The design sprint
Introduction:
The purpose of this design sprint, was to fall in love with an occurring global issue, which you feel most passionate about. You were then tasked to focus your time on finding a solution to this issue.
What is a design sprint?
A design sprint consists of generating creative ideas in a rapid amount of time, to keep new and creative ideas flowing. For example, we had to do many mini-tasks, in a short amount of time to come up with one topic and a solution. Keep in mind while doing this process, you must have “moonshot thinking” which basically consists of thinking 10x more critical than you usually would, to open up more possibilities.
Creative constraints:
Before we kicked off our journey into the design sprint, we were all asked about creative constraints. We were asked if you could be creative even if you had to work within certain constraints. For the most part we all said yes, but a few of us said you couldn’t. This design sprint really tested this theory, and either justified why you can, or can’t be creative within constraints.
What breaks your heart:
During this process, we were given 10 minutes to think of three ideas, which we knew needed further attention to find a solution. We were all given three sticky notes to write our real world problems on, and then we were told to categorize them up at the front of the room.
Mind Map/sketchnote:
This part of the design sprint required us to pick a problem from the sticky notes listed at the front of the room, and expand on them by making a mind map/sketchnote, with as much detail possible, in a restricted amount of time. For this part of the design sprint, I selected “The youtube guidelines.” I think this is a huge issue, because substantial amounts of revenue are being taken away due to the unclarity/unfairness of the guidelines, as you can see in my sketchnote.
My sketchnote
Empathy:
This step requires your listening, as you will be given a lesson on empathy, and the different forms empathy is used in. In our case we were shown a couple videos and
Empathize:
The whole point of this step was to create two different views of people who are currently being affected by this issue, and look at what they need and want. In order to complete this step, you must partner up with two different people,who will be referred to as “extreme user A and B.” Next you must explain your real world problem, along with the point of view they will have on this issue. For this part of
the design sprint, I told extreme user A that they would be a “youtuber whose profit is going down-hill, as you can see below. Next, I told extreme user B, that they would be someone looking to start a career as a youtuber, as shown below.
Define:
This step requires the use of creativity, and you must come up with a “how might we statement,” which should address your real world issue. For my how might we statement, I said “How might Youtube create a more sustainable/user friendly set of guidelines?”
Crazy eight’s:
Without a doubt, this was probably the most helpful, yet hardest step of the design sprint. This step requires you to generate eight different ideas with only 40 second per each idea. The first three were easy for me, but the rest were very difficult as I found myself expanding on previous ideas. If I were to change one thing, I would maybe give a little bit more time on the
last set of ideas, in order to generate the ideas up to your best quality.
Refine:
For this part of the design sprint, you will have to pair up with a new partner and briefly explain your real world issue. After you have given some insight on your topic, your partner will have to right four more solutions to your issue. In my case, my partner was set on contacting youtube to fix this issue.
Ideate/newest iteration:
For this part of the design sprint you will develop your main idea, by giving three elements of your real world issue, and finally give two solutions. This should also include pictures, an attention grabbing title, and it should be self-explanatory, as shown in my newest iteration.
Critiques:
This step requires the use of dots. You will be given a sheet of dots, which you will have to put on any statement, idea, or phrase, which you agree with. Once you have finished this process, you will be given three bigger dots,(super dots) these are to be used on any real world issue which you agree with, but don’t waste them because you only have three.
Feedback:
This step requires you to be in a group of people, as they will be critiquing your idea. They will critique your solution and the ethics/reasoning of it. This step requires a little bit of time for them to read your idea, and for you to respond to their questions.
Conclusion:
Overall this design sprint was a very engaging process, and it had me thinking of solutions which I probably would have never thought of, in such a short period of time. Listening to the instructions given during the design sprint aided me a lot while writing this text, because I knew what steps to right down. Reading the Cedar Ridge design sprint slideshow also helped me, as I was able to find the amount of time needed for each process/step. Writing the actual content displayed in the images throughout the text made this a very smooth process, as I was able to refer back to my own writing. Finally, speaking in groups throughout the design sprint made it easier for me to develop my text, and make it richer.
References:
References:
1.)"Design Sprint Cedar Ridge October 26-28, 2016". Google Docs. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Nov. 2016.
2.) “"Design Sprint Handouts". Google Docs. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Nov. 2016.
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