9 Best Articles on Design Sprints
The most useful articles on design sprints from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Design Sprints Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on design sprints by Refind users in 2023.
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How to get business value from a design sprint
Nathan Kinch shares 3 activities teams should add to their design sprints.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on design sprints—all under 10 minutes.
How LEGO Run Design Sprints at Scale
A case study about how LEGO scaled Design Sprints throughout its organisation
It’s time to move on from Design Thinking
The time has arrived to embrace design sprints.
The Design Sprint 2.0
Since the Sprint book came out in 2016, we’ve run over 200 Design Sprints here at AJ&Smart. We learned a lot about what works and what…
User Research is Overrated
Design Sprints have revealed an expensive waste of time in the modern design process.
Design Sprints Are Snake Oil
A design sprint is a five-day intensive process intended to solve tough business problems using design approaches.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on design sprints.
The Dangers of Remote Design Sprints (and the Framework That Makes Them Exceptional)
When running virtual Design Sprints (or, really any other kind of workshop), Miro or MURAL* should primarily be used as a presentation tool…
Designing the Smallest Possible Thing
We conducted research with hundreds of people working on agile teams about their experiences in order to understand some of the biggest design problems they encounter. Designers who work in sprints…
The Design Sprint Quarter: How to Make Design Sprints Work at Big Companies
A Three-Month Strategy from Design Sprint to Execution
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