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An inspiration engine for ideas


On Monday, you’ll map out the problem and pick an important place to focus. On Tuesday, you’ll sketch competing solutions on paper. On Wednesday, you’ll make difficult decisions and turn your ideas into a testable hypothesis. On Thursday, you’ll hammer out a realistic prototype. And on Friday, you’ll test it with real live humans.
Jake Knapp • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
The sprint is GV’s unique five-day process for answering crucial questions through prototyping and testing ideas with customers.
Jake Knapp • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days




Primer on how we design at @linear:
The main point is that the design is only a reference, never any kind of deliverable itself, so the way it's constructed doesn't really matter.
1. We screenshot the app and design on top of
2. Simple design system that has mostly colors, type and some basic components (rest you can screenshot/recreate)
3. We ... See more

magic ingredients—a focus on individual work, time to prototype, and an inescapable deadline? I decided to call it a design “sprint.”