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At The Sprint Agency we guide companies through the process of Design Sprints & Design Thinking projects, to create future proof products, platforms and services. 
(also remotely)

The Sprint Agency

Clients 

Over the last 7 years we have facilitated more than 225+ Design Sprints and had the pleasure to help many companies with their innovation challenges on longer term Design Thinking projects

Green Choice
Maker McKenzie
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And proud Design Sprint facilitation contributor to our innovation partner oneUp & clients: 

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What is Design Thinking?

In a nutshell, Design thinking is an approach to problem-solving that focuses on understanding user needs, generating creative ideas, and testing solutions through experimentation. It involves empathizing with users to gain insights, ideating to generate a range of possible solutions, and prototyping to refine and improve ideas. Ultimately, it aims to create innovative solutions that effectively address the challenges faced by users.

 How it looks like in real life 

"The Design Sprint gives you a super-power:

You can fast-forward into the future to see -and test the finished product with real customers, before making any expensive commitments." 
Jake Knapp - Google Ventures, writer of the book Sprint

1. Problem Framing

What is the problem for who and why? That is the starting point before we kick off any Design Sprint.

2. practical preparations

Before we start the sprint we need to discuss who the sprint team will be, where the location will be and other practicalities before we can get started.

3. Running the DESIGN Sprint

All preparations are done, our challenge is clear and we're now ready to kick off our Design Sprint! 

4. Next steps

After the Design Sprint, we have a lot of new insights and a tested prototype, which is a solid base to build on further. Depending on the outcome we help you with setting up the next steps like validation, building your MVP and going live with a soft launch. 

How it works

Create, prototype, test & validate the solution to your biggest future business challenges in just 5 days 

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The 5-Day Design Sprint Program

DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

DAY 5

TEST

 Finally we will test it with real customers

CONVERGE

Select best solutions to move forward with

BUILD

Build a prototype of our new product / service

UNDERSTAND

Clarify and focus on the problem to solve

DIVERGE

Generate solutions to the problem

The Design Sprint, is a 5-day process to create products, services and business concepts, through design, prototyping, and testing with your actual customers. 

It combines strategy, innovation, UX, concept creation, design, lean development, design thinking and more.

 

By working together in a sprint, you can shortcut endless debate cycles and compress months of work into a single week. Instead of waiting to launch a minimal product to understand if an idea is any good. We’ll gather clear insights by testing the prototype with actual users or customers on the 5th day. 

The Design Sprint gives a super-power: You can fast-forward into the future to see and test the finished product with real customers, before making any expensive commitments. 

Sprint programs

The Sprint Agency

Design Sprint: 

Facilitator & Designer

Running a full design sprint with your team requires a facilitator to guide the process and a designer who will be able to build the prototype. 

What you get: 

- All preparations & meetings

- The 4-hour problem framing kick off

- Online tools & materials

- Facilitator & designer 

- A clickable prototype 

- Usability testing 

- Report out deck 

The Sprint Agency

Design Sprint: 

Facilitator only

In case your company already has a designer with prototyping skills to join the sprint team, we can offer you an experienced facilitator to guide the sprint team during the week.

What you get:

- All preparations & meetings

- The 4-hour problem framing kick off

- Online tools & materials

- Facilitator 

- A clickable prototype 

- Usability testing 

- Report out deck 

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Quick prototyping: 

Facilitator + Designer

In case your company already has a concept in mind and wishes to develop this into a prototype, we advise you to choose the 3-day prototyping session. The facilitator will guide the prototyping process and the designer will make sure your vision comes to life in a clickable prototype, which we will test with actual customers / users. 

What you get:

- All preparations & meetings

- Facilitator & Designer

- A clickable prototype 

- Usability testing 

The Sprint Agency helped us with a Design Sprint for our new platform product. I highly recommend this agency if you want a fast and creative execution. Fantastic work! Thank you!

David Wenk - ThinkProject

Deliverables of the Design Sprint 

1. Validated problem / challenge definition
2. Validated customer segment 
3. Vision + mission statement 
4. FINALISED prototype 
5. Customer insights 
6. Stakeholder pitch deck 
7. Clear focus on next steps
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Lonneke Boonzaaijer

Corporate Innovator,
Venture Builder &
Design Thinking Expert

A message from the Founder

It is a pleasure to meet you.

Since 20 years of experience in startup -scale-up and strategic corporate innovation, we have wrapped up our learnings and lessons to guide and facilitate our clients through the complex webs of product development. 

 

We use proven and robust innovation methodologies like Design Thinking, Design Sprints, Lean Startup, and Blue Ocean strategies.

Want to learn more? 

Please feel free to reach out! 

Services

Applying the Design Thinking principles is not always a 'one size fits all' solution, therefore we provide programs, as well as a variety of fixed design sprint programs

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