Design Sprints

What are design sprints?

A design sprint is essentially a tool that enables you to stop deliberating and start doing. It combines the best bits of business strategy and innovation into a simple, five-day process – yes, really! – so you can find solutions, fast. It’s like a super-charged brainstorm, resulting in clear goals and effective results.

The process is simple: on the Monday, you make a map of the problem, on the Tuesday everyone sketches solutions, on the Wednesday you decide which solutions are the strongest, before building a realistic prototype on the Thursday and testing with target customers on the Friday. The result? A smarter, more effective way of solving problems. Tah-dah!

Thinking about running a design sprint? Make sure you download our guide to recruiting the best possible participants so your sprint goes smoothly.

Our approach

When it comes to design sprints, your participants are essential. After all, there’s no point in doing all the hard work only to test your product on a sample that isn’t representative of your target audience. It’s all about recruiting the right people to ensure your feedback is meaningful and can drive decisions – but how can you recruit participants at such short notice? Well, that’s where we come in!

If you want to run a successful design sprint, then speed is essential – and at Angelfish, we are experts in finding high-quality respondents that meet even the strictest of criteria. You see, our super-clever, efficient recruitment process involves a combination of targeted social media campaigns, an engaged proprietary audience of over 26,000 and refer a friend campaigns to make sure we find the right people for your design sprint.

By getting the Angelfish team involved with your sprint as soon as possible, we will be able to source the best possible participants and offer bespoke advice and guidance so you can build a design sprint that works. Find out more about how we do it and what makes us different to other agencies here.

Testimonials

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  • Working with Angelfish has been a wonderful experience. They are professional, pleasant and pro-active which is exactly what we were looking for in a recruitment company. Having worked with a variety of recruitment agencies, it was an added and unexpected bonus to receive feedback from the respondents who participated in our research. We look forward to working with them again!

    Eurotunnel

  • The Angelfish Team were personable, thorough and extremely professional. They provided us with four lots of engaged participants for our focus groups following a smooth recruitment process, which they managed effectively and efficiently. They kept us well informed every step of the way during our project and this gave us confidence that they would deliver – which they did.

    South York Fire and Rescue

  • The recruitment updates are very detail orientated and outline how recruitment is going and proactively highlight a plan of action to ensure that recruitment is seamless.

    The Behavioural Architects

  • “We have worked with Angelfish for 3 years now and have always experienced a great service. The team have always met our briefs effectively and efficiently which has allowed us to run a number of successful qualitative research projects. Angelfish are proactive and adaptable, which has been particularly important given some of the short timelines we often have to work to. On a personal note, Lisa, Kelly and the team are lovely and make working together easy and thoroughly enjoyable.”

    IKEA UK Market Intel Specialist

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Want to find out more?

For more information on designs sprints and how running a design sprint can revolutionise your research, check out these blogs.

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Ready, steady, sprint!

Our ultimate guide to getting the best participants for your qualitative research will help to ensure your design sprint goes off without a hitch. From how to find the best user research recruitment agency to top briefing tips, discover how you can generate results and solve real problems.

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