What is a Design Sprint?

A design sprint involves gathering a team of designers and other specialists in the field of your product idea, to come together and spend a set amount of time (usually one week) investigating, conceptualising, developing, prototyping and testing solutions to a pre-set design problem

The process of a design sprint involves rapidly progressing through multiple stages of the design process, while skipping time consuming and costly stages such as building and launching a final product. This allows the team to quickly progress to the learning stage of the design process, in order to draw conclusions on product ideas to better inform the design project going forward.

What are the benefits of a Design Sprint?

A design sprint can allow you to drastically cut down the weeks / months spent at the beginning of a project debating different ideas & solutions into a single week. By involving a team of people, working collaboratively, a range of ideas and concepts can be rapidly created, critiqued, filtered down, prototyped and tested. It is also a great way to quickly understand the feasibility of the design problem you are trying to tackle, the problems you may face along the way, the existing solutions that are out there, and why they do or don’t work.

Organising A Design Sprint

At Form Lab, we have the ability to organise, run and manage a design sprint for your product idea. We can help plan and run the event, aid in finding the right people to take part with the best knowledge for your design problem, and we have access to rapid prototyping tools such as 3D printers.