The Design Sprint
A fast tracked, 1 week long programme in which the Buuuk team collaborates with other product teams to help them discover & test solutions to their product problems.
Day 1: Kick off
- Brief everyone on the goals of the programme
- Talk in detail about the project intent, target audience & create 2-3 user personas
- Presentations: pre researched presentations by the product team & Buuuk
Day 2: Ideation
- Sketch basic user stories & journeys (flow charts)
- Discuss potential solutions & shortlist the main ones to test
- Create high level wireframes for the main module
- Review wireframes & tweak if needed
Day 3: Prototyping
- Buuuk team will prepare high fidelity prototypes of the main flows for 3 solutions
Day 4: User Testing
- Buuuk team test the prototypes with real people. The sessions can be recorded if feasible
Day 5: Analysis & Wrap-up
- Buuuk team will present a quick analysis of the testing
- Converge on 1 idea and set direction for the product UI creation
- Use time left to create a few sample design elements if possible
The setup
- 2 designers from Buuuk + …
- … all stakeholders who have control over product direction
- The problems & ideas come from the client
- Recommended team size 5—10 (we encourage tech team members to be present as well)
- End deliverables are tested ideas & UX. There is no UI deliverable in this sprint.
- We recommend a 1 day pre-sprint prep (we will give guidance for the prep)