What is it?

A five-day structured brainstorm based on design thinking and agile development.

A quick introduction to the Design Sprint process.

How does it work?

Read the step-by-step instructions:

Or watch the videos:

Playlist containing day-by-day instructions.

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

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Purchase: buy from Amazon (Note: affiliate link).

“Read this book and do what it says if you want to build better products faster.” — Ev Williams, founder of Medium and Twitter

Watch a presentation.

Take a course.

Name: Product Design by Google

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.

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

Free Skill Level: Intermediate

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: