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FUNSIZE SPRINT SCHOOL: PRODUCT DESIGN SPRINTS WORKSHOP

PART I

INTRODUCTION

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ANTHONY ARMENDARIZ Partner & Experience Director

@MANTWAN ANTHONY@FUNSIZE.CO

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76% OF OUR WORK ARE DIGITAL PRODUCTS (SOFTWARE)

WE ONLY WORK WITH PRODUCT ORGANIZATIONS.

PART I I

HOW PRODUCTS ARE MADE

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FIRST,

WE’RE TALKING ABOUT SOFTWARE not MARKETING DESIGN

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH WATERFALL?

WHY AGILE?

Design is a process that should yield perfect work. Nope. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Super wrong.

AGILE/LEAN’S CYCLICAL AND INCREMENTAL PROCESS

DEVELOP & RELEASE

DESIGN (Iterations and

Variations)

VALIDATE & TEST

GATHER REQUIREMENTS

If you’re a product designer, you’re really designing to create incremental value.

Today’s client’s are fucking smart. The agency and designers don’t hold all the expertise.

THE BENEFITS

Teamwork: mo’ minds = mo’ betta

Move fast, fail fast, iterate fast

MVP & validation-oriented work

Incremental process vs. ship-and-done mentality

Accommodates quarterly and annual budget considerations vs. an entire-

project-at-once approach

Full project team transparency

Agency-to-client trust

Get product market fit faster

Maximizes investments and saves money

No more over working as a designer

Get paid for everything you do, even if you finish a little early

DESIGN SPRINTS

TODAY WE’LL BE REVIEWING

Funsize Agile 2-Week Design Sprint

For creating short and long term incremental value with 2 week design

sprints in retainer engagements.

Outcomes-Based 5-Day Sprints

For creating tangible measurable results within a structured process and

short fixed timeframe.

Q &A

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PART I I I

FUNSIZE AGILE DESIGN SPRINT “STEADY PACE & INCREMENTAL VALUE”

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WHAT’S THIS GOOD FOR?

Serious product companies

Partnerships/staff augmenting

Long-term projects

Ever-evolving product ecosystems

FUNSIZE’S 2 WEEK DESIGN SPRINT

SPRINT PLANDESIGN

(Iterations and Variations)

VALIDATE & TEST

KICK OFF

STORIES

THE WHO, WHAT AND WHY METHOD

“As a power user I need to be able to login to Instagram so I can easily switch accounts to be able manage my personal

and business profiles.”

STORIES

TASK AND ACTIVITY METHOD

“Design account switching flow”

“Refine onboarding wireframes”

“Complete style guide and asset library”

STORIES

Stories are features and blocks of the work that are broken up into small, easy to understand tasks that describe what

you are creating and when.

These are written and estimated collaboratively by our clients and our design team. Each sprint we plan and

execute the stories based on priority and what we can plan within our availability (velocity).

STORIES

Stories provide transparency. Stakeholders can read the stories in layman’s terms, and ask questions. Clients can

look at how they are prioritized and have meaningful conversations about what’s most important.

Stories help lower risk. Clients often have limited resources at their disposal. Delivering smaller pieces of work at a rapid pace helps clients get their products in

front of their audience faster.

SPRINT POINTS

Estimating tasks with points help us assign an estimate that matches the effort. Breaking things into smaller tasks allow

us to keep a good pace and manage the work smartly.

2 Hour Task = 1 Point

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16

SPRINT ACTIVITIES (8 POINTS/SPRINT)

Sprint Kickoff: 1 Pt./Sprint Our teams meet to kick off the sprint.

Standups: 1 Pt./Sprint Our two teams meet to check the pulse on the status and various planning. We discuss work in progress, blockers, and capture action items for both teams.

Internal Review: 2Pts./Sprint Funsize design team internal review of progress.

Design Review: 2Pts./Sprint Funsize and client teams meet weekly to review the design progress, discuss open stories, capture action items and discuss design.

Backlog Groom: 2Pts./Sprint Funsize and client meeting to organize the backlog of upcoming items, capture tasks and stories we believe should be worked on, and plan the next sprint in advance of the next sprint.

