Plan your work, then work your plan - Napoleon Hill

w2, already! And awayyy we to go. We’ve had time to rest, relax and reflect on our insights and surprises. So now what? Now we gotta actually do something…

Which brings us to week 2One of the main reasons I thought a design sprint would work for our team is everyone’s work ethic tuned to tangible, practical solutions. I knew a full 3 months of user research and no building might make the team go something something…

The great thing about the design sprint is the focus on putting something in the hands of our users.

So let’s start at the very beginning, the very best place to start…the end.

In Monday’s sole search, we have two goals.

1. We are going to do vote on our favourite HMWs. We have a whole process for this, but basically it’s dot voting, with a hot twist (basically a heat map with colour coded dots). Once we’ve found the hot one for this sprint, then we’re ready to come together.

2. We are going to start at the end. Individually, we’re going to take all our lessons, suprises and insights and imagine what our end would look like if our Big Question was answered - through an activity called ‘Headlines’.

Then we’re going to create a flow* from our Big Question > to the Headline.

When we come together in our remix session, we’re going to clarify our flows so we’re clear on what’s going on. We also want to know what’s different and what’s duplicated between each, but we’re not going to decide just yet.

When working alone, together, today we have two goals
i) we want to refine our flows and
ii) we need to start thinking about what our solutions may look like. The team will start to look around for some ideas that may help solve the big questions… and prepare for their ‘Lightning Demos’.

Then we wrap with a breif of our homework and sharpen our pencils, because tomorrow, it’s time to sketch

Would you like us to be working to the end of your big question? Then let us know here.

*In a typical design sprint, flows are known as maps. However, you can imagine the confusion that would follow.