by John Nicholson | Jun 14, 2017 | healthcare, lean startup, usability, user research
Challenge: Complex Medical App for Cancer Survivors The team at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City was worried. Supported by a grant from NIH, they’d been working for months on a new web app to 1) improve oral health and rehabilitation in oral...
by John Nicholson | Dec 6, 2013 | lean startup, usability
This morning I listened to Jared Spool interviewing Jeff Gothelf on Lean UX on the UIE Spoolcast. Jared does a nice job of probing into where Lean UX differs from traditional user research and where there’s overlap. I loved Jeff’s emphasis on forcing teams to state...
by John Nicholson | Oct 22, 2012 | lean startup, usability
Last week I spent a lot of frustrating hours wrestling with how to redo a product section of a client’s site to improve their search engine visibility. Brian, our SEO guru, had a vision for the section that I had big concerns about. We went back and forth a lot,...
by John Nicholson | Jan 28, 2012 | lean startup, marketade news
Lean Startup Machine recently featured an article by Karan on our LSM DC experience in its Success Stories section: “Keeping Our Wits Through Two Pivots”. Thanks LSM!
by Karan Gill | Nov 30, 2011 | lean startup, marketade news
John and I recently attended a Lean Startup Machine weekend bootcamp in DC. This was an opportunity to learn and apply Lean Startup principles to a real-world startup idea in a highly focused setting. There were about 60 attendees and over 15 mentors and speakers –...
by John Nicholson | Nov 22, 2011 | lean startup
Imagine that you wake up tomorrow with this great idea: a new web app that helps cost-conscious, time-strapped families put “food on the table.” People will sign up for the service on the Web or their phone, and select their favorite types of meals and...
