Design sprints are meant to help you figure out where your team or organization should focus its efforts. In a traditional workplace, these decisions typically unfold over months of meetings and debates, augmented with numerous email threads, ultimately leading to costly investments in new products or strategies that all too often fall short. A design sprint attempts to compress this work, from the initial debates all the way to receiving market feedback on the resulting decisions, into one highly efficient workweek. On the first day, you figure out the problem you’re trying to solve. On the
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