Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products

With more than 500 new apps entering the market every day, what does it take to build a successful digital product? You can greatly reduce your risk of failure with design sprints, a process that enables your team to prototype and test a digital product idea within a week. This practical guide shows you exactly what a design sprint involves and how you can incorporate the process into your organization.

Design sprints not only let you test digital product ideas before you pour too many resources into a project, they also help everyone get on board—whether they’re team members, decision makers, or potential users. You’ll know within days whether a particular product idea is worth pursuing.

Design sprints enable you to:

• Clarify the problem at hand, and identify the needs of potential users
• Explore solutions through brainstorming and sketching exercises
• Distill your ideas into one or two solutions that you can test
• Prototype your solution and bring it to life
• Test the prototype with people who would use it

• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
• Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
• Beyond The Prototype: A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes.
• Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
• The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems
• Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
• Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation
• Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams
• The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback