UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design

I've read all the Lean Series, and from all the books I found this the most fun and easy to read.I'm not a designer, I'm a developer, that's why this is not the most important for me, but the first part of this book is precious, and the concept of Lean process is really well explained.In the other hand, If you're a designer and you want to work in a Lean environment you really should read this book, all your developers will appreciate.Also if you're a product manager and you don't know anymore how to explain your designer to keep things simple, and not to worry (yet) about showing 1000 kinds of blue for a button.If I have to add something to the book, I would love to see a design decision example using Lean Canvas, which I think is a great tool to define objectives whatever you're starting the startup or implementing a new feature, and I think designers can use it too, in a simplified way to define and document quickly every design decisions.

I enjoyed reading this book and learned a lot of critical knowledge about user research and design. It lays a solid foundation for my PM skillset.However, I do think the writing could be improved. Some sentences are not direct in explaining the key points. I couldn't grasp what the author was trying to convey even after reading several times. I had to look up explanations online.Despite this, I still recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn user experience research and design.One last note is that I'm okay with the personality (quite critical, oftentimes funny) the writing shows about the author. Most books are trying to be very diplomatic (nothing wrong with that), it's refreshing and fun to read a book that shows the author's personality a lot.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It explains UX design in the context of lean startups. It’s a great read for anyone, even if you don’t work at a startup. And it made me laugh out loud several times as I was reading. (I listen to Laura’s podcast, What is Wrong with UX, so I’m familiar with her sarcastic sense of humor.)Laura shows you how to validate hypotheses with UX tools like user research. She goes into detail about the different user research methods out there and when to use them.I’m glad Laura also explains an MVP. Contrary to popular belief, an MVP is not the s***tiest version of your product you can ship. An MVP is the smallest thing you can build to validate or invalidate a hypothesis.Laura uses funny stories and examples to illustrate her points. I appreciate her analogy “fixating on the cupholders.” Fixating on the cupholders is like building a car that doesn’t have any brakes, yet focusing on how to design the cup holders. This analogy refers to when teams channel time and money into building the wrong things, such as building low priority features.Laura talks about fixating on cupholders in the context of startups, but I’ve seen this happen outside of startups.I also appreciate Laura’s approach to new product ideas. Laura says, don’t try to come up with brilliant product ideas out of thin air. Instead, think about every product as a solution to somebody’s problem.This book is packed with great stuff for entrepreneurs and UX designers. Do yourself a favor and read it. :)

I really love this book because it consolidates the key principles of Lean and in an easy to understand way, and Its really helped me plan my projects better. You dont have to be an expert to understand it. I refer back to specific chapters a lot when I work though new projects.I think of the design and development process very differently now, after reading this. Especially in regards to metrics, and analytics, and deciding what i need to measure to determine my design decisions have actually improved my app. As I designers, I need to explain why ive changed the design and help show that its "better" than it was before and that people like it more. It also gave me tons of ideas how to test out new designs to see if they are truly better and result in more engagement. It relaly de-mystified many concepts for me. Its helped me ground all my decisions in reality and think more clearly about how to make design, schedule, and make requirements decisions.Its really useful for PMs, designers, and developers because all the concepts can be applied to all these roles in different ways. I can see the changes throughout my team after we all read this. So, I highly recommend it.

The writer’s style makes it very hard to enjoy the book. You’ll get at least one free aggression for readers for no reason. Things like “ you’re delusional “, “you snowflake”, “maybe you should think of changing careers”.The books content might be good for early beginners. But again the tone is quite unwelcoming.And each chapter could be summarized in a couple of paragraphs.Don’t know why this book is on The lean series.The tone is such so different from the others.

An excellent reference source for today's customer experience conscious professionals.

It is great for intermediate UX/UI designers. Has a lot of convincing information and also fun to read too!

This is a fantastic book filled with actionable advice, from a great writer. It's not only EXTREMELY useful for anyone interested in Lean UX and even UX in general. It's also a fun read thanks to Laura's great sense of humour.

This is 3rd Lean book that I have read on Lean, the first two being Lean Startup and Lean Analytics. I can vouch this is definitely one of the best books and strongly recommend to anyone who has an idea about solution to a problem and wants to convert that to a product. The book offers practical advice for validating all that you need towards building a product.The book starts by offering advice on how to conduct qualitative research on the idea to check if customers really need that and then moving on to landing pages to confirm the hypothesis and then to A/B testing to get statistically significant data on whether proposed changes increases certain metrics or not.Between the various ideas, the books talks about how to speed up things aka faster user research, faster design etc. emphasizing the "lean" concept of doing just enough and thus avoiding wastage.Other key takeaways for me were designing the test first, when to use qualitative vs quantitative tests, tips on creating various types of MVP including landing page, Wizard of Oz, Fake door test etc.