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UX & product design 

# What is Design sprint?

A design sprint is an intensive, several-day process (classically 5 days) in which a team goes from problem to a user-tested prototype of a solution – without months of meetings and documents.

The format developed at Google Ventures compresses a typical product process: **Monday:** understand the problem and pick the target; **Tuesday:** sketch solutions; **Wednesday:** decide and storyboard; **Thursday:** build a realistic prototype; **Friday:** test with five users.

A sprint shines when the stakes are high and the team is going in circles: a new product, a key feature, a strategic direction. The output is not a finished product but a verified decision – knowing whether the idea carries, before it consumes the budget.

We use sprint elements in our product workshops: condensed work with decision-makers in one room achieves more in a week than a quarter of emails.

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## Related terms

- [MVP (minimum viable product)](https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/mvp/)
- [Prototype](https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/prototype/)
- [Usability testing](https://sweetlava.eu/en/glossary/usability-testing/)

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