design sprint
A focused journey from idea to user-tested solution. As your facilitator, I'll guide your team through this collaborative process, channeling your collective expertise to tackle design challenges efficiently. Together, we'll decide, create, and test, turning abstract concepts into tangible designs that resonate with your users.
Rapid design, real results
Tired of slow, messy product design? Design Sprint is your new best friend! It zips past those pesky meetings and indecision, getting your team on the same page fast. The result? Cool, customer-friendly products that don't sacrifice quality or innovation.
Align your team around a clear product vision
Rapidly prototype and test ideas efficiently
Make data-driven decisions reducing risk
Compress months of work into 20 days
Energize your team with focused creativity
Why juicy patterns
15
Years of Excellence
Since 2009, I've refined my process with 100+ successful sprints across diverse industries.
85%
Success Rate
My sprints result in viable products 85% of the time, saving you time and resources.
30%
Faster Time-to-Market
Launch your products quicker and stay ahead of the competition.
Rapid design evolution
Supercharge your product development with our streamlined 4-week process. I blend strategic alignment, creative ideation, high-fidelity prototyping, and data-driven validation to transform ideas into market-ready solutions. Experience the power of rapid iteration and user-centric design, all while minimizing risk and maximizing impact.
Understand and define
Align strategy with the right canvases. Synthesize and prioritize through workshop collaboration. This establishes a shared vision and clear project direction.
Sketch and decide
Identify critical challenges. Collaboratively create storyboards evolving into user flows. This transforms strategic insights into concrete solution concepts.
Build
Develop a high-fidelity, interactive prototype closely resembling the final product. This tangible visualization enables richer stakeholder feedback and reduces potential rework.
Validate
Validate assumptions through user interviews and quantitative metrics. This dual approach provides actionable insights, combining user feedback with measurable data for informed refinements.
Laying the Foundation
This phase kicks off our sprint by visualizing key business elements. We map customers, concepts, alternatives, actions, environment, technologies, trends, and more. This collaborative process ensures we're all on the same page. Our comprehensive approach tailors solutions considering all crucial factors.
Guiding the flow
Expert facilitation energizes the session. Open sharing aligns everyone's thinking.
Visualized thoughts
We visualize ideas together. It sparks creativity and includes everyone's input.
From Ideas to Action
We take our insights and turn them into visual stories. These evolve into storyboards, mapping out solid user flows. Then, as a team, we pick the winning sketch to become our foundation to the interactive prototype.
Guided creativity
Guided exercises fuel creative thinking. Rapid inspiration sparks innovative solutions.
Playful Decision-Making
Unique voting sparks engagement. FigJam turns choices into fun.
From sketch to screen
We transform storyboards into Figma flows. Starting with a flexible low-fidelity prototype, we refine rapidly. The polished result impresses users and marketers alike.
Real-Time Design
Live prototyping brings ideas to life instantly. Figma's auto-layout enables on-the-spot collaborative refinement.
Focused Feedback Flow
Threaded replies enable in-depth design discussions. Contextual annotations keep all feedback organized and accessible.
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Measure & thrive
Early validation with Figma prototypes sparks user-driven refinements. Quick iterations reduce risks and align teams, boosting confidence in design decisions.
What you get
A design sprint is a fast, structured process created by Google to boost innovation and reduce risk in product development. It aligns teams, uses their collective knowledge, and quickly produces customer-focused products.
