Design sprints: guides from On-Off Group

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A design sprint is a short, structured week where a team designs a solution and tests it with real customers before building anything. It suits work that has been stuck in review for months. These pages cover how a sprint runs day by day, who needs to be in the room, and what you have at the end.

The basics

• What is a design sprint and what you have at the end of it
  Heard the term from a vendor, wants plain English.

How to do it

• How to run a 5 day design sprint from problem to tested prototype
  Wants the day-by-day plan before committing.

For your kind of team

• Design sprints for insurers working on customer-facing web journeys
  Wants evidence sprints work on regulated journeys.

Choosing between options

• Design sprint or design thinking workshop: when to run each
  Terms get used interchangeably by vendors.

What it costs and how long it takes

• What a design sprint costs, how long it takes, who needs to be in the room
  Clearing five days of calendars needs justification.

Alternatives to what you do today

• Instead of a six month build, design and test the journey in two weeks
  Time to market is the thing being questioned.

On-Off Group trains teams, tests products with real customers, finds where a transformation has stalled and builds what gets it moving, for banks, insurers and enterprises in the Philippines, since 2015. How we help with design sprints.