The document is a presentation slide deck on using user experience (UX) design and lean approaches to product development. It discusses how UX is more than just user interface (UI), and involves understanding users, their needs, and how product features fit together. The slides advocate starting with UX techniques like user interviews and prototypes before writing code, to build the right product. They present UX as a mindset and process involving understanding the user story, building on a stack of user insights, and iterating based on learning. The final slides are about applying a UX design mindset and getting ready to implement approaches that will help make awesome products.

1. Lean + UX =
Awesome
Using UX & lean
approaches to +
make epic
progress
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2. TWEET!
Kate Rutter, Co-Founder & Principal
@katerutter
@luxrco
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6. UX ≠ UI
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7. Product
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8. UI
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9. UX = mmmmmm
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10. UX =
• a mindset
• focused on delivering value
• inspires the right kinds of ideas
• guides decisions
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13. UX = start points
Who is it for?
⤷ users
Why does it matter
to them?
⤷ needs &
goals
What can they do that ⤷
they couldn’t do before? uses
What features do they ⤷ features
need to do that?
How do those features ⤷ product,
fit together? brand &
voice
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14. dang. That’s a lot of stuff.
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15. UX = a simple stack
Who is it for?
⤷ users
Why does it matter
to them?
⤷ needs &
goals
What can they do that ⤷
they couldn’t do before? uses
What features do they ⤷ features
need to do that? UI goes
here
How do those features ⤷ ⤷
product,
fit together? brand &
voice
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16. UX = a simple stack
Users
I need...
Needs I want...
My goal is...
Vision &
values
Mary can...
Uses
Features
sketches,
prototypes,
pixels
Product
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17. UX + Lean = <3 BUILD
Customer Users LEARN
MEASURE
development I need...
or...user research Needs I want...
My goal is...
Vision &
values
Sketches & Mary can...
prototypes Uses
before UI. Before code.
Features
Experiments, sketches,
MVPs, Metrics prototypes,
pixels
and...usability testing
Product
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18. UX + Lean = <3 BUILD
Customer Users LEARN
MEASURE
development I need...
or...user research Needs I want...
My goal is...
Vision &
values
Sketches & Mary can...
prototypes Uses
before UI. Before code.
Features
Experiments, sketches,
MVPs, Metrics prototypes,
pixels
and...usability testing
Product
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19. UX = a clear story
users
needs &
goals
uses
features
product,
brand &
voice
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20. UX = a clear story
Meet Erika, a socially engaged college student.
Erika needs to feel closely connected with
friends near and far, every day.
With Facebook, Erika can share her latest
thoughts and see what her many friends are up to,
using status updates on her “wall”, messages,
comments and “likes”
in a way that’s universal, clean, consistent,
and fast.
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21. UX = a clear story
Meet Bob, a new startup entrepreneur.
Bob needs to feel confident that his product
design decisions really serve his customers.
With LUXr-in-a-box, Bob can learn to interview
customers and validate his assumptions,
using hands-on materials and online
video coaching
in a way that’s simple to complete, warm &
engaging, and fun.
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22. UX Design Mindset
➜ starts
• Ask important questions.
• How confident are you in
your answers?
➜ stack • Identifies gaps.
• Use it to stay focused.
➜ story
• Tells the story so your team
can rally to it.
• Use it to decide what “good” is.
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23. Get ready for roll-on
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24. Go be awesome.
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25. LUXr makes products that coach early-stage
entrepreneurs on effective practices to deliver products
that customers want, need and love to buy.
LUXr.co
3435 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, CA • 94110
The Juhl, 353 E. Bonneville Ave., Las Vegas, NV • 89101
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• Ed Lea: http://design.org/blog/difference-between-ux-and-ui-subtleties-explained-cereal
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