Lean Startup Circle Boston October Meetup

October Lean Workshop

6:30pm - Early Bird Presentation: Customer Development 101

For those new to the concepts of Customer Development and The Lean Startup, Matthew Mamet, co-organizer of the LSC Boston Meetup and Product Manager at Alleyoop.com will talk about the basics of customer development and lean startups at 6:30pm. Come to listen to John speak, or hang out and network over pizza!

7:00pm - Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders.com

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Traditionally UX Design has been a deliverables practice. Wireframes, sitemaps, etc defined the practice of UX Design (IA, IxD, UI Design etc). While this work has helped define what a UX Designer does and their value, it has also put designers in the deliverables business – measured & compensated for the quality of their deliverables (instead of the success of the experiences they design). Enter Lean UX - the practice of bringing the experience to light faster, with less emphasis on deliverables and greater focus on the actual experience being designed.

Jeff Gothelf is a Lean UX advocate, Agile practitioner, interaction designer, user experience team leader, blogger, public speaker , author and design/product thinker. Jeff is currently the Director of User Experience at TheLadders.com in NYC where he lead a team of interaction designers, visual designers and copywriters in pursuit of reinventing the online jobs industry.