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Designing Small Is Harder than Designing Big

  • Agile, Design Process, Lean UX, Product Design, User Research, UX Design

Learn why the real design challenge of agile is not speed but learning to design smaller, one valuable slice at a time.

Article by Paivi Salminen
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Designing Small Is Harder than Designing Big
  • The article suggests that agile design is not about quick development but rather the more difficult discipline of designing smaller, resisting the temptation to map out complete systems, avoiding the snare of horizontal slicing, and inquiring into what the smallest iteration of an idea is that still provides real value to users.
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Lean UX vs. User-Centered Design

  • Agile UX, Design Process, Lean UX, Product Design, User-Centered Design, UX Research

Lean UX and User-Centered Design share the same heart — empathy for users — but differ in pace and practice. This piece shows how Lean UX turns UCD principles into a faster, data-driven approach for modern teams.

Article by Paivi Salminen
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Lean UX vs. User-Centered Design
  • The article explains that while both Lean UX and User-Centered Design focus on users, Lean UX adapts UCD principles for speed, collaboration, and rapid learning.
  • It argues that Lean UX evolves user-centered thinking into an agile, data-driven process that helps teams design the right thing faster.
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