Writing kick-ass hypotheses: Lean UX Meetup, Las Vegas : July

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The Lean UX Meetup in Las Vegas is gaining momentum. This is the deck for the July meetup. It's got tips for writing a good hypothesis and a few templates to use in the process. In the Vegas area? Love lean and/or UX? Join the meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Lean-UX-Las-Vegas/

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Writing kick-ass
hypotheses
@ RASTER MEDIA • JULY 10, 2013
Lean UX
Vegas Style

LUXR.CO JULY 2013
Needs
1. I need...
2. I want...
3. My goal is...
Uses
Mary can...
Features
Users
Sketches,
prototypes,
wireframes,
pixels
Your vision & ideas go here
why
what
how
Interfaces & ﬂows
Prototypes
User stories
This Week
UX Stack BUILD
MEASURE
LEARN

LUXR.CO JULY 2013
Lean Learning in 4 parts
The belief you
want to test.
The testable
“thing.”
An indicator of the
outcome.
“We believe people like [customer
type] have a need for (or problem
doing) [need/action/behavior].”
“The smallest thing we can do to
prove that need is [experiment].”
“We will know we have succeeded
when [quantitative/measurable outcome]
or [qualitative/observable outcome].”
Hypothesis
Experiment
Evidence
Something accepted
as true without proof.
“People need our product.”Assumption
Sounds like...Deﬁnition...

LUXR.CO JULY 2013
A good hypothesis is...
✓ Simple & clear
✓ Written as a statement
✓ Establishes
• participants (who)
• variables (whatʼs involved)
• prediction of an outcome (evidence)
✓ Testable

LUXR.CO JULY 2013
What assumptions about your customers
do you have that, if you are wrong,
your product will fail?
Write down 3.
{Hands-on}

$LUXR.CO JULY 2013 {Hands-on} State the assumption as a hypothesis. we believe that ________________ Experiment template: http://slideshare.com/luxrco$

LUXR.CO JULY 2013
{back at the ofﬁce}
Iterate through ideas as you
gather evidence
http://leanstartupmachine.com/validationboard/
WSD:
Write stuff down.
Validate with intent.
AFAP:
As fast as possible.

http://luxr.co @luxrco © 2013
The Molecule
people
problem solution
have
addresses
use
Company or team name date
/ /

http://luxr.co @luxrco © 2013
Assumptions
1
Riskiest
Assumption
Testingnow
Later
Team name date
/ /
2 3
Nextup

http://luxr.co @luxrco © 2013
Experiment
We believe that...
We will do/make...
We will know the hypothesis is valid if by we get...
Hypothesis
date
quantitative
measurable outcomes
TestEvidence
qualitative
observable outcome
Team name date
/ /

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