We had the Jake and the GV team in our office running through their design sprint process back in November. Since then we've done 5 further sprints, and it's been a real gamechanger in making decisions quickly to test ideas as fast as possible.
@jakek I'm in Denmark, it might be a local thing, but still weird. I would expect an ebook to be at least 50% off the printed editon (considering printing, paper, shipping, warehousing, etc.). Here what it looks like with me: http://imgur.com/vZ10JFb
@kovlex@boetter The book has a bunch of illustrations, so if you're on the fence, go ebook.
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Is it out!? Been thinking about the book all evening, night and morning! Kinda felt like the day before my birthday. Can't wait to start reading and learning. 🤓
@david_hoogland Thanks! I can't believe it either, but it really is out today!
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@jakek Must have been a great journey! Congrats on launching! Love the cover as well, awesome to know that Jessica was part of the project. Great team, great job. Hope everybody in our industry gets to read it.
Braden ran our Design MBA class through the GV sprint process about a year ago. It was super fun to see how quickly we could get good ideas refined. It made getting results in our Business Models studio so much easier.
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When I was interning at a startup called Fullscreen last summer I participated in a 5 day sprint (based on the GV sprint) and it was extremely valuable. We were able to show off a rather slick product at the end of the week and everyone was impressed with how much we were able to get done in a short amount of time, little did they know we were using Keynote to do all of it. It was rather tiring process, especially if you do it right, but well worth the time.
The only problem that I found was when we separated into groups to make the prototype, we didn't have a consistent design and thus, the better-designed (color choices, font, etc) product ended up being liked by the most people. We were still able to take away a lot of valuable customer feedback from the other prototypes, but that's the only thing I'd change, I'd make sure no color is added and that everyone has a similar design.
@benbowdene Awesome to hear the sprint was so successful! Something you might try: instead of using no color at all (which can make customers not take the prototype completely seriously) maybe get a color/font theme from someplace like creativemarket.com.
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I wanted to pre-order this to score on the bonus materials. Alas, Kindle version is not supported in my country. :(
@cleavatron Depending on where you are, it may be available on March 10 (for international English)
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@jakek No worries. I've already put myself on a waiting list for it at a local bookstore. It should be here in a week or two. I'm from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia BTW. :D
@jakek I'm happy to announce, the paperback version is available here on this side of the world. I got mine a couple of hours ago. What a pleasant surprise.
Doing a Design Sprint with the GV team was one of the most important weeks of my career as a product designer. At the end of the week I knew it was the way I always wanted to work on design projects but never could quite articulate. I felt like we did three months of work in 5 days. Buy this book and commit to trying a sprint for just 5 days and see for yourself.
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I really liked the podcast, looking forward to this :)
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