Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award-winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process.

User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience. Corporate leaders, marketers, product owners, and designers will learn how cognitive processes from different brain regions form what we perceive as a singular experience. Author John Whalen shows you how anyone on your team can conduct "contextual interviews" to unlock insights.

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will never see the light of day - no matter how good it is. This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs.

Data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.

今、最も注目される若き起業家が生きていくための路上ライブで身につけた人生とビジネスの本質をすべて明かす―。

SNS時代を生き抜く為に必要な〝コミュニティ〟とは何か。

SNSの次の潮流である、ライブ配信サービスの最前線はどこか。

アーティスト、アイドル、モデルなどの配信が無料で視聴・応援できる。そして、誰でも配信者になれる。画期的な仮想ライブ空間の「SHOWROOM」を創り出した前田裕二の全思考。

「勝算なんて何の根拠もないことを、この若き経営者は知っている。だから、前田裕二を信じた。」

――秋元康

秋元さんが〝堀江以来の天才がいる〟というから会ってみたら、本当だった。

――堀江貴文

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「秋元さん。僕は、ビジネスにも人生にも、勝算があります」

秋元康さんと出会った頃に、伝えた言葉です。

僕の勝算は、ビジネスにとどまらない。

僕は、自分の人生に勝つ自信がある。そんな、僕のような若造の言葉を受けて、秋元さんは、「君の、根拠のない自信が好きだ」と言いました。

以来、「人生の勝算」という言葉は、僕が迷った時に立ち返る大事な考え方になっています。

上述の通りこの本では、成長ビジネスの勘所について語っており、この本を読めば、あらゆる〝ビジネス〟の勝算が上がると確信しています。

しかし、単なるビジネス本は書きたくなかった。この本を手にとってくれた方が、自分の〝人生〟そのものについて、勝算を持つ。そんな、温かい本を書きたかった。

僕が全力で魂を注ぎ込んだこの本が、皆さんの人生を1㎜でもプラスの方向に傾けることを、心から願ってやみません。

(本書 「プロローグ」より)

Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer - but only if you work at it.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics. Mark Richards and Neal Ford—hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years—focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks.

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it's often difficult to understand what each one offers. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.

Lean UX is synonymous with modern product design and development. In the third edition of this award-winning book, authors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden help you focus on the product experience rather than deliverables. You'll learn tactics for integrating user experience design, product discovery, agile methods, and product management. And you'll discover how to drive your design in short, iterative cycles to assess what works best for businesses and users. Lean UX guides you through this change - for the better.

"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.