Agile- Lean UX

Wednesday night i had the opportunity to attend my second event through the CIDD (the Chicago Interactive Design & Development NOT the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics) meetup group, and just like expected, it was a great presentation.

Brad Gernstein, from the newly formed ThoughtMatrix Chicago office, was there to speak about What's Next for UX. The talk gave a good overview on the Lean UX approach which consists of the Lean Start-Up movement and Lean Agile development theories (everyone is on diet these days).

My simple understanding on this somewhat newly adopted process is that it essentially requires keeping teams engaged by having them work in a more collaborative environment, which usually means being able to generate faster working prototypes and results, and isn't that everyone's ultimate goal?

Other topics covered included the pros and cons on native apps versus mobile web apps and html5's role.
Gernstein also noted some sweet resources for prototyping like Axure and Protoshare.

You can check out the full presentation here.