Design Frameworks

Lean UX is a technique used when working on projects where the Agile development method is used.

When development is rapid, there's not enough time to use traditional UX techniques. Fundamentally, all forms of UX aim to deliver a great user experience, but a Lean UX differs in the way you work on a project. It is less focused on deliverables and requires a greater level of collaboration within the team.

Lean UX isn't focused on detailed deliverables. Instead, it is focused on producing changes that improve the product in the present. In practice, you are replacing "requirements" with a "problem statement", leading to a set of assumptions that can result in a hypothesis. Assumptions are generated on a workshop basis.

It is understood that assumptions may not be correct and can change as better understanding develops. The team will prioritise assumptions by the risk they represent—the more severe the consequence, the higher the priority.

The hypotheses created in Lean UX are designed to test our assumptions.

A simple format to create your own hypotheses.

"We believe that [......] is essential for [.....]. This will achieve [....]. We will have demonstrated this when we can measure [.....]

• State the belief.
• Why it is important to you.
• Who it is important to.
• What you expect to achieve.
• What evidence you would need to collect to prove that your belief was correct.