Transform Months of Uncertainty Into Five Days of Progress
When big decisions need user validation but time is limited, a structured sprint compresses the discovery process into focused, productive days.
Back to HomeFrom Big Questions to Validated Answers
This sprint gives you clarity before committing significant development resources. In five intensive days, your team moves from problem definition through ideation and prototyping to actual user validation.
You'll know whether your concept resonates with users, what works about your approach, and what needs rethinking. This evidence-based foundation prevents costly development of features users don't want or can't use effectively.
What You'll Achieve
- A tested prototype showing whether your concept works for real users
- Clear direction for development backed by user feedback, not assumptions
- Team alignment from working intensively toward a shared goal
- Confidence in next steps because you've seen users interact with your idea
The Transformation
Monday Morning
Big questions about whether your concept will work. Uncertainty about which direction to pursue. Concern about investing resources in the wrong approach.
Friday Afternoon
Concrete evidence from real users about what works and what doesn't. Clear next steps grounded in actual behavior. Excitement about building something people genuinely want.
When Speed and Validation Both Matter
You're facing an important product decision where both getting it right and moving quickly matter. Traditional approaches don't provide the speed or validation you need.
The Risk of Building Wrong
Your team could spend months building something only to discover users don't want it, can't understand it, or prefer their current solution. The cost isn't just wasted development time but lost opportunity to build something that actually works.
Without user validation, you're essentially gambling. Smart people make educated guesses, but educated guesses still fail when they meet real user behavior. You need evidence before committing to a full build.
The Pressure of Time
Market windows close. Competitors move. Stakeholders need answers. Traditional user research timelines of weeks or months don't fit your reality. You need insights quickly, but not at the expense of quality.
The temptation is to skip validation entirely and just start building. That feels faster but usually ends up slower when you factor in the pivots and rework that happen after launch when reality hits.
The Alignment Challenge
Different stakeholders have different visions for the solution. Getting everyone aligned through normal meeting processes takes forever. Meanwhile, the team doesn't know what to build because leadership hasn't reached consensus.
You need a way to quickly converge on a direction that everyone can support. Endless debate isn't productive, but neither is top-down decisions that ignore important perspectives. There has to be a better way to reach shared understanding.
The Resource Question
Development capacity is finite. Committing it to the wrong features means opportunity cost of what you're not building. You need confidence that what you're building deserves those resources over other possible initiatives.
Budget conversations about new features are difficult when you can't demonstrate value beforehand. A prototype tested with real users provides much more compelling justification than a specification document and assumptions.
These tensions between speed, validation, alignment, and resource constraints create paralysis. Design sprints resolve them by providing a structured way to make rapid progress while maintaining rigor around user validation.
Five Days, Clear Answers
The design sprint framework provides a proven structure for moving from problem to tested solution in one intensive week.
Understanding the Challenge
We start by building shared understanding of the problem space. Your team maps the user journey, identifies the most critical moment to focus on, and sets a clear sprint goal that everyone commits to.
Expert interviews with team members surface crucial knowledge that's often siloed. The designer knows one thing, the developer another, the product manager a third. This day brings all that expertise into the open where everyone benefits.
Why this matters: Without shared understanding, the team builds different things. This alignment prevents wasted effort later when everyone's working from the same map.
Day One Activities
- • Sprint goal definition and success criteria
- • User journey mapping from start to finish
- • Expert interviews with key team members
- • Problem area identification and prioritization
- • Target selection for the week's focus
Day Two Activities
- • Lightning demos of inspiring solutions
- • Individual sketch sessions generating options
- • Crazy 8s rapid ideation exercises
- • Solution sketch refinement and documentation
- • Anonymous presentation of all concepts
Generating Possibilities
Now that everyone understands the problem, we generate potential solutions. Each person works independently to sketch ideas, ensuring diverse approaches rather than groupthink convergence.
The structured sketching process helps even non-designers contribute meaningfully. Time constraints prevent overthinking while encouraging bold ideas. By day's end, you have multiple distinct solution approaches to evaluate.
The advantage: Working individually first generates more varied solutions than brainstorming together. The best idea often comes from an unexpected source when everyone contributes.
Choosing the Path Forward
With multiple solution concepts on the table, the team evaluates and selects which approach to prototype. A structured voting process surfaces the strongest ideas while the decision-maker makes the final call.
The selection criteria balance user value, feasibility, and alignment with business goals. You're not choosing what to build permanently, but what to test first. This reduces pressure while maintaining rigor.
Decision clarity: The structured process prevents endless debate while ensuring all perspectives inform the choice. Everyone understands why this direction was selected.
