Design Sprint - valuable workshops for your company

Day 2.

Exchange of Ideas

Aim: Work out the team's attitude towards achieving a common goal.
Preparing the first sketches.

Introduction:

• Agenda overview – what’s the plan and today’s aim,

Competition analysis:

• Everyone chooses a product/service/application or website to present, and has a specific time to read and present a selected resource
• Taking notes from the meeting and presentations
• Addressing yesterday’s problems that were added to the UX maps

Data collection:

• Collecting data on a problem of one’s choice in the form of a mini-map, list, or any other clear to present form
• Writing down the ideas for the solution

Crazy 8:

• The exercise is based on dividing a sheet of paper into 8 pieces and drawing 8 sketches/application screens of a product in 8 minutes

The purpose of Crazy 8 exercise is not the sketches in itself, but to stimulate the creativity and warm-up the mind.

Project sketch

• At this stage, we draw simple sketches of the real product and steps to solve the problem

Day summary:

Answering the key points:

• Is the goal measurable and achievable?
• Did everyone understand the problem?
• What was remembered?

Day 3.

Decision making

Aim: Choosing a project solution and deciding about its details.

Introduction:

• Agenda overview – what’s the plan and today’s aim

The first voting:

• We vote for projects and solutions that were created the previous day
• Each participant votes on its own for the three most interesting projects

Projects discussion:

• Getting acquainted with projects
• Projects discussion (the creator is silent)
• Meeting moderator writes everything down
• The creator expresses his opinion on the discussion

The second voting:

• Everyone votes anonymously for the project they think is the best and adds an additional explanation of their choice

Creating the action plan template

• Creating the action plan divided into steps (optimally 10-15 steps)

Day summary:

Answering the key points:

• Is the goal measurable and achievable?
• Did everyone understand the problem?
• What was remembered?

Day 4.

Product Prototype
Development

Aim: Dividing participants into roles and developing the solution prototype. Day 4 is dedicated to UX/UI Designers and Copywriters.

Introduction:

• Agenda overview – what’s the plan and today’s aim,

Product prototype development:

If more people are involved in this stage, we assign roles:

2x Designers, 1x Project Manager, 1x Copywriter, 1x Marketing Manager, 1x Moderator

• The creators are responsible for creating application screens
• Copywriter creates content
• PM pays attention to the consistency and project history
• Marketing Manager prepares resources and makes research

We should end this stage with a fully prepared product design mock-up.

Day summary:

The designers prepare clickable prototypes.

Answering the key points:

• Is the goal measurable and achievable?
• Did everyone understand the problem?
• What was remembered?

Day 5.

Testing Procedure

Aim: We test the prototype on target users. Testing process on a real research group.

Introduction:

• Agenda overview – what’s the plan and today’s aim,

Conducting prototype tests:

• At this stage, we should have a clickable prototype (Lo-FI) for the research group in order to get detailed results

Testing cycle:

• Interview - around 60 min
• Break - around 30 min
• Cycle repetition
• Ending and summary - around 45 min

Day summary:

Answering the key points:

• Is the goal measurable and achievable?
• Did everyone understand the problem?
• What was remembered?
• Are we able to implement the solution?
• What should we improve in the testing stage?

Design Sprint ends with a casual discussion over your favorite food & drink.