A Design Sprint is a 4-day hackathon for crafting new products, improving existing ones, and tackling hard challenges with design thinking. It helps teams make tangible progress in days instead of months.
The biggest risk when launching new products and features is wasting time and money building something nobody wants. Design Sprints help teams clearly define goals and validate assumptions before starting development. Our clients love Design Sprints because it helps them innovate and move forward with confidence.
At DXLabs, we’ve used Design Sprints to launch innovative products and services with successful startups like Precision Hawk (Raised $130M+), Local Motion (Acquired by ZipCar), Hashicorp (IPO), and corporations like Intel (Intel Insight), Lowe’s (Spatial Commerce), and Etsy.
A Design Sprint is a rapid process that takes place over 4 days. On Day 1 we work with your team to define and prioritize key challenges. Day 2 is about coming up with new solutions together, prioritizing them, and crafting an experiment. Day 3 is when the DXLabs team creates a high-fidelity prototype and Day 4 is when we test this prototype with your customers and determine next steps.
The output of a Design Sprint is a looks-like, work-like prototype that’s tested with real users. This prototype is high fidelity which allows us to get more realistic insights from user research giving everyone more confidence and alignment on what to do afterwards.
After a Design Sprint has ended, it’s important to keep the momentum going! Some organizations will do another Design Sprint to take their prototype to the next level, or work with DXLabs to pitch the idea and develop it internally.
We’re hackers, hustlers, and designers with a healthy disregard for the impossible. We have operational knowledge from building companies, managing product teams, and working at places like IDEO, NASA, and the Stanford d.school. Working with DXLabs allows you to plug into a network of some of the best designers in Silicon Valley.
CEO @ DXLabs, former aerospace engineer turned product designer, Co-Founder at Flux.ai, Design Partner at Singularity University
Educator at Stanford d.school. Design Strategist at Women's World Banking
Executive Director, Replenish Earth
Product and marketing consultant for GreenTech, B2B SaaS, and remote sensing. DroneDeploy, LinkedIn, Bizo
Founding team, knowledge sommelier @Singularity University
Futures researcher & futurist designer. Past clients include Microsoft, Google, Nike, Universal, DreamWorks, BBC, Telefonica, Tata, MTN
Product Designer, World Builder & Storyteller, Design Parter @DXLabs
Co-Founder and CEO at Helix Nanotechnologies, Science Fiction Author of The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince
Conceptual Designer @ DXLabs, Singularity University
Futurist, Product Designer, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Singularity University
Author, Founder, Chief Narrative Officer Spatial Shift and Back to Space
Creative Technologist, Tesla, Autodesk, IDEO Collab
Designer and Strategist in the Arts, Cultural Production, and Social Innovation sectors, Co-founder @ Nomadic Labs
