The term “lean UX” will be used in context with the SAMS UCD approach quite often.
Why lean UX for SAMS
The SAMS team has professional experience in all components of lean UX. UNPAD and CV Primary Indonesia can contribute with their Design Thinking experience as well as with knowledge in agile development. The same applies to the Ethiopian partner iceaddis. All partners have adapted the lean startup practice of rapid prototyping.
This opens up the opportunity to create a common understanding of the SAMS product development strategy very fast and use methods for research, prototyping and documentation that are already known and established.
Definition
A keyword used to describe an approach for human-centred design that is based on a combination of different approaches (agile development, design thinking, lean startup) and tries to integrate principles and methods for usability and user experience into agile development, thereby achieving economic advantages from a cost-benefit perspective.
( CPUX-UR – Curriculum (Version 1.3, June 2016))
Notes of CPUX-UR Curriculum (uxqb.org):
1. The user requirements engineer must know about Lean UX so as to be able to communicate with members of a Lean UX project in a professional way.
2. Agile development processes are the basis for Lean UX, as the iterative approach in teams and the realisation of small, well-defined packages makes it possible for small and quick tests to be regularly carried out. The results from tests are then directly used in the next iteration (called “sprint”) for the further development. See also SCRUM.
3. Design thinking is the basis for Lean UX, as it helps project members to incorporate the users’ perspective into the development process through its solution-oriented way of thinking based on an in-depth understanding of the problem context.
4. Lean startup is the basis for Lean UX, as it suggests that at first, everything is a hypothesis and consequently needs to be validated. The team learns through experiments about the user and the market. Failure is part of the learning process – not every hypothesis is validated, not every experiment provides the desired results.
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