Design Sprint
A time-bound process with five phases typically spread over five 8-hour days. The goal of design sprints is to answer critical business questions through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users
Why it matters
Its real trick is compression: decisions that would drift across weeks of meetings get made in one room in five days — and tested on real users before anyone has time to fall in love with the solution.
The numbers
- 5 days — understand, sketch, decide, prototype, test
- Day 5 — five users, real reactions, before real investment
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