PERSPECTIVES is a forum where I write about my professional experiences, opinions and interests. Most everything here is in some way connected to the broad and ever evolving realms of Design and Product Development.
Here I solidify and strengthen my own experiences and learnings, writing and offering commentary fully unique and opinionated...These are my perspectives. I hope that as I experience, learn and write, I can also inspire you in some way...and if nothing else, at least stimulate interesting conversation.
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I've recently lead a product build for an app, now available on the iPad store, my organization is using to support the distribution and consumption of a relatively new service offering. This was an MVP build. If you are familiar with agile development or other user-centric iterative processes, you will know that "MVP" stands for "Minimal Viable Product."
Last night, brandh@ckers put together a panel to discuss, albeit at a very high level, the design thinking methodology. It’s a rich topic with a lot of opportunity to delve into its many aspects much further- I suggest a Meetup dedicated solely to the methodology (in NYC) – But definitely a good top level discussion. The panel included representatives from the likes of Parsons and Stanford’s d.school (where all of this came about).
Read MoreRight off the heels of the Lean Startup Machine NYC weekend, I participated in last night’s Agile Experience Design Meetup where the topic/workshop involved running through how to test an ACTAUL user problem through forming a super low functioning, but TESTABLE MVP. LSM began its focus at point 0 in the process where we needed to validate who the customer is, if the customer actually has a problem and what the actual problem is. Last night we came into it assuming that there is a user that does have a problem. Unique to a lot of Meetups I’ve been to, we spent some time running through the high level process in workshop form to get us thinking along the build, measure, learn feedback loop. Some of the thinking is counterintuitive to how people may want to think (jumping into solutions without thoroughly measuring and learning…) so the exercise was helpful.
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