This workshop is hosted by thoughtbot:

Whether you are trying to get your product to market, build a new feature, or validate a new service or business idea, running a design sprint is a proven process for getting you and your team there faster and smarter.

At thoughtbot, we've based our design sprints off of Google Ventures well documented process. A Product Design Sprint is a 5-phase exercise which uses design thinking to reduce the inherent risks in successfully bringing products to market. Participating in a Design Sprint orients the entire team and aims their efforts at hitting clearly defined goals.

We have been using design thinking and the design sprint process to help our clients become more successful at ideating, testing, and validating their products and new business ideas.

This workshop is for anyone wanting to know how to bring the design sprint process into their own organization.

What you will learn

When and why to run a design sprint

The people, room, and tools that you need to set one up
Define the problem, your assumptions, and the user’s critical path.
Generate insights and potential solutions to your customer’s problems.
Distill all the possible solutions into a single prototype and test plan.
Conduct user research interviews.

Who is thoughtbot?
thoughtbot is a consulting agency that helps design and build web and mobile applications. We offer user research, design sprints, and jobs-to-be-done to build successful products and solutions. We focus on simplicity and user outcomes.

We are almost 100 designers and developers in 7 offices around the world (Boston, San Francisco, New York, Raleigh, Austin, Washington, DC, and London). We’ve run over 150 Design Sprints for companies both large and small like Tile, Merck, MIT, Klarna, Code Climate, and Tropos, among many others.

For more information or learn more about thoughtbot go to http://thoughtbot.com

Get Your Sprint On: Leading a team through a design sprint (by thoughtbot)