Design Sprint

Speed and Simplicity – something we might learn from the world of startups.

At Google Ventures, they do product design work with startups all the time. Since they want to move fast and the startups want to move fast, Google has optimized a process that gets predictably good results in five days or less. They call it a product design sprint, and it’s great for getting unstuck or accelerating projects that are already in motion.

Watch Design Sprint Video
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Intro

An introduction to the Design Sprint method. Some background and explanatory thinking..................

Intro Docs
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Prepare

Start with a big, important problem; pitch it to your team; and schedule a user study before you even start..........

Prep Exercises
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Day One

The goal of the first day is to encourage everyone to share what they already know and develop a common view..........

Lift Off
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Day Two

This step is best described as “diverge” because everyone  is cranking out quick sketches on paper.........................

Going Wide
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Day Three

Today we’ll look at how to decide which solutions to flesh out, and how you’ll fit them together into something you can rapidly test with users ................

Decision Day
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Day Four

Now it’s day 4 and the clock is ticking. You’re going to create a real-looking version of yesterday’s storyboard and show it to users tomorrow..........

Get Making
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Day Five

Today, we test our prototype and learn which ideas worked, which didn’t, and what to do next. This is the fixed hard deadline we've been working to........

Test Day
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More.......

Want to know more? Then take a look at this online course on Design Thinking from Stanford's d. School. Its the basis for much of this methodology

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How I made this

I used an online service called "Webflow" - it enabled me to build a fully responsive site without writing any code. View this site on a mobile or a tablet and you'll see what I mean. Its a great tool, obviously it has its limitations, but if we need to use a rapid prototyping methodology then Webflow could be a tool of choice.

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