Design Sprint Masterclass Stories
We’ve trained thousands of people all around the world. See how our Masterclass has impacted their lives.
Design Sprint Masterclass Stories
We’ve trained thousands of people all around the world. See how our Masterclass has impacted their lives.
All the testimonies in this page are from graduate students.
All the testimonies in this page are from graduate students.
Alejandro
Díaz
"Great course!! It helped me to improve my facilitator skills, prepare and run Design Sprint sessions to co-create and test new products concepts with our clients in 4 days
Fail fast, learn fast!"
MohammadSheikh
"From Design Sprint 2.0 to The Remote Design Sprint Masterclass, it's been an exciting and enlightening journey to update my skills by understanding the new and improved process which started at Google Ventures.
Thanks AJ&Smart, Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney."
KatarinaMazanka
"It's been great to learn about the updated Design Sprint process in such detail, and I can't wait to get started on the new Remote Design Sprint material. Thanks! @AJ&Smart"
CameronGallacher
"I've always been impressed by how effective Design Sprints are at helping teams solve problems, learn faster, and build better products, so I am very happy to have completed the AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass to level up my facilitation skills, understand the Design Sprint process more deeply, and how I can apply the methods from it in my day to day work."
SonjaSayer
"Since becoming a Product Manager I’ve needed to upskill in several categories, but of all of the skills I’ve been building, I believe that the facilitation of design thinking has been the most essential. So, I educated myself and now I'm certified to facilitate design thinking practices that create and test new product concepts in a matter of days, and I can do it in-person or remotely, though I’ve already been practicing on the job for some time. Thanks for the education AJ&Smart Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano Jake Knapp (and others behind the scenes who produce the content, host Q&As, make YouTube and Instagram content, etc.) and the surrounding learning community."
Daphne S. Leger
" "I am still learning" wrote Michelangelo, at age 87. Me too! Excited to add the Google-born DESIGN SPRINT to my Innovation toolkit and looking forward to facilitating Sprints for any challenge that is keeping your team up at night and that you want to push to a prototyped solution in just one week! Thanks for a super dynamic & practical course @Aj&Smart"
JeffreyMeurer
"It has been joyful to update my skills with the design sprint 2.0 and get the best tips and tricks on how to use it in the design process. Thank you AJ&Smart , Jake Knapp , Dee Scarano and Jonathan Courtney for creating such a funny and insightful masterclass.
#designsprint #designprocess #certified"
#designsprint #designprocess #certified"
JeffreyMeurer
"So much has changed in the world since October when I became a Sprint Master, but the Design Sprint process and methods continue to add great value to companies needing to innovate. I am so grateful to AJ&Smart Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano Tim Höfer for offering such a great Masterclass. I have now completed the Remote Design Sprint Masterclass to keep adding value as a workshopper. Excited to keep solving, validating and getting businesses to new levels of success!"
Vasu Kolla
"It's been fun going through AJ&Smart design sprint masterclass on Sprint 2.0, the new and improved design sprint process (only 4 days).
Thanks AJ&Smart, Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney #designsprint #designthinking"
THOMASPENTZ
"First I was delighted with the book "The Desing Sprint" by Jake Knapp. I dived deeper and updated my skills with the Design Sprint Masterclass by AJ&Smart .
I’m now officially certified as a Design Sprint Facilitator! ✌🏼🎉
We are really looking forward to helping more purpose-driven organisations solve big problems and test new ideas in 2020!
Thanks Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney & Dee Scarano for a great masterclass and all the value you’ve been adding to Cubicfox through your resources!"
FidesFierz
"It was so much fun updating my skills re Design Sprints and Facilitation with AJ&Smart and learn from the best!
Thank you much to the team at AJ&Smart , esp Ryan de Metz , and most of all thanks to Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney --- the first for creating such an awesome "recipe" for product innovation, the second for packing it up so generously into such an awesome Masterclass - and for keeping to add to it! Thanks guys!!"
