Design Sprint 2.0: Streamlined Process for Better Decisions

Key insights

• 🚀
  The design sprint is a step-by-step process that helps teams solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days, providing tangible results.
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  The four-day version of Design Sprint 2.0 requires the full team's presence only on Monday and Tuesday, making it a lower commitment while achieving the same amount of work.
• 📅
  The new design sprint schedule condenses map and sketch, storyboard, and prototype into separate days, allowing for a more streamlined and efficient process.
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  The morning session of Day 1 focuses on defining the challenge, while the afternoon session focuses on producing solutions.
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  The order of exercises in the Design Sprint 2.0 has been updated, with the map exercise now being done as the third exercise instead of the second.
• 💡
  The Design Sprint 2.0 process includes lightning demos, four-part sketching, and voting to generate concepts and solutions efficiently.
• 😬
  The worst thing that ever happened during a design sprint was when the founders of a team decided they didn't want to run the company anymore, but the sprint still managed to get back on track and launch the product.