May Lean UX Meetup

Part 1: Lean UX in an Agency Environment (Jef Bekes)

Much of the thought around Lean UX focuses on design groups within product organizations (startups and enterprises). What happens when you try to use Lean design methodologies inside of an agency?

 

Jef Bekes

Jef is currently Creative Director of the User Experience Design group at Solution Set. He has 15+ years of experience as a design... [read more]

Part 1: Lean UX in an Agency Environment (Jef Bekes)

Much of the thought around Lean UX focuses on design groups within product organizations (startups and enterprises). What happens when you try to use Lean design methodologies inside of an agency?

 

Jef Bekes

Jef is currently Creative Director of the User Experience Design group at Solution Set. He has 15+ years of experience as a design practitioner and manager in the interactive space. He was previously VP of User Experience at ThoughtWorks, where he led a global team of product designers. Jef also spent 4 years as Creative Director and Head of User Experience at Splunk, where he was responsible for product design, web design, and branding.

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Part 2: Design Charette (Yerdle)

Adam Werbach and Andy Ruben from Yerdle will give a quick overview of their new startup and introduce a design problem as the focal point of the charette exercise.

About Yerdle

Today you can borrow a car or rent an extra room but there is no widely-available way to share items among a circle of friends. Enter yerdle, a new California for benefit corporation in the social shopping space. yerdle will make it as easy to share with friends as it is to buy new on Amazon.  Sharing is the new shopping.

Adam Werbach

Elected president of the Sierra Club when he was 23, Adam went on to found a number of mission driven companies, most recently selling Act Now to the Publicis Groupe and building the global sustainability practice for marketing giant Saatchi & Saatchi. He was inducted to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement, which he thinks is funny.

Andy Ruben

Andy Ruben left his executive role at Walmart to pursue his dream of building the next generation of retail.  An engineer with a business degree, Andy was a founding member of Ernst & Young’s strategy practice.  He was hired by Walmart to work with the Board of Directors and build a strategy department for Walmart.  He led a number of transformational efforts over his 10 year tenure, including launching Walmart’s heralded sustainability effort, re-imagining Walmart’s $20 Billion private brands business, and integrating online commerce and stores.

 

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