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Wow! What a great conference 2 packed days of learning and networking, The team at The Familiar are still buzzing from the LAG21 experience. We were involved as sponsors, participants and producers and enjoyed the experience immensely.
In this series, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
Taking place the morning after your four-part sketches, the Sticky Decision activity is actually made up of 5 sub-activities to get your Sprint Team to decide on which areas you’ve covered in your ideas to take to prototyping - all in just 90 minutes.
In this series of articles, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
The Sketch Series focusses on the “Four-Part Sketch” Design Sprint activity. Today, we’re taking a look at the last of these parts, with the Concept Sketch.
In this series of articles, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
This week we continue the “Four-Part Sketch” Design Sprint activity. Today, we’re taking a look at the penultimate one of these activities, Active Eights.
In this series of articles, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
This week we we continue the “Four-Part Sketch” Design Sprint activity. Today, we’re taking a look at the second of these parts, Idea Sketching.
In this series of articles, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
Now we begin a series of articles about the “Four-Part Sketch” Design Sprint activity. Today, we’re taking a look at the first of these four parts, Note Taking.
In this series of articles, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
By the end of today, which will be a short one, we’ll know when we should divide or when we should swarm around a problem to come up with and sketch out ideas.
In this series of articles, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
In today’s part, we take a look at Lightning Demos and how they can help your team level up their knowledge on the problems and solutions you’re considering, whilst building up knowledge together.
In this series, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
After all of the preparatory work we’ve done so far - from Before the Sprint, Mapping Journeys, Asking the Experts and taking notes - it’s time for the Sprint Team and the Decider to work together to lock down the Sprint Target.
In this series, we’re taking a look at the individual parts which make up a Design Sprint, how each part helps us work towards a user-tested prototype, and how you can use the activity on its own within your business’s Design-led decision making process.
Today, we take a look at the How Might We questions exercise that takes place during Ask the Experts, and how it helps you and your Design Sprint Team reframe incoming information as questions you can answer during the Design Sprint.