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Design Sprint Template: How to validate ideas in record time
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Design Sprint Template: How to validate ideas in record time

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Understand

Start by understanding the problem you'd like to solve.

Instructions

Start with an area of the customer journey that you want to focus on.
Interview a handful of experts on that part of the customer journey. As they talk, each person in the group individually adds problems they identify to the table below.
To remove bias, keep the “show everyone’s ideas box unchecked until the expert interviews are finished.
Check the box to show everyone’s answers and discuss.
Everyone votes on their favorite
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ideas, then the decision maker chooses a problem to focus on during the sprint

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Set timer for:
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What we’re focused on

It’s often helpful to create a quick sketch of the flow you’re focusing on in a whiteboard tool like
MURAL
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EXAMPLE
For this sprint we’ll focus on the portion of the customer journey around the signup flow.
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Problems with that flow

As you listen to the experts, add problems to the list below. We’ll vote as a team after the experts are finished talking.
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Show everyone’s ideas
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Add problem
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Idea
Author
Vote
Focus for sprint
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Conversions on our landing page are low
Buck Dubois
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Our signup flow has too many steps
Felix Marlin
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Page load time is slow
Lola Tseudonym
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Next up:
Sketch
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Instructions
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What we’re focused on
Problems with that flow
Next up: Sketch
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