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Ux Strategy Levy

A practical guide for product makers to devise innovative digital solutions by integrating business strategy with validated user research, competitive analysis, and frictionless UX design.

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What it’s about

In a world littered with failed apps and websites, "UX Strategy" provides a crucial framework to ensure you build products people actually want. Author Jaime Levy demolishes the myth that strategy is a mysterious art for MBAs, offering a hands-on, empirical process for anyone on a product team—from designers to entrepreneurs. The book breaks down UX strategy into four core tenets: Business Strategy, Value Innovation, Validated User Research, and Frictionless UX. Through personal anecdotes, real-world case studies, and a complimentary toolkit, Levy guides you through a step-by-step process of defining and validating your value proposition, analyzing the competition to find your unique edge, prototyping to test your riskiest assumptions, and designing for customer conversion. It’s an essential manual for de-risking product development and turning your vision into a sustainable, market-winning reality.

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Who it’s for
A product maker (designer, manager, entrepreneur, or innovator) who wants to create successful, innovative digital products that customers love and that achieve business goals, but feels stuck in a cycle of building things based on assumptions.
The problem
They are part of teams that build products without a clear, validated strategy, leading to wasted time, money, and effort on features or entire products that ultimately fail in the marketplace. They feel frustrated, like a 'cog in the wheel' executing on deliverables without strategic input. They are uncertain if their work will have an impact and fear their great ideas will never see the light of day.
The plan
  1. Define an initial Value Proposition based on your assumptions about a customer and their problem.
  2. Conduct guerrilla Customer Discovery and Competitive Analysis to validate your assumptions and find a market opportunity.
  3. Storyboard your Value Innovation to envision the key features and frictionless user experience.
  4. Create Rapid Prototypes to run experiments, test your hypotheses, and gather feedback from real users.
  5. Design for Conversion by running online experiments to optimize your marketing and product funnels.
The payoff
You become a confident and effective product strategist. · You lead teams to build innovative products that customers love and that achieve business success. · You have a greater strategic impact, advance your career, and avoid the pain of building products that fail.

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