Preparing for your Design Sprint is as important as the running of the Sprint itself.
The Sprint Brief is a tool for aligning your team and your stakeholders on the goals and deliverables for the Sprint.
Doing exploratory research before your Design Sprint can be helpful when approaching a completely new idea or project.
Creativity is sparked in spaces that are open, full of light, and have available surfaces for working and documenting.
A Design Sprint is the beginning of generating new ideas and developing solutions for a challenge, not a single moment or the end of the process.
The Design Sprint follows six phases Understand, Define, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, and Validate.
In the Understand phase, you will create a shared knowledge base across all participants.
In the Decide phase, the Design Sprint team finalizes the direction or concept to be prototyped.
In the Prototype phase, the Design Sprint team will work together to create a prototype of your concept.
In the Validate phase, the Design Sprint team will put your concept in front of users - this is your moment of truth!
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In the Define phase, the team evaluates everything they learned in the Understand phase to establish focus.
In the Sketch phase, the Design Sprint team generates and shares a broad range of ideas as individuals.