Get everything you need to run engaging design sprints

The whole team can ideate, design, and analyze in one place — so you get better, faster insights. The type of insights that keep you from sinking months into a product people won’t love.
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Diverge and converge as a team, but smoother

When one design sprint board has all your materials, it’s way more accessible to teams. Say goodbye to tool switching, saving you time and effort.

Go from idea to testing, together

Miro makes in-person and remote sprints so much better. Our intuitive, infinite canvas lets you visualize concepts, add sticky notes, and vote in context — without having to consolidate post-session photos or edits.

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Structured chaos, faster innovation

Our pre-built templates help you run activities like journey mapping, crazy 8s, prioritization, and voting. Everyone gets in on the action so no more painful handoffs.

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Keep insights alive and plan what's next

Boards live way beyond sprints. Automatically convert ideas into Jira or Azure DevOps tasks right on the board, so you can keep going from where you left off and stakeholders stay aligned.

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Try the official design sprint template

Run the best possible design sprint with this Miro-exclusive template built by Jake Knapp, author of New York Times bestselling book SPRINT.

Why people love Miro for design sprints

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Organize user research

Share findings by centralizing and organizing it all in one place. Then add any other artifacts that help your team make sense of the data and research.

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Create low-fidelity prototypes

Quickly put together mockups, wireframes, and prototypes with our Wireframe Library. Just drag and drop icons, shapes, and components directly on the board and see things come to life.

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Get way less context switching

Wireframing, user research synthesis, and workshop materials. They’re all here on Miro. Go from start to finish all in one board.

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Use Miro Assist for more creative work

After you brainstorm and test ideas, let your AI partner Miro Assist generate prompts. Or gather input and organize ideas faster than ever, and do a quick check that no ideas have been missed.

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Tips on how to run a design sprint

1. Prepare for the sprint

Before the sprint begins, set up your Miro board with the template, gathering all necessary materials. Like the problem statement and any relevant research or data.

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2. Day 1: Understand

Define goals and problem statements, using activities like user journey mapping and persona creation.

3. Day 2: Diverge

Examine various sources of inspiration and generate as many ideas as possible through brainstorming sessions and sketching exercises. Capture all ideas on the board and organize them for further review.

4. Day 3: Decide

Review and prioritize ideas. Try out our facilitation tools like voting, timer, and reactions to guide discussions and decision-making. Then adapt the winning ideas into storyboards.

5. Day 4-5: Prototype and test

Create prototypes, wireframes, or mockups of the solution. Conduct user testing sessions to gather feedback and iterate on the prototype as needed.

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Design sprint FAQs

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What’s a design sprint?

Design sprints are an intense 5-day process where user-centered teams tackle design problems. Teams bring expert insights so they can ideate, prototype and test solutions on selected users.

What are the phases of a design sprint?

Design sprints typically have five phases: Understand, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, and Test. The 'Understand' phase involves understanding the problem, business goals, and target audience. 'Sketch' is the brainstorming stage to generate solutions. The 'Decide' phase involves picking the most feasible solutions. The 'Prototype' phase is about creating a simplified model of the chosen solution. And finally, the 'Test' phase involves gathering feedback from users to validate or iterate the prototype. These all can happen right in Miro.

What’s the difference between Agile and design sprint?

Agile is a project management and product development approach that prioritizes iterative progress, flexibility, and collaboration. It’s all about breaking down a project into smaller parts, referred to as "sprints" (usually 1-4 weeks), and continuously iterating based on feedback. On the other hand, a design sprint is a time-boxed process used to answer critical design questions through rapid prototyping and testing ideas. Both methodologies are similar in their iterative nature. But Agile is generally a broader ongoing approach, while a design sprint is typically a one-time, focused, five-day process used to kickstart a project or solve a particular problem.

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