BIAS!™ A Game for Product Designers & Strategists
Thanks to a slew of new books and articles that have come out in recent years, many professionals today realize how cognitive biases can distort their ability to make decisions. As an example of the...
View ArticleSimon Marcus Presents “Concierge & Pitch MVP”
This is the presentation for the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge Edition / Lean Startup machine discussing “Concierge and Pitch MVP.” Concierge & Pitch MVP from Will Evans
View ArticleCustomer Research & Persona Development
This is my presentation at the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge Edition / Lean Startup Machine weekend. This provides and overview of LeanUX Customer Research, Persona Development, and Cognitive Biases....
View ArticleTLC Labs Hosts LeanUX NYC – April 2013
TLC Labs and Lean Startup Machine have partnered with NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation as well as Cyrus Innovation to create a three and a half day, curated conference...
View ArticleJoin TLC Labs at the Agile Experience Design Meetup, Jan 21 2013
In this talk, Will Evans will provide an introduction to complexity science and how it can be used for problem space exploration by strategists and product teams. If you’re interested in discovering...
View ArticleHow to build a ‘good enough’ corporate site in 3 weeks
If Dante had written the Inferno in the early days of the 21st century, Satan would have been found wallowing in the 9th circle, spearheading a corporate website redesign. There is perhaps no more...
View ArticleAre there any “Lean Truths”?
I’ve been working for a while now, on and off, on a framework for what I’ve been calling the “lean doctrine.” I have an ethically-grounded expectation that if a bunch of us are willing to tell other...
View ArticleDesign Ethnography for Lean Teams by Will Evans
Design Ethnography for Lean Teams from Will Evans “What people say is not what people do” – CheskinThere has been a lot of hot air about “getting out of the building”, and “just go talk to customers”,...
View ArticleExperimentation & Innovation in Libraries: What We Can Learn from Lean Startups
Experimentation and Innovation in Libraries: What We Can Learn from Lean Startups by Simon Marcus & Will Evans Few industries face the kind of disruption that the library industry faces today with...
View ArticleIntroduction to Kanban for Creative Agencies
Introduction to Kanban for Creative Agencies from Will Evans This is an introduction to Kanban. Creative agencies, like most organizations that do knowledge work, are defined by the projects they...
View ArticleWill Evans Teaches “Lean Startup Summer Boot Camp” @ NYU
NYU Entrepreneurs Test Their Ideas at Stern’s Lean Startup Summer Boot Camp NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently hosted a new workshop series entitled, “Lean Startup...
View ArticleAnnouncing Tilt Magazine
TLC Labs’ next experiment: Tilt Magazine, a digital quarterly that will bring together the best content from the Lean systems, Lean Startup, and Lean UX communities. Every day, great ideas that are...
View ArticleThe “Lean Strategy + Design” Book List
(Covering Lean systems, design, management, strategy, and innovation. Not fearing a good dose of discussion around ideas, theories, and how managers learn and try new things in their organization to...
View ArticleThe Management Interaction Gap
There are many explanations of what is “wrong” with management these days… many of them may be right, but I think my model of the problem has a pretty good chance of explaining a huge amount of waste...
View ArticleExperimentation and Innovation in Libraries: From Design Thinking to LeanUX
Experimentation and Innovation in Libraries: From Design Thinking to LeanUX from Will Evans Few industries face the kind of disruption that the library industry faces today with e-resources, the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Lean UX Branding
“Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.” – David Ogilvy Lean UX Branding from Will Evans A brand is a system of signs and symbols...
View ArticleShades of Grey: Thoughts on Sketching
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your...
View ArticleLean UX & Design Thinking: 2 Talks
These are two recent talks that I presented with my friend Thomas Wendt at the New York State IT Innovation Summit in Troy, New York. Usually, I’ve been integrating both Design Thinking and Lean UX /...
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