From business challenge to validated solution in as little as 5 days…

What is a Design Sprint?

The Design Sprint is a step-by-step process to help you rapidly design and test solutions to any business problem. Bring your teams and key decision-makers together at the start of a big project, play with solutions, create a prototype and test it with real users. It’s an iterative, logical, plug-and-play process proven to help companies innovate fast. 

Complete your in-person Design Sprint over five days or work remotely over two weeks.

“The best part is getting the whole team in one room on the same level of focus and attention, being marshalled by a facilitator.“

WhatWeWant

How it works

The Design Sprint process can happen in person over 5 days, or remotely over two weeks. Design Sprints happen over five phases.

“Your team is vibrant! The sessions have been quite vigorous. This makes me confident that we will get the right product from these exercises.”

— TV7

What can you achieve with a Design Sprint?

Some of our Sprint stories…

  • ITV had a new product idea and wanted to see if contractors would use it.

    Our Design Sprint helped them visualise and validate their idea, which in this case they decided not to proceed with.

  • WhatWeWant needed to better explain their proposition, in order to acquire more customers.

    Our Design Sprint helped them redesign both their onboarding and gifting process.

  • TV7 needed to test their new product idea.

    Our Design Sprint helped them validate their idea and provided them with a prototype to show investors when raising funding.

 FAQs

  • Design Sprints can be used to solve a range of problems: from improving the user experience of a website, to creating brand new products that solve specific problems, to finding ways to improve team collaboration and employee experience.

    Design Sprints are also a great way to approach the bigger and riskier problems faced by companies – even when you have no idea what the solution might be! By getting everyone together in the same room and breaking down creative boundaries, you’d be surprised how quickly you find solutions to your biggest challenges.

    Get in touch to find out how the Design Sprint could solve your business challenge.

  • Absolutely!

    Design Sprints are designed to be completed in as little as five days, which can be a huge advantage for big companies where key decision makers are rarely in the same room.

  • There are many benefits to using a Design Sprint, these include:

    1. Speed: The Design Sprint is designed to be completed in five days, which can be a big advantage for businesses looking to solve problems quickly.

    2. Collaboration: Design Sprints bring people together from different departments and teams, helping to break down silos and improve communication.

    3. Creativity: Interactive workshops encourage creativity and innovation, helping teams come up with new and innovative solutions.

    4. Decision-making: The Design Sprint can help teams make better decisions by providing them with a clear understanding of the problem, a variety of potential solutions, and feedback from users.

  • All your key decision makers will need to be present for two 3-hour workshops during phases 1 and 2. This is where your teams align on the problem at hand and agree on a solution. From then on, we’ll take charge of transforming your solution into a working reality.

  • We run two versions of a Design Sprint: 'Design Sprint' and ‘Design Sprint Plus':

    The Design Sprint costs a flat £25k and gives you a report with designs for your working solution.

    Meanwhile, the Design Sprint Plus costs £50k and gives you a full working prototype, plus access to all the design files at the end of the sprint.

    These prices may vary slightly for in-person Sprints, as there are some logistical costs associated. Drop us a message for details!

Start your own Design Sprint today. Get in touch with 100 Shapes and discover just how easy problem-solving can be.