Lean UX isn’t about cutting corners, building on the cheap, low quality results, doing things quickly or not providing deliverables. It’s an incremental team approach to product discovery and delivery that's already used successfully at companies of all sizes — from startups to IBM. Lean UX sits at the intersection of Lean Startup & User Experience. We explode some of the myths and demonstrate how to apply Lean UX principles to the way your products are designed and built.

1. Mythbusting Lean UX
UX Scotland, June 2014, #uxscot
Adrian Howard (@adrianh)

2. 1993

3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Donald_Norman_at_AWF05.jpg

4. — Meeting notes made by Tom Erickson, 1993
Don also described and solicited
discussion on, the “User Interface [sic]
Architect's office” (hereafter UEA).

5. I invented the term because I thought Human
Interface and usability were too narrow: I
wanted to cover all aspects of the person's
experience with a system, including industrial
design, graphics, the interface, the physical
interaction, and the manual.
— Don Norman

6. 2001

7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbird,_Utah#mediaviewer/File:May_28_2006_Snowbird_UT_USA.jpg

8. http://agilemanifesto.org/

9. 2006

10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Blank.jpg

11. — Steve Blank
A startup is not a smaller
version of a large company

12. A startup is a temporary
organization designed to
search for a repeatable and
scalable business model.
— Steve Blank

13. A startup is a temporary
organization designed to
search for a repeatable and
scalable business model.
— Steve Blank

14. From “The Startup Owner's Manual” by Steve Blank

15. 2008

16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Ries2.jpg

17. Lean Startup
Customer Development + Agile + Lean
buildlearn
measure
productdata
ideas

18. http://xkcd.com/54/

19. 2010

20. — Janice Fraser
The question we have to solve for is not
“What does Lean User Experience mean?”
The question is “In a lean environment,
how can we make great user experiences?

21. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byuanimation_cyclops.jpg

22. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_skeleton_-Booth_Museum,_Brighton_and_Hove,_East_Sussex,_England-20Oct2011.jpg

23. Lean Startup
Customer Development + Agile + Lean
buildlearn
measure
productdata
ideas

24. Lean Startup
Customer Development + Agile + Lean
buildlearn
measure
productdata
ideas

25. Lean: offering little reward,
substance, or nourishment;
meagre

26. 1948-1975

27. Toyota Production System

28. Designing out:
• muri (overburden)
• mura (inconsistency)
• muda (waste)

29. Kinds of muda:
1. Over production
2. Waiting
3. Transportation
4. Processing
5. Stock at hand
6. Movement
7. Making defective products

30. Kaizen
Continual Improvement

31. TPS begat
Lean Production
begat Lean Thinking
begat Lean …

32. Lean: efficient and with no
wastage

33. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_skeleton_-Booth_Museum,_Brighton_and_Hove,_East_Sussex,_England-20Oct2011.jpg
BUSTED

34. http://www.consumocolaborativo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/wikispeed_3_months.jpg

35. http://www.consumocolaborativo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/wikispeed_3_months.jpg

36. http://wikispeed.org/car/

37. http://wikispeed.org/car/

38. https://twitter.com/guspower/status/448487628107575296/photo/1

39. http://www.consumocolaborativo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/wikispeed_3_months.jpg
BUSTED

40. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Suns_and_Book_Burning_(XCIIv).jpg

41. — Jeff Gothelf
“Getting out of the
deliverables business”

42. — Jeff Gothelf
“Getting out of the
deliverables business”

43. — Jeff Gothelf
“Getting out of the
deliverables business”

44. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Architect.png

45. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lloyd%27s_building_from_Leadenhall_Street.jpg

46. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lloyd%27s_building_from_Leadenhall_Street.jpg
“It's the nearest thing I
could imagine to being, to
working on a medieval
cathedral where there is this
broad idea of principles, but
then the nature of the fabric
of it was still being designed
as it was being constructed.”
— Graham Stirk, Architect

47. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Suns_and_Book_Burning_(XCIIv).jpg
BUSTED

48. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coors_brewery_conveyors.jpg

49. Lean Startup
Customer Development + Agile + Lean
buildlearn
measure
productdata
ideas

50. http://i.imgur.com/Mi4UJKJ.jpg

51. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coors_brewery_conveyors.jpg
BUSTED

52. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byuanimation_cyclops.jpg

53. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byuanimation_cyclops.jpg
BUSTED

54. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byuanimation_cyclops.jpg
Thank you
adrianh@quietstars.com