A competition I designed to help communities reduce energy consumption through an incentivizing competition.
A Product Design Sprint is a technique to quickly design, prototype, and test the viability of an idea, product, or feature. The design sprint consists of 5 phases (typically days), starting with design thinking and ending with a user-tested prototype.
Phase 0 - Prepare
- Prior to Design Sprint, send client worksheet to answer the following questions
- Identify 5 users we can test at 30 min intervals during Validation
- Identify at least 3 websites that are competitors similar to your idea
- Conduct at least 3 customer interviews
- Who are the customers?
- What are their stories
- How do they feel about the stated problem
- Existing user stories, wireframes, prototypes, background info
Phase 1 - Understand
- Gather existing knowledge, expose assumptions, and unknowns
- Define the business
- Who will use the product?
- How is the product solving a problem that the users have?
- Transparency of energy consumption and usage report
- Holds neighbors accountable
- In what situation will the user use the product?
- What will motivate them to use it?
- What are outside motivators that might affect their use?
- What don’t we know? Knowledge Gaps
- Research existing research
- Review analysis of competitive products
PROCESS TOOLS TO USE
- Problem Statement
- 5 Whys
- Who, What, Where, When
- Research
- Assumptions
- Needs, Wants, Desires
- Critical Path for problem
- To be captured at tend of “Understand” phase
Phase 2 - Diverge Illuminate all paths
Phase 3- Converge Choose the right path
Phase 4 - Prototype Quickly build the right path
Phase 5 - Testing Test the right path