What Is design Sprint?

A time bound process, with five phases typically spread over five full 8 hours days.

Goals

Solve a critical design challenge through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users.

Benefits

Save time

With a sprint, your team can cut the decision-making process down from several months to a single week.

Create a path to bring a product to market

Sprint also create an effective path to bring a product to market.

Prioritize the users

Prioritize the user, putting their needs front and center.

Test Product before launch

Sprints allow you to fast forward into the future to test your product and get customer reactions before making any expensive decision.

Running a design sprint is like using a superpower. With all these benefits, you'd think every product team would want to run design sprints, but that's not always the case.

Before launching into a design you need to review your design challenge and ask yourself these key questions:

1. When to sprint Many potential solutions to challenge?
2. Cross-functional team needed to weigh in?
3. challenge scope wide enough?

If you answered yes to any one of these question, a design sprint might be the right move.

5 phases to design sprint

• Understand-> The Scope of the design challenge.
• Ideate->Possible solutions.
• Decide-> The most viable solution.
• Prototype-> Create a workable prototype.
• Test-> Test that porotype with actual users.

Inshallah, I will discuss the design sprint phases in detail in my next post.

Hope this article was helpful for UI/UX beginners.

If you have any questions or need more help, feel free to ask!