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The Design Sprint

The Design Sprint

This page is a DIY guide for running your own sprint.

Maximizing The Design Sprint

Maximizing The Design Sprint

A design sprint allows you to see into the future to learn in just five days what customers think about your finished product.

How to Get Business Value From a Design Sprint

How to Get Business Value From a Design Sprint

There’s no doubt this model is working for some. Yet because I’ve been running these types of sprints for a while, I’m often asked, “How is it possible to get business value from this in just 5 days?”

The Role Of Storyboarding In UX Design

The Role Of Storyboarding In UX Design

In order to create better products, designers must understand what’s going on in the user’s world and understand how their products can make the user’s life better. And that’s where storyboards come in.

Videos

Design Sprint Full Summary

Design Sprint Full Summary

In this video, AJ&Smart tells you everything you need to know about the Design Sprint. From the day to day all the way through to the principles you should keep in mind. It's the most comprehensive look at the Design Sprint in one video out there!

Design Sprint 2.0 Storyboarding HACK

Design Sprint 2.0 Storyboarding HACK

Ever since we started doing Design Sprints, we began looking for ways to hack the process... because, why not! We found there were a couple of major pain points that we wanted to fix, so we experimented and eventually came up with a few ways to make the process work even better for us.

All the Supplies You Need to Run a Design Sprint

All the Supplies You Need to Run a Design Sprint

So you're ready to run your own Design Sprint? Well we're here to help! Here are all the supplies you'll need to get through a professional design sprint with your design team, business or startup! You might think that these "things" don't matter very much, but we beg to differ.

Product Design Process: Problem Solving Exercise

Product Design Process: Problem Solving Exercise

Whether you're working in web design, product design, a startup or even a big corporate, this exercise will drastically improve how quickly and easily you come up with solutions for any problem your team might be facing.

What's the difference between Agile Sprints and Design Sprints?

What's the difference between Agile Sprints and Design Sprints?

In the Startup world, the words agile and sprint get tossed around quite a bit. And one thing that can be difficult to do is define these terms in order to use them correctly in the product and startup chats.

GV's Sprint Process in 90 Seconds

GV's Sprint Process in 90 Seconds

The big idea with the sprint is to build and test a prototype in just five days. It's kind of like fast-forwarding into the future so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of building a real product. Watch for a quick preview of the sprint process.

When should you do a Product Design Sprint?

When should you do a Product Design Sprint?

Everybody seems to be getting a little crazy about this whole Design Sprint thing! But a Design Sprint is a very intense process that just can't be done on a weekly basis (nor should it!) So, when should you do a Design Sprint then? When will your team get the most out of it? It's a question we get all the time... so we thought we'd answer it in a video!

Podcast

Jake Knapp: beyond the sprint

Jake Knapp: beyond the sprint

In this episode, Jake Knapp discusses topics like the relationship between design thinking and the sprint process, how sprints can work in harmony with an agile development cycle, and when not to use design sprints.

Mastering the Design Sprint is Product Management

Mastering the Design Sprint is Product Management

Jay Melone, Partner at New Haircut, shares how design sprints can help product teams validate ideas in just five days and what product leaders must do before, during and after a design sprint to ensure it’s successful.

Tools

Design Sprint Kit

Design Sprint Kit

Your resource for planning and running a Design Sprint.

Duco App

Duco App

Your practical guide to running successful Design Sprints.

Realtime Board

Realtime Board

Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration solution designed for distributed organizations.

Books

Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.