Sketchnotes from Preely UX talks Anders Toxboe – on the new tool Validation patterns

Testlab (now Preely) invited Anders Toxboe @toxboe (head of digital development at DR) to talk about using Lean Experimentation to build products this morning at their UX meetup @rainmakingloftcph. The event was in Danish but the slides in English, so my sketchnote of the talk is in Danglish.

Key takeways from the talk were that we have to validate already in the divergent stages of a process, and throughout the process in different ways, making experiments rather than building one big solutions. You should look at what questions you want answered and build the smallest experiment possible to challenge those questions. This is a notion which I have heard often – we all know testing early and often is good – but why does it not happen more?

Toxboe and the UIpattern team has created a tool that makes choosing between ways of validation more accessible. I am looking forward to get my hands on a deck of the ‘Validation Patterns’ cards for my growing tool collection. They are available for preorder here.