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  1. Building your product: from zero to MVP

    If you’re about to build your MVP product, you may, like the rest of us, have some trouble getting started. Here’s what we recommend.

    Devin Jameson and Anthony Moffa
    April 24, 2020
    • Design
    • Development
    • Product Design
    • MVP
  2. 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
    • Design Sprints
    • Remote
    • Product Design
  3. Using personas in the Product Design Sprint

    Hi, my name is Eric, and I used to hate personas.

    Eric Bailey
    March 4, 2020
    • Design
    • User Research
    • Product Design Sprint
    • Product Design
  4. 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
    • Technical Debt
    • Design Sprints
    • Product Design
    • Productivity
  5. Design Sprints: Storyboarding Tips

    Storyboarding can be the most daunting part of a design sprint, hopefully these techniques will help.

    Luke Mitchell
    April 15, 2019
    • Design Sprint
    • Product Design
    • Design
    • Techniques
    • Process
  6. Start with the problem

    Take a moment to define the problem to improve your likelihood of success.

    Christian Reuter
    March 21, 2018
    • Design
    • Product Design
    • Process
  7. The Barbican Estate: Walking Through Lessons Learnt

    Reflecting on the design lessons learned from wandering around the Barbican Estate. An honest, beautiful and inspiring example of brutalist architecture in the center of London.

    Luke Mitchell
    March 12, 2018
    • Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • Inspiration
    • London
  8. “Build vs Buy” Considerations for New Products

    Exploring a new product or venture? Know when to build, buy, and hire.

    Josh Clayton
    January 30, 2018
    • Business
    • Product Design
    • Boston
  9. 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
  10. Things I wish I knew before my first Design Sprint

    Luke reflects on things he’s learnt by facilitating Design Sprints, and asks the thoughtbot design team some of theirs too.

    Luke Mitchell
    September 6, 2017
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    • Product Design
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