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We're Building a New Design Sprint Guide

We’ve been running design sprints for over 10 years, it’s time for us to share everything we know about them in an updated guide.
Luke Mitchell
March 17, 2023
Modifications we’ve made to the Design Sprint

Design Sprints, by their very nature, are flexible. They follow an overall arc that drives towards testing ideas with potential users, but are not constrained to a single dogmatic way to go about that.
Eric Bailey
May 25, 2021
- Design Sprints
- Design
New Online Workshop: How To Unstick Your Product Strategy with One Exercise

Watch thoughtbot Design Director Jaclyn Perrone facilitate a live, unscripted Lightning Design Jam with the product team at HBR.
Jaclyn Perrone
April 23, 2020
Playbook updates: New Rapid Product Validation Section and Designing Section Updates

Over the last few months, we’ve made some big changes to our playbook. We’ve added a new section, Rapid Product Validation, and updated our Designing section.
Kyle Fiedler
April 7, 2020
Running Your First Design Sprint (and how to do it remotely)

Go on a deep dive of how to run a design sprint, even when you can’t be there in-person.
Thom Obarski
March 31, 2020
How D&D Made Me Better at Facilitating Design Sprints

Insight into how nerdy collaborative board games can help you level up your skills as a facilitator of product design sprints.
Jeff Stolz
May 27, 2019
Delivering features faster

Get the most velocity from your product team as it transitions from prototyping and validation to growth.
Kane Baccigalupi
May 15, 2019
How to define and prioritize features for your MVP

Starting a business and building an MVP is hard, really hard. In fact, according to CB Insights, 70% of startups will fail. Learn how to reduce your risk of failure by building only the features you need in your MVP.
Adrian Rogowski
July 4, 2018
- Startup
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- Process
- MVP
When to Approach a Digital Consultancy

Anjali, Bukol and Carol each have a startup. Each of them chooses a different time to start talking to a digital consultancy. But, what are the benefits of each approach?
Laurie Young and Sandra Donskyte
March 28, 2018
- Business
- Agile
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- Design Sprints
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- London
Ways I've experimented with Design Sprints to make them more sustainable.

I’ve found facilitating a product design sprint really draining for my team and me. Here are a few things that we’ve tried to make them more sustainable.
Kyle Fiedler
November 2, 2017
- Design Sprints
- Product Design
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