User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy & UX design but until now there hasn't been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it This hands-on guide introduces lightweight strategy tools & techniques to help you & your team craft innovative multi-device products that people like to use Whether you're an entrepreneur UXUI designer product manager or part of an intrapreneurial team this book teaches simple-to-advanced strategies that you can use in your work right away Along with business cases historical context & real-world examples throughout you'll also gain different perspectives on the subject through interviews with top strategists Define & validate your target users through provisional personas & customer discovery techniques Conduct competitive research & analysis to explore a crowded marketplace or an opportunity to create unique value Focus your team on the primary utility & business model of your product by running structured experiments using prototypes Devise UX funnels that increase customer engagement by mapping desired user actions to meaningful metrics