Test Driven Design at Balanced Team Conference, Sept 2011

TEST-DRIVEN DESIGN Balanced Team Conference September 25, 2011 Josh Seiden, @jseiden

Blog it! Josh Seiden @jseiden #leanUX www.luxr.co @luxrco #leanStartupwww.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 2 Share Alike 3.0 United States

9 Lean UX Principles1. Design + biz + development + ... = 1 product team.2. Externalize!3. Goal-driven and outcome-focused.4. Repeatable and routinized.5. Flow: think, make, check.6. Focus on solving the right problem.7. Generate many options & decide quickly what to pursue8. Recognize hypotheses & validate them9. Rapid cycles: think/make/check Research with users is the best source of informationwww.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 3 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Principle #8 Declare your assumptions...www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 4 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Principle #8 Declare your assumptions... A way to re-frame requirementswww.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 4 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Principle #8 Declare your assumptions... A way to re-frame requirements  Every decision you make about your offering is a design decision.www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 4 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Principle #8 Declare your assumptions... A way to re-frame requirements  Every decision you make about your offering is a design decision.  Every design decision is an hypothesis.www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 4 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Principle #8 Declare your assumptions... A way to re-frame requirements  Every decision you make about your offering is a design decision.  Every design decision is an hypothesis.  Declare your assumptions and test them.www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 4 Share Alike 3.0 United States

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Method: Declare your assumptionswww.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Declare your assumptionsWhat assumptions do you have?www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Declare your assumptionsWhat assumptions do you have?…about your customers?www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Declare your assumptionsWhat assumptions do you have?…about your customers?…that if proven false, will cause you to fail?www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

What assumptions are we making?  Who is the user? Who is the customer?  Where does our product ﬁt in their work or life?  What problems does our product solve?  When and how is our product used?  What features are important?  How should our product look and behave?www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 10 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Write the test ﬁrstWe believe that person type has trouble/need/desire doing problem/oppty. [that can be addressed by our offering.]We will know we have succeeded when qualitative and quantitative outcome. This will improve KPI.www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Minimum Viable Productwww.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Minimum Viable ProductWhat is the smallest thing we can make to testour hypothesis?www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Minimum Viable ProductWhat is the smallest thing we can make to testour hypothesis?The answer to this question is your MVP.www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

Method: Get out of the building  Identify who do you want to talk to and what you want to learn In other words, what assumptions will you test? Stay tuned for Lane’s talk...  Plan your interview themes as a team  Collect artifacts, debrief and share  Use your visits for multiple purposeswww.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden 13 Share Alike 3.0 United States

Want to attend a workshop? Tweet #LUXiNYC to @LUXrCo THANK YOU!www.luxr.co License: Creative Commons Attribution-www.slideshare.net/jseiden Share Alike 3.0 United States

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Test Driven Design at Balanced Team Conference, Sept 2011

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