So much to know. So little time.
Let’s start with the basic resources.
Lean UX at Startup Lessons Learned (video)
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (book)
The Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development, Patrick Vlaskovits & Brant Cooper (book)
UX for Lean Startups, Janice Fraser (slides)
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common-sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition, Steve Krug (book)
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition), Kent Beck (book)
Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition), Robin Williams (book)
Strategy
The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steven Gary Blank (book)
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, Alexander Osterwalder (book)
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make
User Experience
The Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garrett (book)
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Robert Reimann (book)
The Art of Game Design, Jesse Schell (book)
Team Dynamics
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Esther Derby (book)
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, Sunni Brown (book)
Customer Research and Validation
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky (book)
User-Centered Agile Methods, Hugh Beyer (book)
Other Videos
MX 2011 | Janice Fraser | Crushing the Boulder: User Experience and the Lean Startup
Janice Fraser at the Hacker News Meetup, London
Janice Fraser at the Stanford Entrepreneur forum [Many]
- http://academicearth.org/lectures/choosing-your-partners
- http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1561
Materials & helpful things to use everyday
We believe in the power of blue 3M tape, Sharpies, and sticky notes.
Here is the full list of the stuff we lust after.
- Idea paint
- Whiteboard tables
- Full-size post-its
- Butcher paper
- Highlighters
- Drafting dots
- Sharpies
- Blue 3M tape
- Post-Its (contrasting colors such as pink, green, yellow, blue)