A Design Sprint is a proven, scientific process of collaborative brainstorming which helps in assessing which features to build first and which ones to eliminate. It helps in saving development time and money by solidifying concepts and building the groundwork for wire-framing and designing.
At Mindbowser, Design Sprint is part of a complete idea transformation process that helps you conceptualize your idea and create a blueprint that the development team can follow. While we use the Design Sprint best practises, we do not stop at just providing recommendations. Our Design Sprint leads to a complete mockup version of your idea that can then act as a blueprint that the development team can follow.
Now, it’s time to look at how Design Sprint works. It’s recommended that a sprint workshop must take 5 days. If fewer, there may not be enough time to build and test a prototype; if more, the focus can be lost, and it may be hard for team members to allocate time and be fully available.
Here is the list of main sprint activities scheduled day by day:
Here are the steps of a typical Design Sprint. To shorten the time and dependency on resources we focus only on the most critical DEFINE-DIVERGE-DECIDE steps during a typical sprint.
We’ll work with you to take all your great ideas and turn them into a focused, goal-oriented product strategy that we can execute successfully together.
Our team of senior designers can create a new UI from scratch or redesign the UI of an existing product. We test our designs with real users to ensure they are easy and a pleasure to use.
Aboli is HFI-Certified Usability Analyst™ with 12 years of extensive experience in the design industry. She has successfully conceptualized and delivered multi-channel, intuitive, accessible and engaging digital experiences to fortune 500 clients.
Vish comes with a rich experience of working with the startups and has helped 20+ startups build their products. He leads UI/UX at Mindbowser and has been successfully running the Google Design Sprint for the last 3 years.
Mindbowser has been running Design Sprint for more than a decade. Over 100+ product ideas have been conceptualized, built, and improved upon by using Mindbowser Design Sprint. With an in-house team of UI and UX engineers from the best pedigree, our Design Sprint process can help you discover magic beans in your ideas, remove any design bottlenecks, and cut through assumptions. Here are a few more reasons to hire us:
A Design Sprint can help quickly prototype and test with real users. This way you can get real feedback even before building anything. This helps you mitigate risk and take the right decisions in terms of feature prioritization and user flow.
Businesses today are very much focused on the idea of breakthrough innovation as the main activity in their unrelenting quest for organic growth. Companies know they need to add new value to the market and deliver it in a way that makes sense for consumers to stay relevant – and they want to find it fast. As a result, people turn to the Design Sprint as their method of choice for stimulating the development of innovative products and services.
To start a remote Design Sprint process, you need the right tools. Everyone needs a good video conferencing tool like Google Hangouts or Zoom. Virtual collaboration spaces such as the Miros Board are also great ways to brainstorm, share ideas and replicate designs. For creating design prototypes we use Figma.
The customer journey refers to a customer’s full experience with a brand or product, not just a portion of the experience. During the Design Sprint, the customer journey maps out a user experience step by step as they use their product.
Usability tests are conducted on real users to understand better how they interact with the product. This way one can improve the design based on the feedback provided.
Design Sprints typically require 5 full calendar free days. This is many times difficult for business owners. In Fact, in a remote Design Sprint setting, it is even hard to have focus through continuous days. Hence at Mindbowser, we divide the whole experience into smaller chunks of time and spread the complete sprint experience over a month period with expected 4-6 hours required weekly from the product owner.
A Design Sprint is effective when you are at a point in your journey where you are trying to find the next step ahead. It is useful when starting out a new product or a new version of an existing product as well as when you are trying to find a product fit.
Post Design Sprint, you end up with a click-through prototype. You take this prototype and test it with real users. Then we assess any gaps in user experience from the feedback received. Once wireframes are ready after revision they go for development and a development plan is created.
Design Thinking is a way of designing products, services, or experiences that strive on the end-user first. Design Sprint is a precise, week-long approach to help solve business problems that include variations of design thinking tenants, comprising prototyping and user research.
A clickthrough prototype links multiple screens that the user can access by click or tap on particular areas of the screen. The goal is to create a nonprogramming application that the users can still experience and understand the flow of information in the software.
Information architecture (IA) is a flowchart depicting the various modules and their connection in the application. IA provides a comprehensive view of the flow of information in the software.
Personas define your end user. They help you understand your user needs, aspirations, and expectations from the product. This in turn helps in prioritizing features and taking decisions by keeping the user needs at the center of any design decision.
At Mindbowser, a design sprint is a complete product development journey. And the expectation of design sprint, includes a complete user persona, competitor research, complete prototype development, and in-depth research. We invest up to 3 to 4 weeks into the process, but customers don’t need to invest their full time—most of the heavy lifting done by our UX designers and business analysts.
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