Phase 3— Sketch
The third phase of the Design Sprint is sketch. The goal of this phase is to create and explore lots of ideas, sometimes crazy ones! And then start narrowing ideas down to just a few. Those ideas will be explored in more depth through more detailed sketches.
Topics and Learning Objectives
In this lesson, we’ll cover the following topics:
- The Sketch phase of the Design sprint
- Sketching basics
- Crazy 8’s
- Solution Sketches
At the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Describe the Sketch phase of the Design Sprint
- Understand basics for how to sketch effectively
- Use the Crazy 8’s method to ideate through sketching
- Use solution sketching to explore an idea in more depth
Crazy 8’s for the Grocery Store Chain App
Things to Remember
- Give each sprint member a sheet of paper
- Ask everyone to fold the piece of paper so that it has 8 sections, 1 section for each sketch
- Set a timer on repeat for 1 minute. When it goes off, it’s time to start the next sketch
- After 8 minutes, each team member will have 8 sketches of different ideas
Crazy 8’s is a method to quickly sketch out a lot of different ideas. The goal is to generate as many ideas as possible in a short period of time, without worrying about the quality of the sketch or whether it’s a good or bad idea. Both of those things will be addressed in the remaining concepts of this lesson
Crazy 8’s Further Research
After all sketches have been shared, giving 3 dot stickers to each team member and asking them to put the stickers on their favorite sketches is a quick way to a visual representation of how the team is feeling about the different ideas being discussed
Solution Sketching
- Each sprint member should pick one idea and sketch it out in more detail
- Your solution sketch should contain at least 3 frames that show progression through different states
- You can use words, colors, pictures as needed to help reinforce your idea
Make a Solution Sketch for the Grocery Store Chain App
Here is my Solution Sketch.
Things to Remember
Solution sketching is a way to explore ideas in more depth. A solution sketch should be high quality and will take more time to complete. It should also include at least 3 frames that show how a user navigate through and interact with the concept.
Solution sketches other people to better understand the specifics of the idea, but also starts to stress test the idea to see how it may or may not work well. Once you start sketching a solution out in more detail you may realize there might be more things required than what you originally thought.
