Today, we are expected to be both fast and flexible. We need to react to changes at a moment’s notice and always be ready to pivot our course of action. Understanding how we need to change, and why, comes from creative activities like user research. But working fast can make it hard to find the time for this kind of creative work. That’s where design sprints come in. These concentrated bursts of team collaboration mean getting together for days or a week to focus on a specific design challenge. Design sprints are intense, but are usually very productive. But what happens if your team is remote? In this free webinar, designer Laïla von Alvensleben from the design agency Hanno shares her insights on conducting design sprints with a remote team. Her advice is based on years of research and practical experience with clients like Über and Lenovo. We know remote design can be daunting, so we’ve brought Laïla to the spotlight to ease our fears and show us how to have speed, quality design and a distributed team.

1. RUNNING REMOTE DESIGN SPRINTS
with Laïla von Alvensleben

2. JIM KALBACH
Head of Customer Success
@mural
#remotesprint

3. Laïla von Alvensleben
Designer
Hanno
@lailavona @wearehanno #remotesprint

4. Today’s webinar:
☉ Why run remote design sprints?
☉ About Hanno
☉ How we run remote sprints
☉ Remote sprints in action
☉ Tips for better remote collaboration
☉ Q&A

5. Why run remote
design sprints?

6. Design is becoming more relevant

7. 68%of millennials are interested
in working remotely
37%increase in telecommuting in
the U.S. workforce in 2015
Remote work is on the rise
Sources:
After College Career Insight Survey (2015) https://www.aftercollege.com/cf/2015-annual-survey
Gallup (2015) http://www.gallup.com/poll/184649/telecommuting-work-climbs.aspx

8. Design sprints can be more profitable

9. We use design sprints to grow
businesses in the emerging
digital economy.

10. HANNO

11. ☉ Remote
☉ Self-managed
☉ Transparent
☉ Agile
☉ Lean
We work differently:

13. We are purpose driven
with a social mission

14. Design for impact.

15. How we run remote
design sprints

16. Online tools for remote collaboration:
☉ Slack
☉ Asana
☉ Skype / Google Hangouts / Appear.in
☉ Google Drive
☉ MURAL

18. Planning

19. Sprint team

20. 1. Strategy Execution
Understand Ideate Validate Launch Scale
2 days-1 week 1-2 weeks or more 1-2 weeks or more 1-2 weeks or more Optional
Explore opportunity
- workshops
- interviews
- research
Develop ideas
- ideation
- prototypes
Test and validate
- user testing
- insights
- rapid prototypes
Build product
- user testing
- iterations
Scale & accelerate
- integrate the client’s
team into our process
How a project unfolds:

21. 1. Strategy 2. Execution
Understand Ideate Validate Launch Scale
2 days-1 week 1-2 weeks or more 1-2 weeks or more 1-2 weeks or more Optional
Explore opportunity
- workshops
- interviews
- research
Develop ideas
- ideation
- prototypes
Test and validate
- user testing
- insights
- rapid prototypes
Build product
- user testing
- iterations
Scale & accelerate
- integrate the client’s
team into our process
How a sprint unfolds:

22. Remote sprints in action

23. Case Study:
Ava

28. Tips for better
remote collaboration

29. Pre-sprint preparation:
☉ Create a new client project online
☉ Have a pre-sprint call with the client
☉ Select team members
☉ Identify time zones and daily stand-up calls
☉ Ask the client to find users
☉ Test internet connections and find backups
Source: Remote Design Thinking (2015): https://medium.com/remote-design-thinking

30. How to succeed at remote design sprints:
● Communicate, communicate, communicate!
● Work from a quiet environment
● Make a daily schedule for all activities
● Alternate between working together, alone, F2F
● Bookmark links for easy reference

31. If you’d like to learn more, we can run a remote workshop to give you a feel for what
it’s like to run remote design sprints.
How about a workshop on
remote work?
Want to learn more?
laila@hanno.co jim@mural.co