Design Sprint to define product and help viability decision
The client reached out to map out a new feature set within a short timeframe and validate the idea. Replacing endless meetings and guesswork with real work and tangible results.
Session 1
Goal 1: define scope of design sprint
Goal 2: define long-term product goals
Methodology
How might we
Collecting, organizing and voting on How might we? questions to understand the problem
Long term goals
Collecting 2-3 year-long goals related to the product and defining an ultimate one
Map
Map out an itialy, approximate user journey to find key moments, especially the end goal
Sprint Questions
Collecting questions that will help evalute the success of the Design Sprint
Session 2
Goal 1: generate different solutions to our problem
Goal 2: choose a solution and create a prioritised feature list
Methodology
Lightning demos
Gathering digital products approaching the same problem that we’re approaching in order to get inspired and get some creative energy
Notes & Ideas
Based on the goal and problem statement, generating multiple rough ideas and solutions
Crazy 8
Within 8 minutes sketch 8 different solutions, to generate variety of solutions
Concept Sketching
Based on the Notes & ideas + Crazy 8 each participant choose one solution and create a complete concept of it
Different type of voting methods (Heat Map, Poll) will help the key decision maker to choose the best concept which will be the basis of the prototype
MoSCoW
Create a clear hierarchy of functions based on the concepts
Session 3
Goal 1: create user test flow to validate the feature set/ product
Goal 2: agree on exact prototype screens
Methodology
Usertest flow
Based on the selected concept and the features coming up with the interview test flow
Storyboard
Creating screen sketches based on the user interview flow in order to leave no open questions for the prototype
After the Design Sprint we created the prototype and run a few interviews to validate the idea.
Created a minified version of Design Sprint to fit within the 4 days-long timeframe, where we couldn’t book full days to workshops.
We were running this Design Sprint in order to solve
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defining what MVP feature set is
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defining how it would be part of the app
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evaluating if the feature set is viable and there’s an user need behind that
By the end of this Design Sprint
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testable prototype
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deeper understanding of what functions are useful for users
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viability decision/decision point
To reach our design sprint goals and answer the challenge we built 3 Sessions
Session 1 - map and list sprint questions
Session 2 - inspire and sketch + decide on solution
Session 3 - storyboard and user test flow