We swear by our design sprints and we’re experts at facilitating them.
Google’s Design Sprint is an effective and collaborative process that helps you solve any design problem in a short amount of time. At RUBICON, we effectively organize and host design sprints to collaborate with our clients and come up with clear solutions. We’d be happy to facilitate a design sprint with your team to help you solve any business problem before we head into the development phase of your project.
A design sprint is a productive five-day process used for validating ideas through strong communication, prototyping, and testing with real users.
The design sprint eliminates endless discussions and makes the product development process both fast and productive. At the end of the five-day process, participants are left with a complete prototype that has been tested and produces real data. After the sprint, the data can be analyzed ensuring a final decision can be made and the development process can begin.
Design sprints can be used for a variety of reasons such as to design a new feature, help a business enter a new market, or visualize a product. If you believe that the design sprint would give you more clarity and help you prepare for product development, we’re ready if you are!
Before starting the design sprint we build a diverse team of individuals that can bring us a variety of ideas and skills from RUBICON’s side and the client’s side. Our design sprints usually consist of 7-8 people at most including CEOs, designers, product owners, and developers. In addition, we nominate a responsible RUBICON facilitator to guide everyone through the process and keep things flowing in the right direction.
The design sprint consists of five detailed days with different activities that will include discussion, brainstorming, sketching, and voting that will bring you closer to your business goal.
Here is what the usual design sprint looks like:
Mapping Monday
Tuesday Sketches
Wednesday Decisions
Thursday Prototyping
Friday Testing
By the fifth day of the design sprint workshop, you will have more insight on your business idea, feature, or goal. The design sprint will answer all of your questions, give you clear ideas and launch you into the software development process with our team.
Check out some design sprint workshops we’ve run with our clients here.