Design Sprints

Overview

The big idea with the Design Sprint is to build and test a prototype in just five days.

Watch the short intro videos of Google Ventures on the topic (only 90 seconds) here.

Summary

Google Ventures has published a Medium Blog Post on the topic that quickly describes the goals and advantages of a sprint: https://medium.com/@jakek/stop-brainstorming-and-start-sprinting-16180839b43d

Agenda

Monday

• 10 a.m. Write Checklist

• 10:05 a.m. Introductions (if some people don’t know each other)

• 10:10 a.m. Explain the sprint

• 10:15-ish Set a long term goal (get optimistic)

• 10:50-ish List sprint questions (get pessimistic)

• 11:30-ish Make a map

• 1 p.m. Lunch

• 2 p.m. Explain “How Might We” Notes

• 2:10 p.m. Expert Interviews (15-30 min each)

• 4:00 p.m. Organize “How Might We” Notes

• 4:10 p.m. Vote on “How Might We” Notes

• 4:30-ish Pick a target on the map (Customer + Problem)

• 4:45-ish End of day

Tuesday

• 10 a.m. Lightning Demos.

• 12:30-ish Decide who will sketch which part of the map

• 1 p.m. Lunch

• 2 p.m. Explain Four-Step Sketch.

• 2:10 p.m. Take notes

• 2:30 p.m. Jot down Ideas

• 2:50 p.m. Crazy 8s

• 2:58 p.m. Solution sketch

• 3:30/ 4:00/ 4:30 p.m. End of day

Wednesday

• 10 a.m. Art Museum & Heat Map

• 10:30 a.m. Speed Critique

• 11:15 a.m. Explain Straw poll & supervote

• 11:20 a.m. Straw Poll & Supervote

• 11:30-ish Divide winners from “maybe-laters.” and from supervotes

• 11:35 Rumble or all-in-one.

• 11:40 If Rumble - Note and Vote for fake brand names

• 1 p.m. Lunch

• 2 p.m. Make a storyboard

• 2:15 p.m. Choose an opening scene

• 2:45 p.m. Fill out the storyboard

• 3:30/ 4:00/ 4:30 p.m. End of day

Thursday

• 10 a.m. Pick the right tools

• 10:30 a.m. Assign roles: Maker, Stitcher, Writer, Asset Collector, and Interviewer.

• 10:45 a.m. Prototype!

• 1 p.m. Lunch

• 2. p.m. Prototype!

• 2:30 p.m. Stitch it together

• 3-ish Do a trial run & finish up the prototype

• 4:00/ 4:30 p.m. End of day

Friday

• 9:45 a.m. Set up hardware & video stream

• 10 a.m. Interview 1

• 10:40 a.m. Short break

• 10:45 a.m. Interview 2

• 11:25 a.m. Short break

• 11:30 a.m. Interview 3

• 12:10 a.m. Short break

• 12:15 p.m. Interview 4

• 1 p.m. Lunch

• 2 p.m. Interview 5

• 2:40 p.m. Short break

• 2:45 p.m. Sorting notes

• 3 p.m. Summarize learnings & plan next week

• 3:30 p.m. End of day