SPRINT VELOCITY: A 1 PERSON DESIGN TEAM

1. Starting Velocity

A project has 1 Designer who works a typical 40 hour per week schedule or 80 hours per 2 week sprint.

Converting hours to points that designer can work a maximum of 40 points per 2 week sprint.

2. Adjusted Velocity

40 Points -Sprint Activities (8 Pts.) = 32 Points/2 Week Sprint

This designer is doing 32 Hours of design work and 8 hours of sprint activities/week.

WHAT THE HELL MAN?

Why do we do this?

How did we create this process?

Why is it important for our clients and design team to embrace this way of working?

IT’S FUNSIZE-STYLE SPRINT WRKSHOP TIME!

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WORKSHOP PROJECT

BENCH.CO

OVERVIEW

With Bench, you get a professional online bookkeeper to do your books for you and our simple, elegant software to review your finances. It’s everything you need to forget about your bookkeeping, without actually forgetting about your bookkeeping.

MESSAGES

Your bookkeeper can message you with updates or questions regarding your expenses, accounts and business reports.

You can message your book keeper anytime you have a question or something you’d like to discuss.

EXPENSES

Your book keeper categorizes your expenses but you can always go in and change them or discuss them with your book keeper.

REPORTS

You and your accountant have access to monthly updated Balance Sheets and Income Statements.

WORKSHOP 1: FUNSIZE METHOD

PLAN AND DESIGN BENCH’S FIRST IPHONE APP’S CORE FEATURES.

EXERCISE 1

PLAN SPRINT 1

EXERCISE 2

PLAN SPRINT 2 (+ WILDCARD)

EXERCISE 3

ORGANIZE THE REST IN THE BACKLOG

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PART IV

THE 5-DAY GOOGLE SPRINT “ TO CREATE MEASUREABLE OUTCOMES”

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A PRESCRIBED PROCESS

DAY 0

Unpack

DAY 1

Setting the Stage

DAY 2

Sketch

DAY 3

Decision

DAY 4

Prototype

DAY 5

Test

WHAT’S THIS GOOD FOR?

Designing a new flow

Validating a new product concept

Zero-MVP products

New design directions

Building new features

IT’S 5-DAY SPRINT WRKSHOP TIME!

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Setting the Stage DAY 0

Choose a big problem

Gather a team

Clear your calendars and grab supplies

Schedule a deadline and user study

WORKSHOP 2: OUTCOMES BASED 5 DAY SPRINT

DESIGN THE ON-BOARDING FLOW USING THE OUTCOMES BASED 1 WEEK SPRINT.

THE ICEBOX HAS SOME CANIDATES FOR A WORKSHOP!

REVIEW YOUR THE PROBLEM OR TASK

Unpack DAY 1

Unpack all of the knowledge

Draw insights as a team

Create a simple user story

Set the scope for the week

As a new user, it’s clear to me that Bench is a modern solution for bookkeeping.

As a new user, signing up is easy and does not require me to spend more than 2 minutes of my time.

As a current user, I can easily access Sign In.

As a current user, I am given the benefits of knowing why I need the companion iPhone application.

WRITE REQUIREMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

Sketch DAY 2

Work individually to sketch multiple solutions

Use structured critique & weighted voting to select the best ideas

Independently, sketch as many as ideas as possible.

Decision DAY 3

Narrow down solutions and make tough decisions

Draw a storyboard

Select research participants & start planning Day 5 interviews

Prototype DAY 4

Be ridiculously productive

Build a realistic prototype

Gather a team of experts and set your plan in motion

PROTOYPE (OR BUILD) EVERYTHING

Test DAY 5

Show your prototype to real customers

Observe & take really good notes

Start finding patterns in real-time

Reactions expose opportunities

VALIDATE YOUR IDEAS AND DESIGN

OKAY, LET’S RECAP

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Q &A

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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FUNSIZE SPRINT SCHOOL Please reach out if your company is interested in receiving a private presentation or deep dive workshop of the two design sprint models covered here.

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