What is Lean UX
                     What is Lean UX?
Insights on its Principles
  Meaning
• It’s a combination of Lean Startup & Agile Development
• It means the practice of bringing together a product to light faster, in a 
collaborative, cross-functional way. 
• As in Scrum practice, we work in the continuous feedback loop of iterations 
via customers feedback at the end of every sprint review cycle. 
• Ultimately it will helps to build a product design organization that is more 
collaborative, more cross-functional, and a better fit for today’s Agile reality. 
Principles of Lean UX 
A. Team Organisation B. Guide Culture
1. Cross-functional team 1. Moving from doubt to 
2. Small, dedicated & collocated  certainty 
3. Self-sufficient & empowered  2. Outcomes, not output 
4. Problem-focused team 3. Removing waste 
4. Shared understanding 
5. No rock stars, gurus, or ninjas 
6. Permission to fail 
A. Team Organisation
1. Cross-functional team
• Its Similar to Agile Methodology
• It’s a combination of different roles to create your products like developers, 
managers, designers, content writers, marketing, QA, and many more, who 
make up a part of LEAN UX teams.
• Basically, it’s collaboration & continuous involvement or communication 
between each other and this goes on from day one of the project until the end 
of the engagement.
Purpose 
• To avoid pit holes in the process.
• LEAN UX & Agile will help the team to share information informally, which creates 
collaboration earlier in the process & drives higher team efficiency.
• For Example, Projects passes in way like 
Project Manager  Design Team  Developer Team  QA  Final Out Come 
(Without any feedback iteration or market analysis)
Eventually, project outcomes will differ from what a customer or end-user actually 
needs.
A. Team Organisation 
2. Small, dedicated & collocated 
• Small team – Maximum 10 members.
• All dedicated to only one project
• Working at same location
Benefits 
• Communication 
• Focus - keeps team members focused on the same priorities all the 
time and eliminates dependencies on other teams
• Camaraderie
• Help the team track status, changes, and new learning
• allows the relationship to grow among team members
A. Team Organisation 
3. Self-sufficient & empowered 
• No external dependencies
• Give all the capabilities or freedom to operate to your team
• Give enough tools to create and release software/products
• Give openness & courage to them to figure out how to solve 
the problems
Result 
• Increases efficiency, freedom & learning curve amplifies
•  Team can interact with customers directly in order to get 
the freedom they need to create effective solutions.
A. Team Organisation 
4. Problem focused team 
• Team has been given a problem related to business, rather 
than a set of features to create, which is also one of the core 
values of the Agile manifesto and LEAN UX
Benefits 
• We can unleash potential of team for problem-solving by giving them 
actual business problems.
• Team will interact with each other and come up with better MVP 
solutions for the product
• Helpful for the team to stay on the same page and be aware of the 
project status and feature
B. Guide Culture
1. Moving from doubt to certainty
• In Lean UX everything is assumption until we prove it 
• We gain clarity as we work
• Sometimes assumptions are easy to spot and sometimes its very 
difficult and cost a lot of time and efforts on bad assumptions.
• In conclusion, by validating assumptions we can make complex 
software development process a bit easy.
B. Guide Culture
2. Outcomes matters, not output
• Outputs – Features & Services
• Main goal – To achieve outcome 
• Outcome – Create a meaningful and measurable change in 
customer behavior.
• Lean UX is trying to achieve this outcome and measures its 
progress.
B. Guide Culture
3. Removing waste
• Main principle of Lean Manufacturing
• It removes anything that does not contribute to goal.
• Value creation and waste removal technique can help 
the team to keep their laser focus where it belongs.
B. Guide Culture
4. Shared Understanding 
• It builds over time as the team works together
• it reduces the team’s dependencies on second-hand reports 
and detailed documents to continue its work. 
B. Guide Culture
5. No Rock starts, Gurus or Ninjas
• It emphasise on equal contribution in team
• No Stars or star performers 
• Lean UX seeks team cohesion and collaboration
B. Guide Culture
5. Permission to Fail
• Allows new ideas to get the solution.
• And that’s ok if it fails 
• So team has a healthy environment to experiment with their 
ideas.
Conclusion
• It is favourable for any organisation to adopt this Lean UX 
techniques.
• It will give fruitful results and give the best solutions for not 
only the team but the business problem as well.
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