Day Three Activities
- • Solution presentation and critique session
- • Dot voting to surface promising directions
- • Decision-maker selection of concept to prototype
- • Storyboard creation showing user journey
- • Prototype planning and task assignment
Day Four Activities
- • Realistic prototype development in parallel
- • Asset creation for key screens and flows
- • Content writing for interface elements
- • Assembly into testable interactive prototype
- • Interview script preparation for testing
Building to Test
The team creates a realistic prototype that users can interact with. This isn't production code but a facade that feels real enough to provoke genuine reactions. The focus is on the critical user journey identified earlier.
Team members work in parallel on different aspects while we coordinate assembly. By day's end, you have something testable that looks and feels like a real product, created in a single day rather than weeks of development.
The key insight: You don't need a real product to learn whether users want it. A well-crafted prototype provides 80% of the learning at 5% of the effort.
Learning From Real Users
Five users interact with your prototype while the team observes. We conduct structured interviews that reveal not just whether they like it, but how they think about the problem and whether your solution actually helps.
Patterns emerge quickly across interviews. By the third or fourth participant, you'll see which aspects work and which confuse users. The team watches together, making the learning collective rather than secondhand through a researcher's summary.
The validation: Real user behavior beats opinions. When you see five people struggle with the same element, you know it needs rethinking regardless of internal debates.
Day Five Activities
- • Five one-on-one user testing sessions
- • Team observation and note-taking throughout
- • Pattern identification across participants
- • Results synthesis and key findings documentation
- • Next steps planning based on validation learnings
What Makes This Process Work
Time Constraints
Strict time limits prevent overthinking and analysis paralysis. The deadline pressure actually improves decision quality by forcing focus on what truly matters.
Individual Work
Periods of solo work prevent groupthink while ensuring diverse perspectives. The best ideas often come from the quieter team members who get space to contribute.
User Testing
Validation with real users on day five ensures concepts are grounded in actual behavior rather than team assumptions about what users want.
Expert Facilitation
Having someone guide the process lets your team focus on the problem rather than managing activities and time. We've run this enough times to navigate common pitfalls.
Your Sprint Experience
From preparation through testing, here's what participating in a design sprint feels like.
Pre-Sprint Preparation (Two Weeks Before)
We work with you to define the sprint challenge, identify the right participants, and handle logistics. You'll gather any existing research or context that helps the team hit the ground running on day one.
Participant selection matters. You need decision-making authority, diverse expertise, and people who can commit to the full week. We help identify the right mix.
The Sprint Week (Five Full Days)
Your team works together from 10 AM to 5 PM each day. The schedule is structured but flexible enough to adjust based on what emerges. Regular breaks keep energy high. Lunch is provided so the team stays together and conversations continue.
Participants describe the week as exhausting but energizing. The focused intensity creates momentum that regular work schedules rarely achieve.
User Recruitment (During Week)
While the team works on days one through four, we recruit five participants who match your target user profile. We handle scheduling, screening, and logistics so your team can focus on the sprint activities.
Finding the right participants quickly is challenging but essential. Our experience and networks make this happen reliably even on short notice.
Testing Day Experience (Friday)
The team observes user sessions from a separate room via video feed. You'll see real people interact with your prototype, struggle with certain elements, succeed with others. The patterns become undeniable by the third interview.
This shared observation is powerful. When everyone sees the same user behavior, debates about what works dissolve into productive discussion about how to improve.
Sprint Synthesis (End of Friday)
After testing, we synthesize learnings and discuss next steps. The conversation is grounded in evidence you just witnessed together. Decisions about how to move forward feel clear rather than contentious.
You'll leave knowing whether to build this concept, what to change first, or whether to pivot to a different approach. That clarity is the sprint's ultimate value.
Post-Sprint Documentation (One Week)
We deliver comprehensive documentation including the prototype, test findings, synthesis of learnings, and recommended next steps. Everything is packaged for sharing with stakeholders who weren't present during the sprint.
The documentation serves as both record and communication tool. It helps you build internal support for the direction validated during the sprint.
What Participants Experience
During the Sprint
- Intensity from focused work without normal interruptions
- Excitement as the concept takes shape quickly
- Nervousness before user testing begins
After the Sprint
- Clarity about direction backed by user evidence
- Confidence in next steps from shared experience
- Stronger team bonds from intense collaboration
Comprehensive Pricing
One all-inclusive investment covering preparation, facilitation, testing, and documentation.
Complete Five-Day Design Sprint
What's Included
- Pre-sprint consultation and planning
- Five full days of expert facilitation
- All materials and supplies provided
- Lunch provided daily for the team
- User recruitment and screening
- Five user testing sessions
- Interactive prototype for testing
- Comprehensive sprint documentation
Why This Investment Makes Sense
Compare the cost of this sprint to months of development on features users don't want. Or the opportunity cost of delayed launches while teams debate direction. Five days and €8,600 provides clarity that prevents far more expensive mistakes.
