{"id":2109,"date":"2020-08-13T18:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2020-08-14T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T04:16:18","slug":"the-illusion-of-design-sprints-during-a-global-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/2020\/08\/13\/the-illusion-of-design-sprints-during-a-global-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion of Design Sprints During a Global Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"n p\">\n<div class=\"z ab ac ae af ha ah ai\">\n<p id=\"9e2e\" class=\"kp kq bj kr b hv ks kt ku hy kv kw kx ky kz id la lb lc ig ld le lf ij lg lh gv ct\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Since 2015, I\u2019ve run over 30 design sprints. I\u2019ve run design sprints at an agency for clients. I\u2019ve run design sprints with a small team at a lean startup. I\u2019ve run design sprints in well-funded and large-scale ventures. And recently, I have been running remote design sprints at Facebook as a product design manager.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"li\">\n<p id=\"ec39\" class=\"lj lk bj hd b ll lm ln lo lp lq lh bn\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">And I have a secret. Every time I run a design sprint, especially these days, I am playing head games with the participants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"e5d9\" class=\"kp kq bj kr b hv lr kt ku hy ls kw kx ky lt id la lb lu ig ld le lv ij lg lh gv ct\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Now, if you don\u2019t know, a design sprint is an intensive, highly structured five-day innovation cycle developed by\u00a0<a class=\"cg dj lw lx ly lz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gv.com\/sprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Google Ventures<\/a>. Product teams come together to tackle a specific problem and come out the other side with a solution and, hopefully, a prototype to validate it. It\u2019s an insanely fabulous and powerful way to jump-start ideas and get them into the market.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4aed\" class=\"kp kq bj kr b hv ks kt ku hy kv kw kx ky kz id la lb lc ig ld le lf ij lg lh gv ct\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">So how am I tricking people? Because when I gather designers, product managers, researchers, and engineers together for a sprint while they work remotely from home, they attend under the guises of a) following the typical\u00a0<a class=\"cg dj lw lx ly lz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gv.com\/sprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Google Sprint<\/a>\u00a0workshop methodology and b) purporting to \u201cmake a product.\u201d So, if we\u2019re not gathering for a design sprint and we\u2019re not getting together to prototype a product, what are we doing?<\/p>\n<p id=\"9f4a\" class=\"kp kq bj kr b hv ks kt ku hy kv kw kx ky kz id la lb lc ig ld le lf ij lg lh gv ct\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">We\u2019re connecting with each other at a time when everything is forcing us to disconnect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2015, I\u2019ve run over 30 design sprints. I\u2019ve run design sprints at an agency for clients. I\u2019ve run design sprints with a small team at a lean startup. I\u2019ve run design sprints in well-funded and large-scale ventures. And recently, I have been running remote design sprints at Facebook as a product design manager. And I have a secret. Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-thinking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2020\/08\/ux-store-jJT2r2n7lYA-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}