The Design Sprint
A practical guide to answering critical business questions, created by Google Ventures.
What is it?
A five-day structured brainstorm based on design thinking and agile development.
How does it work?
Read the step-by-step instructions:
- The product design sprint: Setting the Stage
- Day 1: The product design sprint: Understand
- Day 2: The product design sprint: Diverge
- Day 3: The product design sprint: Decide
- Day 4: The product design sprint: Prototype
- Day 5: The product design sprint: Validate
Or watch the videos:
Why use it?
To answer critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers before launching a product or a feature of a product.
Who was it created by?
Who uses it?
Read stories from the teams and companies running Design Sprints, published by Google Ventures:
How can I learn more about it?
From the source.
- Google Ventures:
- Product Design Sprint Playbook to help a sprint master lead their team through the sprint:
Read the book.
- Title: Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
- Purchase: buy from Amazon (Note: affiliate link).
Watch a presentation.
Take a course.
- Name: Product Design by Google
- Description: This course is designed to help you materialize your game-changing idea and transform it into a product that you can build a business around. Product Design blends theory and practice to teach you product validation, UI/UX practices, Google’s Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics. This course is part of Udacity’s Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree Program.
- Price: Free
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Duration: Approximately 2 months
Attend a meetup.
Resources.
Setting the Stage
- Checklist:
- How to set up the war room:
- Shopping list for sprint supplies:
Day 1
- Daily checklist for Monday:
Day 2
- Daily checklist for Tuesday:
- How to recruit customer for testing:
Day 3
- Daily checklist for Wednesday:
- Schedule customers and draft interview guide:
Day 4
- Daily checklist for Thursday:
- Finalize test schedule and complete interview guide:
Day 5
- Daily checklist for Friday:
- Interview customers and summarize findings:
General
- Tools to run design sprints:
- Get coaching email with a detailed checklist and video about the upcoming sprint exercises from the Sprint Bot:
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