Organizations tell us the sprint often pays for itself by preventing just one wrong feature from being built or by accelerating time-to-market on validated concepts.
Team Requirements
The sprint works best with 5-7 participants who can commit to the full week. This typically includes a decision-maker, designer, developers, product manager, and domain experts relevant to the challenge.
We help identify the right team composition during pre-sprint planning to ensure diverse perspectives without becoming unwieldy.
Payment Terms
50% deposit reserves your sprint dates, with remainder due at sprint start. We're flexible with organizational payment requirements if you need adjusted invoicing schedules.
EU businesses can provide VAT numbers for reverse charge mechanism where applicable.
What Sprint Success Looks Like
Success means having user-validated direction and the confidence to move forward with implementation.
Immediate Sprint Outcomes
By Friday Evening
- Tested prototype demonstrating concept viability
- Clear user feedback about what works and what doesn't
- Team consensus on next steps
- Documented patterns from user testing
Within One Week
- Comprehensive sprint documentation delivered
- Stakeholder-ready presentation materials
- Prioritized recommendations for implementation
- Video highlights from user testing sessions
Post-Sprint Timeline
The sprint provides direction, but implementation depends on your team's capacity and priorities. Here's what organizations typically experience:
Weeks After Sprint
Teams typically begin development on validated concepts. The prototype and user feedback guide implementation decisions. Having seen user reactions together, the team moves forward with shared conviction.
Months After Sprint
First versions reach users. The sprint's insights continue informing decisions as edge cases and additional requirements emerge during development.
Months After Sprint
Teams report that the sprint methodology influences how they approach other challenges. The structured process becomes a reference point for future product decisions.
What Makes Sprints Effective
Our Facilitation
- • Managing time and activities so team focuses on content
- • Navigating group dynamics and keeping energy high
- • Recruiting and screening quality test participants
- • Conducting user interviews that reveal genuine insights
- • Synthesizing learnings into actionable recommendations
Your Team's Commitment
- • Full week availability from all participants
- • Openness to following the structured process
- • Willingness to defer to user feedback
- • Decision-maker present to make calls
- • Acting on insights after the sprint concludes
Sprint With Confidence
We want you to feel assured about dedicating a week to this intensive process.
Our Sprint Commitment
If the sprint doesn't produce useful insights that inform your next steps, we'll work with you to make it right. This might mean additional consultation, revised documentation, or other appropriate solutions.
Expert Guidance
We've facilitated dozens of sprints and know how to navigate challenges that emerge.
Quality Participants
We recruit test users who genuinely match your target profile, not just anyone available.
Actionable Output
Documentation provides clear next steps, not just a summary of what happened.
Pre-Sprint Consultation
Before you commit, we discuss your challenge to ensure a sprint is the right approach. Sometimes another method would serve you better, and we'll be honest about that rather than selling you something that doesn't fit.
This consultation is free and comes with no obligation. We'd rather help you find the right solution than convince you to do a sprint when it's not appropriate.
Flexible Adaptation
While we follow the proven sprint structure, we adapt activities based on what emerges. If something isn't working, we adjust rather than rigidly sticking to a script when flexibility would serve better.
Our experience helps us know when to follow the process and when to deviate. The goal is insights, not perfect adherence to methodology.
What We Don't Promise
Realistic expectations about what one week can accomplish:
- Production-ready product at week's end
- Solving every aspect of a complex problem
- Guaranteed positive user feedback
- Implementation without team effort
What we do provide is a structured process, expert facilitation, and validated learning about whether your concept works. The hard work of implementation remains yours.
Your Path to Sprint Week
From initial conversation to validated prototype, here's how we get there together.
Initial Contact
Reach out through the form below or email info@domain.com. Describe your challenge and what you're trying to accomplish. Even a brief overview helps us understand if a sprint makes sense.
Sprint Assessment Call
We'll schedule a video consultation to discuss your challenge in detail. This helps us understand whether a sprint is the right approach and, if so, how to frame the sprint goal for maximum value.
Sprint Planning
If we proceed, we'll work together on logistics: identifying participants, selecting dates, arranging space, and framing the challenge. This preparation ensures the sprint week is productive from day one.
Sprint Week
Your team commits to five intensive days of structured problem-solving. By Friday afternoon, you'll have tested a prototype with real users and know whether your concept works as intended.
What Happens After Contact
Expect a response within 24 hours on business days. We'll suggest times for an initial call and ask a few clarifying questions about your challenge. The conversation feels exploratory and low-pressure.
Turn Your Challenge Into Validated Direction
One week. One focused challenge. Real user validation. Stop debating and start learning what actually works.
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