My Thoughts on Design Sprint

Mohamed Elsayed
2 min readJun 6, 2020

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My thoughts on Design Sprint

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Design Sprint is an activity to let you get ahead of a problem/challenge. it’s invented by Jake Knapp

Design sprint ‘s been usually held to show up different ideas, different perspectives from many participants.

Two types of design sprints

1- Internal. It’s usually held with your teammates. When?. Once you’ve a challenging project, big or complicated problem, or you need different perspectives.

2- External. It ‘s held with stakeholders. When?. Once you need to onboard client with you, you want them to be involved in your process, they share their ideas. It gives them a sense of ownership.

Difference between Design Thinking, Design Sprint in one sentence?

Design thinking is a philosophy you build your hypothesis with, but design sprint is a practical arm of design thinking to come out with many ideas.

Design Sprint Agenda:

1- Onboard participants with product history, its challenges

2- Identify How might we

3- Define Design Principles

4- Vote on the most 3 relevant principles

5- Draw Crazy 8 sketches.

6- Sketch Big one (solution).

If you’re a sprint facilitator. You should

1- Be energetic, enthusiastic.

2- Have a clearly defined problem, challenges.

3- Onboard participants with a walkthrough project scope, what has been done, client amendments.

4- Engage participants with you. Make sure everyone engaged, aligned with you.

5- Document as you go.

6- Vote on ideas. You have 3 votes.

If you’re a Participant. You should

1- Make sure you understand the problem/challenges well.

2- Be engaged with everyone, the facilitator. Ask him if you need that.

3- the funniest / challenging part is to participate with your rough sketches, ideas in crazy 8 sketches / 5 minutes exercise.

4- Learn from other peers’ ideas.

5- Vote on the most relevant ideas, you have 3 votes

Additional Resources, I recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8MOwcqZuuU

Have A Lovely Day

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