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Design sprints

We use the power of design sprints to help product teams break the tyranny of "business as usual", explore the future and invent their next major product, service, or feature.
  • Viewpoint

Don’t do a design sprint. Unless…

It’s not just the 9.58 seconds of running fast that makes Usain Bolt a world champion sprinter. Similarly, a successful design sprint requires both a warm-up and a post-race plan.

Chris How

Chris How

  • Viewpoint

Season one of the Clearleft podcast

That's a wrap!

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

  • Tiny Lesson

Tiny Lesson: A postcard from the field

In this Tiny Lesson, we share how a project postcard can help navigate the recent move to more distributed teams.

Katie Wishlade

Katie Wishlade

  • Viewpoint

Debunking some design sprints myths

We regularly use design sprints to help clients to accelerate design, unblock problems and investigate new ideas. We’re big fans of design sprints when done well. However …

Chris How

Chris How

  • Viewpoint

Hack Week Vs Design Sprint?

I was in Geneva last week for a week of collaboration on an exciting project.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

  • Viewpoint

Five tips for designing successful business tools

A guide for designing successful business tools

Katie Wishlade

Katie Wishlade

  • Viewpoint

The unexpected benefits of design sprints

The act of running a design sprint provides a host of side-benefits you may not be expecting.

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter

  • Tiny Lesson

The Design Sprint Canvas

Even experienced facilitators can sometimes find it hard to stay on track during an intensive sprint, so we've put together the Design Sprint Canvas – a handy tool to help lead facilitators and Design Sprint participants through the process.

Ben White

Ben White

  • Viewpoint

The big idea – design sprints, Jake Knapp and key takeaways

Design sprints and the big idea. Something us designers are very familiar with. But is this approach widely understood?

Jerlyn Jareunpoon-Phillips

  • Viewpoint
  • News

Inside: the world of Jake Knapp

Design sprints, the London experience and solving big problems….

Alis Cox

Man and woman in office looking at wall of design sketches and journey maps
  • Case study

Southern Water Design Sprints

This is the story of how two designers at Clearleft re-designed a water bill (in a very short space of time!) so that customers could understand exactly what they’d been billed for, without the need to call up with questions.
A rollercoaster ride.
  • Case study

Attraction Tickets Direct Design Sprint

This is the story of how we worked with Attraction Tickets Direct to identify and fix issues in their checkout process, in just two weeks.
  • Viewpoint

Design Sprint Download: Jake Knapp for Clearleft Presents

We've been reflecting on our fantastic Clearleft Presents workshop with the king of design sprints, and all round great guy, Jake Knapp.

James Box

James Box

A group of people gathered around a table, sketching.
  • Case study

Virgin Holidays Design Sprints

This is the story of how we helped Virgin Holidays articulate a vision for the future, along with a stack of potential new product ideas, using design sprints.
  • Tiny Lesson

Design Sprints Done Right

Design sprints are a lot of fun and can be a great way for teams to swarm around a particular design problem - but they can also be exhausting! Here are some tips to get the most out of your next design sprint.

Andy Budd

A tablet showing a prototype for Suffolk Libraries.
  • Case study

Suffolk Libraries design sprint

This is the story of how we helped Suffolk Libraries prototype a digital self-service kiosk to help them improve customer service while saving money.
  • Viewpoint

Design sprinting

James and I went to Ipswich last week for work. But this wasn’t part of an ongoing project—this was a short intense one-week feasibility study.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

  • Viewpoint

A response to 'When Agile's not creative'

Some thoughts on 'When Agile's not creative'.

Clare Kirkland

A designer is wearing a bold patterned shirt and glasses. He is sitting with a woman with long dark hair. Both are smiling and looking at a screen on a desk. Two more laptop screens can be seen in the foreground while in the background is a blurred out studio office kitchen.

You’re unique

Which is why we prefer to tailor our approach specifically for you. Let’s discuss a collaborative partnership and how we can achieve the best outcomes together.

Richard Rutter
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Richard Rutter, Cofounder

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