BRING INNOVATION TO BUSINESSES.
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CASE STUDY:
DEVELOPING AN
APP FOR RETAIL
RESULTS
By the end of this process, the project team had on hand a
set of screens ready to be developed. These screens reflect
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inputs from the field and the opinion of all departments
involved in the project. Aside from the set of screens with the
functionalities, a set of help screens was also developed to
help the interaction with the builders. After the first use, they
are disables but can still be consulted.
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CONCLUSION
As we have seen, the Lean UX has as its main benefit its fast
application and immediate results. However, there are still a lot
of companies that do not work in an agile environment for the
development of software and products.
Maybe the best thing to do when dealing with methods like Lean
UX, Design Thinking and agile methods is looking for specialized
consultancy. Each case is different and needs to be worked on in
the most careful and detailed way possible and this is a job for
specialists with the necessary background.
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ABOUT MJV
Since 1997, MJV Technology & Innovation has worked with some of
the biggest companies in the world in their business challenges. With
offices in Europe, United States and Latin America, the consultancy
firm today relies on a multidisciplinary team of over 300 professionals.
YSMAR VIANNA
Chairman
yvianna@mjvinnovation.com
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