A Design Sprint is a 5-day methodology to move from ideation to a user-tested prototype. The problem with the Design Sprint is that it requires the whole team to work on the same prototype for an entire week. Once you finish the week and the team begins implementation, they often end up working asynchronously, reviewing most of the steps.

The idea is breaking down the 5-day into async flow and using the same toolbox to support async ideation and definition of the product.

During the product ideation and definition, we encourage the seed team members to use one of the following tools.

Design Sprint Toolbox

Understand and Map: Choose a target.

Lightning Talks

User Interviews

HMW Sharing

User Journey Map

Diverge and Sketch: Competing solutions.

Comparable Problem

Boot-up Note Taking

Crazy 8’s

Solution Sketch

Decide: decide the best option.

Present

Review Goals & Criteria

Heat Map Voting

Dot Voting

Decision Matrix

Note and Vote

Prototype: build a first iteration

Storyboard

Script

Clickable Mocks

Interactive Prototype

Physical Prototype

Vision Video

Test and Validate: talk to users

Usability Test

Cognitive Walkthrough

Live Experiment

Stakeholder Review