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Design Sprints

A fixed period, often five days, in which a team goes from a key question to a tested prototype.

What is Design Sprints?

A fixed period, often five days, in which a team goes from a key question to a tested prototype.

What you learn

Spend a sprint on one question a prototype can answer.

When it helps

an important question keeps getting debated, and the team needs evidence fast.

Use it at work

  1. Agree on one question a prototype can answer.
  2. Map the problem and sketch solutions.
  3. Choose one, and build a realistic prototype.
  4. Test it with about five people on the last day.

Your output

Before a sprint, write the one question you’ll answer by the last day, and check that a realistic prototype can answer it.

Watch for

Sprinting on a vague goal, or a question no prototype can answer.

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