I was fortunate to spend most of the day yesterday at Lean UX NYC listening to a great slate of speakers open a 3-day event devoted to the topic. I'm pleased to see so much interest in this topic, and so many speakers with so much to say. Read more →
Let me make this easy for you: If you're building a static website, you want to build it with Middleman, and you want to deploy it to Github Pages. To dive in right now, head over to Middleman's Getting Started page and walk through the docs. Read more →
Podcast Listen to Carin Meier and Jim Weirich discuss flying drones under programmatic control with Clojure and Ruby, the perils of flying too close to walls, and flying with goals and beliefs. Read more →
Neo Innovation, a web development and product design firm, has created an investment fund targeting startups that demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the “Lean Startup” principles. Read the full article here Read more →
I fear a general misconception out there that you can validate a new digital product in just a few weeks. A single MVP will rarely deliver a binary answer as to whether something is awesome or terrible. Read more →
This article originally appeared in the February 2013 version of Test Magazine. In December last year, around 3,000 programmers in 160 cities around the world gave up their Saturday to write code - code they deliberately threw away. Read more →
Innovation fails until it succeeds and, if you are running a corporate innovation team, you have to let that process happen. Read more →
Want to learn the Lean UX cycle? Melissa and Christina will be leading an afternoon workshop at Lean Day: UX, March 1, 2013 in NYC. Get tickets now. As much as it is a process, Lean UX is also a way of approaching product design and development. Read more →
Farrah Bostic is one of the 9 amazing people who will be speaking at Lean Day: UX on March 1st, 2013 in NYC. Get your tickets here. Read more →
Lean is all about speeding up cycle times, reducing waste, compressing the hunt for product-market fit. So at face value it seems like it should be all about going fast fast fast. Read more →
