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DESIGN SPRINTS

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We help companies innovate their products, faster.

Need to accelerate a big project or solve a challenging problem?

Design Sprints

Design Sprints compress months of work into just four (4) days.

There’s a reason why the biggest companies in the world - like United Nations, Google, Facebook, Lufthansa, Apple & Slack - use Design Sprints.

Design Sprints are a proven methodology that provide a structured process to define challenges, design solutions, develop high-fidelity interactive prototypes and test these against real users to validate ideas - all in under a week!

What is a Design Sprint?

A Design Sprint is a structured step-by-step system for innovating & testing products as a team in one week.

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A Design Sprint compresses months of product development into a concise four-day process. Design Sprints cut the fat out of the standard design process to launch products faster so you can learn from real user data, not guesswork.

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Design Sprints are now used by the worlds leading companies to rapidly innovate and iterate new products – including websites, software, applications, physical products, big challenges, and more.

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Design Sprints were invented out of Google in 2011 by a (then) Google employee, Jake Knapp, who realised there must be a better way.

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Design Sprints are the fastest way to find out if your product is worth developing, if a feature is worth the effort, or if your value proposition is valid.

Design Sprints Calendar

Don’t invest months of your time. Invest a week.

Design Sprints facilitate expedited solution design, rapid prototyping and real-user testing. Design and feedback loops are dramatically compressed, meaning months of design and testing can be validated by real-users within just days.

What does a Design Sprint look like?

The Design Sprint is a 4-day intensive.

On Day 1 we work with you to define the challenges and scope for the week. On Day 2 we prioritise and decide what challenges to prototype. On Day 3 we rapidly build a high-fidelity prototype, which is then tested with real users on Day 4.

Clients In-House

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Day 1

Define the challenges.

Produce a mass of solutions.

Clients In-House

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Day 2

Curate and vote on best solutions.

Define the prototype with a story board.

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Day 3

Build the prototype.

Set up the user tests.

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Day 4

Test the prototype with real users.

Use feedback from testing to create clear next steps.

Clients In-House

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Day 1

Define the challenges.

Produce a mass of solutions.

Clients In-House

experience-2 Image

Day 2

Curate and vote on best solutions.

Define the prototype with a story board.

Clients In-House

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Day 3

Build the prototype.

Set up the user tests.

Clients In-House

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Day 4

Test the prototype with real users.

Use feedback from testing to create clear next steps.

Design Sprints

What to expect from a Design Sprint.

The outcome of every Design Sprint Week is a high-fidelity interactive prototype, tested by real users, with clear insights on where to go next.

This is not a wireframe or a paper prototype. It looks and feels like a real product.

With your prototype in-hand and armed with real user insights, decisions on how to advance your idea become crystal clear.

You can then use a second sprint to iterate and polish your idea, bringing it close to production-readiness, or use the prototype to sell the idea further and develop the concept.

Who are Design Sprints relevant for?

Design Sprints are just as relevant for startups as Fortune 500’s; maybe even more so! Design Sprints yield results fast. They expedite products to market, resolve complex problems and overcome design creep. If you’re innovating a new product or service, or need to find a solution to a complex problem, a Design Sprint may be the answer!

Cut out th efat diagrams

Traditional design workflows are inherently full of fat - ineffective and costly waste that slow design, destroy morale and innovation, and impede customer-centric solutions.

Design Sprints break down hierarchies and garner team energy and creativity to yield powerful, validated solutions.

By compressing months (or even years) of design and production time into a week, Design Sprints advance ideas rapidly, saving you an enormous amount of time and investment. And by rapidly bringing prototypes to market, yield on opportunity is maximised.

Design Sprints in action

Greenhat is one of Australia’s leading Design Sprint agencies. By working with Greenhat, you can be confident you’re plugging into an experienced, well-oiled agency that will optimise your outcomes.

Recurring Revenue Business.

We worked with Mental Health Academy (MHA) to build Australia’s leading professional development platform for mental health practitioners. MHA had idea overload. Progress was being stifled by wanting to bring too many ideas to life at the same time. By utilising Design Sprint methodology, we helped MHA streamline their focus on their core product, validated it with genuine customers, and achieved a substantial product advancement that had previously remained dormant for 18 months, all within an 8-week timeframe.

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Business eCoaching Platform.

Leveraging the power of Design Sprints, we were able to identify and prioritise customer-centric features for the B-Tribe platform, conduct real-world testing, and rapidly iterate towards a desirable product that customers were willing to pay for. This approach yielded impressive results, with over 6,000 Small to Medium Business registrations achieved within the first 3-months.

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Innovation Product Launch.

Utilising Design Sprint methodology for an online business dedicated to creating psychologically healthy workplaces, we developed multiple high-fidelity prototypes and tested them with genuine customers until the final product was refined and ready for launch. By incorporating valuable user feedback into our design process, we were able to expedite the initial product launch and significantly reduce what would have been a lengthy and costly operations and product development timeline.

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Customer-centric Perspective.

Greenhat worked with Natural Chemist to upgrade and streamline their outdated and cumbersome eCommerce store, leading to a significant enhancement in the overall customer journey and user experience. The online store's new design enabled customers to easily find the products they needed, book consultations at their natural health clinic and provide a seamless integration with the Natural Script tool for practitioners to manage patient prescriptions and orders more efficiently.

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What should Design Sprints be used for?

Design Sprints are ideal for any project. Design Sprints compress projects that would normally take months (or years), into just 4-days. Importantly, Design Sprints test solutions with real customers, providing immediate market-facing feedback. At the end of the 4 days, you’ll have a high fidelity prototype tested with real customers, and a clear path forward. Design Sprints are ideal for:

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Website & software development and improvement

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Application (Apps) development

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Physical product innovation, development and testing

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Solving complex challenges and problems

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Improving business systems and processes

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Advertising and marketing campaign design

Get in touch.

Greenhat can help you create an outstanding product, in record time, with mitigated risk. Whether you need to create a new product from scratch, improve an existing product or give your team an innovative kick, we have you covered. To know more, please request a consultation by completing this form:

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