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How to Use This Kit

The Design Sprint Kit is an open-source resource for design leaders, product owners, developers or anyone who is learning about or running Design Sprints. Whether you are new to Design Sprints and gaining buy in for your first Sprint, or an experienced Sprint facilitator looking for new methods, this site will help you learn, plan, and contribute to the Design Sprint Methodology.

What’s a Design Sprint?

The Design Sprint is a proven methodology for solving problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users. Design Sprints quickly align teams under a shared vision with clearly defined goals and deliverables. Ultimately, it is a tool for developing a hypothesis, prototyping an idea, and testing it rapidly with as little investment as possible in as real an environment as possible.

Where does it come from

The Design Sprint methodology was developed at Google from a vision to grow UX culture and the practice of design leadership across the organization. Multiple teams within Google experimented with different methods from traditional UX practice, IDEO, the Stanford dSchool, business strategy, and even psychology, applying them to support divergent and convergent thinking with teams. The resulting framework and set of methods is flexible, and teams are continuing to adapt it based on different goals and organizational cultures.

This Design Sprint Kit aims to share this flexible model created for internal Google teams, while also acting as a methods repository for the design and product development community. It includes a range of different approaches to driving clear outcomes for a team, and we look forward to seeing this collection grow over time.

The Sprint book published by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky while at Google Ventures is also a great way to get started with their model, optimized for startups. They provide easy checklists for running their 5 day Sprint and we recommend you pick up a copy and try it out. But most importantly, develop your own perspective and methods and share them with us!