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The Official 5-Day Design Sprint

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- The Official 5-Day Design Sprint
- Set the stage
  Sprint basics
  Big challenge
  Sprint team
  Email Summary
- Monday: Map
  1. Introductions
  2. Explain the sprint
  3. Long-term goal
  4. Sprint questions
  5. Map
  6. Lunch
  7. Ask the experts
  8. Target
- Tuesday: Sketch
  1. Lightning demos
  2. Divide or swarm
  3. Sketch
  Example
  All Crazy 8's
  All Solutions
  4. Begin recruiting
- Wednesday: Decide
  1. Sticky decision
  2. Rumble
  3. Storyboard
- Thursday: Prototype
  1. Pick the right tools
  2. Divide and conquer
  3. Build the prototype
  4. Do a trial run
  5. Prepare for tomorrow
- Friday: Test
  1. Interviews
  2. Take Notes
  3. Make a plan

The Official 5-Day Design Sprint

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Wednesday: Decide

You have a bunch of ideas in sketch form - it's time to make a decision.

1. Sticky decision

By Wednesday morning of your sprint, you and your team will have a stack of solutions based on your sketches from

Tuesday: Sketch⁠

. That’s great, but it’s also a problem. You can’t prototype and test them all — you need one solid plan.

In the morning, you’ll

critique⁠

each solution, and decide which ones have the best chance of achieving your long-term goal. Then, in the afternoon, you’ll take the winning scenes from your sketches and weave them into a

3. Storyboard⁠

: a step-by-step plan for your prototype.

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1. Sticky decision⁠

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