Artifacts and Documentation
Sprint tracker
Comprehensive Figjam board tracking sprint progress, key decisions, team discussions, and creative ideation
User insights map
Detailed user journeys and personas mapping customer interactions, pain points, and delightful experiences
Alignment document
Sprint brief aligning team and stakeholders on goals, outcomes, success metrics, and project constraints
Concepts and prototypes
Idea portfolio
Ten detailed concepts with sketches, implementations, and feasibility assessments
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Interactive prototype
Customer-tested prototype demonstrating proposed solution with interactive features and user feedback
User test footage
Video recordings of user testing sessions, including participant feedback and observed behavioral insights
Insights and Learnings
Feedback analysis
Aggregated user feedback on tested prototype via scorecard, comments, and prioritized improvement ideas
Need assessment
Identification of customer needs and solvable issues through in-depth analysis and market trend evaluation
Assumption validation
Validation of key product and user assumptions with supporting evidence and recommended next action steps
Strategic Outputs
Product roadmap
Refined product roadmap based on sprint insights, future opportunities, and competitive landscape analysis
Vision pitch deck template
Pitch materials to communicate product vision, including executive summary and stakeholder presentations
Action Plan
Post-sprint plan to guide product development, prioritize features, and allocate resources effectively
Three Paths to Innovation
Accelerate innovation with our flexible sprint options. Choose the classic 4-day Design Sprint for quick results, Design Sprint+ for deeper insights and refined prototypes, or Sprint MVP for a comprehensive 3-month journey from concept to MVP. Whether you're tight on time or ready for in-depth exploration, we have a sprint to match your needs and goals.
Design Sprint
The classic 4-day innovation bootcamp that rapidly aligns teams and tests ideas. Perfect for quick validation of concepts and jumpstarting innovation projects.
Design Sprint+
Our enhanced sprint with deeper research, refined prototypes, and targeted validation. Ideal for complex challenges requiring more nuanced insights and polished outcomes.
Design Sprint Apex
A comprehensive 3-month journey from concept to MVP, building on sprint methodologies. This immersive process ensures thorough exploration, development, and validation of your product idea.
FAQs
Thorough preparation is critical for a successful sprint. Here's how we help:
- Goal-setting: We work with you to align on a meaningful challenge and articulate clear sprint questions to guide the team.
- Participant selection: We advise on recruiting the right mix of cross-functional experts, decision-makers, and fresh perspectives for the sprint team.
- Pre-sprint assignments: To maximize our time together, we provide pre-reading materials and assignments to get participants in the right mindset.
- Stakeholder management: We help to communicate the purpose and get buy-in for the sprint across the organization.
The sprint is just the beginning! We know a prototype alone doesn't drive impact - it needs to be smartly implemented. Here's how we support you post-sprint:
- Insight reports: Within a week of the sprint, we deliver a comprehensive report summarizing key decisions, learnings, and user testing insights to align stakeholders.
- Roadmapping: We facilitate prioritization sessions with the team to build a actionable roadmap to evolve the prototype into a real product.
- Ongoing design support: Our designers can partner with your team to refine the winning concept into a high-fidelity, production-ready experience.
- Agile coaching: We help teams adopt agile best practices to maintain the momentum and learnings from the sprint as they build and scale the solution.
One of the best things about design sprints is their versatility. They can drive impact in organizations of all sizes and types, from scrappy startups to global enterprises. Sprints can yield benefits for:
- Startups looking to disrupt an industry with an innovative product or service
- Established companies seeking to improve an existing customer experience
- Nonprofits and government agencies striving to create citizen-centric solutions
- Agile coaching: We help teams adopt agile best practices to maintain the momentum and learnings from the sprint as they build and scale the solution.
We recognize that pulling a full team away from their day-to-day work for 4 weeks straight can be challenging. That's why we offer flexible design sprint formats to fit your needs:
- Condensed sprints: We can shorten the sprint to 2-3 weeks by focusing on the most critical activities and leveraging pre-work. This still delivers valuable insights and solutions.
- Phased sprints: We can break the sprint into focused 1-week phases spread over a longer period, allowing the team to balance sprint work with other priorities.
- Customized sprints: We can tailor the sprint activities and deliverables to your unique timeline, team, and goals. We'll work with you to design the optimal format.
- Customized sprints: We can tailor the sprint activities and deliverables to your unique timeline, team, and goals. We'll work with you to design the optimal format.