Part II. Process
About Part II
In the previous part, we looked at the ideas behind Lean UX—the principles that drive the work. In this section, we’ll get very practical and describe in detail the process of doing Lean UX.
We’ve organized this section around a new tool that we’ve been using for the last few years: the Lean UX Canvas. The Lean UX Canvas is a way to orchestrate your Lean UX process. It offers a single-page “at-a-glance” way of framing your work on a feature, an epic or initiative, or even an entire product.
This single-page tool collects all of the key tools, methods, processes, and techniques of Lean UX into a single document with a unified structure. It’s a tool that you can use to get from the earliest part of the design process—your initial problem framing—through design, prototyping, and research.
Although you don’t have to use the canvas to do Lean UX, we’ve found that the canvas is a great way to explain the process, so we’ve chosen to present the Lean UX process to you by using the canvas.
The Lean UX Canvas
Chapter 4, “The Lean UX Canvas”, provides an overview of the Lean UX Canvas. You’ll learn why Lean UX is skeptical of requirements, why it embraces assumptions instead, and how the Lean UX Canvas is a vehicle that you can use to capture and test your assumptions. This chapter also introduces some ideas about facilitating the process of working with the canvas.
Chapter 5, “Box 1: Business Problem”, covers the technique you’ll use to define the problem ...
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