What is Lean UX?
Lean UX is an approach that integrates product development, design, and business and encourages ongoing improvement, frequent iteration, and validation. Lean UX is fundamentally about letting the design team’s work be guided by the confirmation of hypotheses. Hypotheses are important for the team to openly think and assume scenarios. This suggests that there are only assumptions here and that designers never base judgments on their intuition or preferences. Designers can come closer to exceptional user experiences more quickly by constructing, measuring, and learning. It is actually about “It should not be the statement you only workaround, it should be a problem statement which you believe can be true”.
Lean follows the process which includes the following steps:
- Ideate and build
- Measure and handover
- Analyse and lean
Core Principles of Lean UX:
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Progress = Outcomes, not just Output
- Dedicated Chunks
- Problem Focused Workforce
- Eliminating Waste
- Prioritize Task in Smaller Chunk
- Continuous and Iterative discovery
- GOOB
- Collaborative Understanding
- All for one and one for all
- Open to all
- Let Analysis SPEAK
- Growth with Learning
- Cherish failures
- Get out of deliverables
Now that we have looked into what both approaches are and the principles of both, Let’s look into what “Agile” and “Lean” have in common-Similarities of Agile and Lean.
Agile UX vs Lean UX: What’s the Difference
There has been confusion among most people about picking an approach from “Agile” and “Lean”. Especially when it comes to UX practitioners to adapt with either of these approaches. It is seen that Agile was initially just used for development and later UX has been added to the agile process, this makes the adaptation a bit tricky for the companies and sometimes it is just for the sake of it. To pick the best approach that suits your individual, team, and organizational level goals it is good to know about each of these approaches, their similarities, and differences to come to a better decision.