

(Photo: Bob Demers/UANews)Įach Design Sprint allows us to shed a unique light on solutions, to identify patterns, weak signals and strong learnings that we will have to verify and exploit throughout the project. The rainforest biome, at the north end of Biosphere 2, was designed to simulate several tropical rainforest habitats. Each Design Sprint has its context so it’s important to gather and understand the required conditions of success to avoid too variable results. For us at Laptop, it is something akin to combinatorial art.

Organizing a Design Sprint is about fostering the best ecosystem possible for teachings to arise freely.


A Design Sprint is an artificial configuration for intense growth That way, the team can prioritize any investment they make along the way with a clearer head. These new perspectives are crucial, not only for the Sprint but for any future project roadmap. Test analysis is more important than the solution brought to life and these key learnings should be considered as the most precious deliverables of the Sprint. Through failure, you anticipate risks and build trust in the process. Failing is so expensive -in a Design Sprint, it’s what we are looking for. Through it, you dedicate days to learn fast and make a team of key stakeholders fall in love with the solution-building. More than a creativity workshop, a Design Sprint is a fertile ground for failure-nurturing. There is no such thing as a unique point of view. Understanding all aspects of a problem is the only way to transform those service opportunities into something bigger. We know perfection is a scam and we know we have to conceive a service that will make sense to potentially millions of users while using a technology that will soon be obsolete. When we sprint, we do a bit of the three, but our vision is more fractal. John Maeda likes to talk about design in 3 ways:
