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  • TASK

    What is a design sprint?

    As taught in the Project planning workshop (27.11.), design sprint is a flexible framework that helps you to maximize the chances of designing something useful for your client. There are many ways to utilize design sprints based on your projects’ needs and stage. For example, you can use design sprint to come up with initial concept ideas, expand on an existing concept, or explore new ways to use the concept. 

    The basic steps of a design sprint are the following, but you can modify this flexible process to fit your needs:

    1.       Understand – draw ideas from your research data

    2.       Ideate – brainstorm lots of ideas

    3.       Decide – Rank solutions, pick one

    4.       Prototype – Create different types of prototypes based on what do you want to test

    5.       Validate – Test and observe what is effective for users

    Design sprint documentation

    After completing a design sprint, it’s time to reflect on the entire sprint and learn from it. The purpose is to create some kind of a capture document as an artifact to show your supervisor, client, and course faculty what worked, what didn’t, and how to move forward. 

    The style and structure of each IDBM team’s sprint summary document may vary widely depending on the project and your client. Some projects may produce a detailed document that are several pages long while others may use an executive summary style. 

    To create an informative design sprint document, you may want to incorporate photos or videos of your sprint activities, including whiteboards, Post-it notes, prototypes, discussion notes, and anything else that was created during the sprint. As an example, your document may look like a photo album with pictures and notes that clarify the visual artifacts that were created. You may also want to include questions or notes of the identified gaps in your knowledge that need to be answered with further research. Then, iterate with another design sprint to get them resolved.

    EVALUATION

    Pass/fail

    DEADLINE 26.4.

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