Resources
Over the years we’ve collected and created lots of resources to help out with running or explaining a design sprint.
Software & Tools
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Miro
Tags WhiteboardPrototyping
Miro is a full-featured digital whiteboard, it can be used to run all kinds of design exercises, including design sprints. You also use it to build simple prototypes.
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FigJam
Tags WhiteboardPrototyping
FigJam by the same team as Figma, is another popular choice as a collaborative whiteboard for teams. It can also be used to build simple prototypes.
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Google Meet
Tags Video CallingUser Testing
The free version of Google Meet is great for communicating with the sprint team. The company tier includes screen recording and other features that are useful for user testing.
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Zoom
Tags Video CallingUser Testing
Zoom is another video conferencing app that is full of useful features for user testing, like recording and closed-captioning.
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Figma
Tags Prototyping
Figma is an excellent choice for building and testing prototypes, including high-fidelity prototypes with animation, video and audio.
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Webflow
Tags Prototyping
If you need to build a prototype quickly for the web, using HTML and CSS, Webflow is a great choice to move faster than hand-coding from scratch.
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usertesting.com
Tags User Testing
Sometimes it's difficult or time consuming to find users to test with, usertesting.com makes finding and testing with users easy, and almost completely automated.
Try out usertesting.com
Reading
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thoughtbot Blog
Tags Blog
Our very own blog that covers all topics on design and development. It's where we first started talking about design sprints back in 2013.
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SPRINT
Tags Book
Jake Knapp spent 10 years at Google and Google Ventures, where he created the Design Sprint process. This is the official guide to running a design sprint.
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Sprint Stories
Tags Blog
Sprint Stories is a blog of case studies covering design sprints from partners at Google Ventures. It's a great place to see the outcomes a design sprint can achieve.
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Gamestorming
Tags BookWiki
Gamestorming is a collection of exercises that are designed to help make decisions and solve problems. We often customise our sprints with some of these exercises.
Read Gamestorming
Templates
For more up-to-date schedule templates see our full list of Schedules
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Trello: thoughtbot flavour schedule
Tags TrelloSchedule
This classic 5-day sprint is based off some of the early sprint techniques by Google Ventures. Over the years we have tweaked and adapted the exercises and schedule.
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Trello: SPRINT book schedule
Tags TrelloSchedule
This classic 5-day sprint is based off the book Sprint, by Jake Knapp from Google Ventures.
Use Trello: SPRINT book schedule