Design & UX

Lean UX

Collaborative, experiment-driven UX design

Practice collaborative, experiment-driven UX design using Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden's Lean UX methodology. This skill equips your AI agent with hypothesis-driven design, cross-functional collaboration techniques, and MVPs for validating UX decisions with real users.

Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden

Lean UX

by Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden

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Key Concepts

What your agent learns

Hypothesis-Driven Design

Frame design decisions as hypotheses: "We believe [this change] will result in [this outcome]. We'll know we're right when [this metric changes]."

Outcomes over Outputs

Focus on changing customer behavior (outcomes), not shipping features (outputs). Measure success by impact, not delivery.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Break down silos between design, engineering, and product. Co-create solutions with shared understanding.

Design Studio Method

Run collaborative sketching sessions where the whole team generates and critiques ideas together.

Minimum Viable Product

Design the smallest experiment that tests your riskiest assumption — a landing page, Wizard of Oz test, or concierge MVP.

About the Author

Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden

Lean UX pioneers, bestselling authors and product coaches

Jeff Gothelf is an organizational designer and author who helps teams build better products through Lean and Agile principles. Josh Seiden is a designer and product leader who co-created the Lean UX methodology and pioneered outcome-based design practices.

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Example Prompts

Try these with the skill installed

Frame this feature idea as a Lean UX hypothesis with measurable outcomes using lean-ux skill

Product design

Plan a design studio session for our cross-functional team using lean-ux skill

Collaboration

Design a minimum viable experiment to test our onboarding redesign using lean-ux skill

Experimentation

Shift our team from output-based to outcome-based success metrics using lean-ux skill

Team process
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