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Overview of the design sprint week

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- [Narrator] For some of you, this might be your first exposure to a design sprint, and if so keep watching. A design sprint is literally an approach to brainstorming your new feature for your product or a completely different new product. And all of this is typically done in a five-day sprint. Some people like to extend this design sprint to more than five days, and some others prefer a shorter format. The number of days isn't really important, as long as you achieve the objectives during a time period. The goal is to get from idea to prototype for your product in the five days or time period you allocated to the sprint. Now let's take a quick overview of what a design sprint week look like. The first day of the sprint focuses on creating a path for your sprint. Map out what the end result of your new feature or product should look like. Then on the second day you sketch out ideas, brainstorm in between all parties to find as many options and solutions as possible for arriving at the end result. On the third day you decide which solution to pursue, so you discuss with the team what is the best amongst all the options you brainstormed on day two. Next, on day four you prototype what this new feature or product looks like. And finally on day five, you test the prototype with real customers and evaluate the results of what you've put together out of this design sprint. If the tests are a failure, you rinse and repeat. Needless to say that sometimes you'll need more time than just a day to arrive at the sign post. But the idea of a design sprint is to quickly brainstorm and testing ideas so you don't waste product cycles and million of dollars on product development only to find that your new feature isn't what the market expected. It is a great way to quickly iterate through new ideas and find out if what you intend to market is what your customers expect at a fraction of the time and cost. This is a simplified view of what a design sprint looks like, but in a gist, is what it look like if you have to explain it to other people. We'll dive deep into each day later on.

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