Weekly challenge 3: Design sprints

Weekly challenge 3: Design sprints >> Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

What can be improved? ✓

What went well? ✓

What is the next project?

Who will attend the next meeting?

Retrospectives pinpoint the team members who did not sufficiently complete their tasks.

Retrospectives ensure the team has sufficient resources and tools to do better next time. ✔

Retrospectives provide the opportunity to retry a design sprint and start tasks from scratch.

Retrospectives identify the most efficient team members and assign them management roles.

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A collaborative critique of the team’s design sprint.

An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality. ✘

A team of creatives hired to build a marketing campaign.

A time-bound process, with five phases typically spread over five full 8-hour days.

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the team will complete at project end ✘

the team just finished

the team is about to start

the team is currently completing ✘

Delegate ✘

Test

Ideate ✘

Understand

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Yes. Design sprints save time. With a sprint, a design team can shorten the decision-making process from several months to one week. ✓

No. Design sprints help solve critical design challenges, but they are time consuming because they are detail-oriented.

Sometimes. Design sprints save time for solutions-oriented teams, but they may create decision-making bottlenecks for less efficient teams.

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Planning and implementing

Understanding and ideating ✔

Development and retrospective

Correct: It is through understanding the problem and then rapidly brainstorming ideas that we are able to come up with multiple solutions quickly. This makes it easier for us to decide what to move forward with and then prototype and test.

Design sprints allow stakeholders to tell you their needs so that you can design solutions for them.

Design sprints allow you to determine what worked well and what went wrong during a sprint cycle.

Design sprints are an effective, time-saving method that focuses on users to define the solution to a problem. ✔

Correct: Design sprints are important because they create an effective, time-saving path that focuses on designing solutions for the user.

Review previous sprints ✘

Call in the experts

Build the final product ✘

Review new technologies

Review or engage in user research, talk with experts, find a common space, create the necessary pace in order to meet our goals in the most efficient way possible. ✓

Set who will work on what and when are the key goals of sprint planning. Only by knowing what we are doing and when it is due, can we be successful.

Listen to stakeholders and look at competitors, to avoid mistakes and build a better product.

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By talking to the experts, looking at the feedback from customers, gathering a team, and working through a solution, we are better able to provide an enjoyable user experience that meets the business’s objectives. ✓

Finding a good team and a project sponsor are the most important steps in planning a successful design sprint and creating a better improved product for end users.

By listening to stakeholders and looking at our competitors, we can prevent making the same mistakes, create or improve upon existing features, and build a better product.

Correct: This best describes the steps of sprint planning. Good sprint planning is key to a successful project outcome.

6.As an entry level UX designer my role in design sprint planning is to set the goals.

True

False ✓

Create a prototype

Test the prototype

Confirm the design challenge

Develop design ideas

Correct: An entry-level UX designer in the Prototype phase would be actively involved in creating a solid prototype for users to try out.

7.Which phase is immediately before the Test phase in a design sprint?

Decide

Understand

Ideate

Prototype ✔

Yes. Design sprints prioritize a design’s fiscal viability. They help teams identify a profit-driven path to market.

No. Design sprints prioritize the user. They help teams create a path to market, but they put the user before profit. ✔

Sometimes. Design sprints may help teams identify a profit-driven path to market. The team needs to choose between a user-first approach and a profit-first approach.

Yes. In design sprints teams can validate ideas, and solve design challenges, through prototyping and testing ideas with customers. ✓

No. In design sprints teams can either solve critical design challenges or validate ideas, but not both.

Sometimes. In design sprints teams can test and iterate on existing design solutions, but may not have enough time to solve immediate design challenges.

Correct: Validating ideas and solving big challenges through prototyping and testing is one of the key reasons why design sprints are important.

Establish sprint rules ✔

Gather supplies

Find the right space

Call in the experts

Correct: Figuring out the ground rules in advance sets the tone for the sprint, gets everyone on the same page, and helps your team stay focused.

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Call in the experts

Find the right space

Gather supplies

User research ✓

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Gather supplies

Establish sprint rules

Call in the experts

Plan introductions ✔

Correct: Planning introductions is an important planning step because sprints involve cross-functional teams that need to work together.

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Design sprint challenge ✓

Project overview ✓

Resources ✓

Team introductions

Weekly challenge 3: Design sprints >> Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

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