Minimum Viable User EXperience: A Framework for Supporting Product Design in Startups

Hokkanen, Laura; Kuusinen, Kati; Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Kaisa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33515-5_6

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“…Hokkanen et al [28] present a framework guiding user experience design work in a start-up context. They argue that for a product to be successful in a market it has to fulfill minimal functional and user experience requirements.…”

Section: Software Engineering Practices In Start-upsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

Klotins

Unterkalmsteiner

Chatzipetrou

et al. 2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Context: Software start-ups are emerging as suppliers of innovation and software-intensive products. However, traditional software engineering practices are not evaluated in the context, nor adopted to goals and challenges of start-ups. As a result, there is insufficient support for software engineering in the start-up context. Objective: We aim to collect data related to engineering goals, challenges, and practices in start-up companies to ascertain trends and patterns characterizing engineering work in start-ups. Such data allows researchers to understand better how goals and challenges are related to practices. This understanding can then inform future studies aimed at designing solutions addressing those goals and challenges. Besides, these trends and patterns can be useful for practitioners to make more informed decisions in their engineering practice. Method: We use a case survey method to gather first-hand, in-depth experiences from a large sample of software start-ups. We use open coding and cross-case analysis to describe and identify patterns, and corroborate the findings with statistical analysis. Results: We analyze 84 start-up cases and identify 16 goals, 9 challenges, and 16 engineering practices that are common among startups. We have mapped these goals, challenges, and practices to start-up life-cycle stages (inception, stabilization, growth, and maturity). Thus, creating the progression model guiding software engineering efforts in start-ups. Conclusions: We conclude that start-ups to a large extent face the same challenges and use the same practices as established companies. However, the primary software engineering challenge in start-ups is to evolve multiple process areas at once, with a little margin for serious errors.

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“…[85]. Quality criteria for good user interfaces and user experience are a clear message, visual attractiveness, intuitiveness, and credibility [28].…”

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A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

Klotins

Unterkalmsteiner

Chatzipetrou

et al. 2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Structuring the needsfinding process in this way makes it easier to respond to the needs of the users in later phases and contributes to a successful living lab. This approach is in line with the lean startup methodology, which suggests that, by validating hypotheses of customer's problems, startups find a solution that indicates there is business potential in solving the problem (Hokkanen et al, 2016). In this living lab, customer's needs and wants are also incorporated before the project/product has its final form.…”

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Needsfinding in Living Labs: A Structured Research Approach

Savelkoul

Peutz

2017

Technology Innovation Management Review

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“…For instance, Hokkanen [15] studied interweaving user experience design with the development of a MVP. Hokkanen, Kuusinen and Väänänen [16] presented a framework for start-up companies for design Minimum Viable User Experience (MVUX). In addition, Münch et al [30] studied the creation of MVPs in industry-academia collaboration and Bosch et al [8] as well as Björk et al [1] have discussed on the usage of MVP as a part of software development model in early-stage start-ups.…”

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What is a Minimum Viable (Video) Game?

Hyrynsalmi¹,

Klotins²,

Unterkalmsteiner³

et al. 2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The concept of 'Minimum Viable Product' (MVP) is largely adapted in the software industry as well as in academia. Minimum viable products are used to test hypotheses regarding the target audience, save resources from unnecessary development work and guide a company towards a stable business model. As the game industry is becoming an important business domain, it is not surprise that the concept has been adopted also in the game development. This study surveys how a Minimum Viable Game (MVG) is defined, what is reported in extant literature as well as present results from a small case study survey done to nine game development companies. The study shows that despite popularity of minimum viable games in the industrial fora, the presented views on the concept are diverged and there is lack of practical guidelines and research supporting game companies. This study points out research gaps in the area as well as calls for actions to further develop the concept and to define guidelines.

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Minimum Viable User EXperience: A Framework for Supporting Product Design in Startups

Cited by 29 publications

References 10 publications

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

Needsfinding in Living Labs: A Structured Research Approach

What is a Minimum Viable (Video) Game?

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