HanYang
"🎉 Exciting update! Recently, I completed the Design Sprint Masterclass by AJ&Smart . And I'm now certified as a Design Sprint Facilitator! 👩🎓🥳
An exceptional approach for teams to create and test product concepts in just 4 days. It is an interesting and effective process that even non-designers can use design thinking to innovate and validate solutions. 🔮💡
Huge thanks to the team AJ&Smart , Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney & Dee Scarano for this awesome course!! Cheers! 🍻🍻🍻"
ShannonLewandowski
"A huge Thank You to AJ&Smart for creating this exceptional Masterclass and online community. We’ve witnessed how the Design Sprint 2.0 approach can rapidly solve complex problems for our clients, compressing months of work into a few days. But, what do I love most about the Design Sprint methodology?✅ It is Inclusive: Each voice and idea on the team is heard
✅ An Effective Framework: You do not need to be creative to participate
✅ Work Together, Alone: Enables you to think deeply as an individual, and come together as a team to share and vote.
Thank you to Dee Scarano, Jonathan Courtney, Jake Knapp, for sharing your knowledge, tips, templates, and tricks for more effective design sprints."
AndrewHawari
"Yes, I am now #certified #designsprint #facilitator 🤓😊🎉
It's been amazing to update my skills to the understand of the #designsprints 2.0. #designsprints 2.0 is the most up-to-date version of the Design Sprints process.
Now it is possible to solve problems and test new ideas in 4 days instead of 5.
Big thanks to Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano AJ&Smart"
Prabhani ThembiliyaGodage
"✅ A few months back I decided to learn how to facilitate a sprint from the best sprint practitioners in the world.
Thank you, Jonathan Courtney, Jake Knapp, and AJ&Smart team for delivering such a great learning experience. I am very thankful for the eco-system, and the support you provide to improve continuously.
🙏"
Andrea G. Escamilla
"I loved this masterclass to help complement my facilitator skills! It was so fun to learn this process that started at Google Ventures. I'm so excited to start testing it out."
SepidehSalimi
"Design Sprint is the best way to solve big problems and test new ideas in just 4 days, created by Jake Knapp.It will not only helps you to move faster and stronger it gives you a new perspective in design.
Thank you Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, Dee Scarano, and the amazing AJ&Smart team to help others to upgrade their skills in such a fun way 😍"
EdoardoBenedetto
"Never stop learning #designsprint 2.0
The new and improved process which started in GV - Google Ventures by Jake Knapp.
Thanks for AJ&Smart and Jonathan Courtney for lessons!"
KaranTaparia
"Jonathan Courtney, AJ&Smart, exceptional team, helping me master the concepts with lessons which were organic and well-structured. Enrolling myself in this course #designsprintmasterclass was the best gift I could have given myself. With detailed explanations, live Q&A sessions, add-on courses and everything else in between, this course has been an enjoyable learning experience.
Thanks to Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney AJ&Smart making it possible for professionals like me to continue to learn and stay ahead in the game!! #designsprints #productdesign"
NikitaKanade
"🎉 Exciting announcement! New skillset added 😊 I am now a #certified #designsprint #facilitator 🎉
Design Sprint helps to radically improve the digital product design process by aligning product teams to consolidate months worth of work in just a few days. You get to test new ideas with real user with a prototype in just 4 days without writing a single line of code 👌
Originally formulated by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures and further refined by Jonathan Courtney and the team of AJ&Smart Thank you for the awesome course!"
Bartvan Gompel
"🥳 Just received my certificate for completing the Design Sprint Masterclass 👨🎓 by AJ&Smart .
If you're interested in facilitating Design Sprints yourself, I can highly recommend this course! 👍👍👍 Sooo much valuable information!!"
MichaelKattenbeld
"Design Sprint helps you to radically improve the digital product design process by aligning product teams to consolidate months worth of work in just a few days. You get to test new ideas with real users with a prototype in only 4 days without writing a single line of code.
Jake Knapp had initially created Design Sprint at Google Ventures and wrote the book SPRINT! It was further refined by Jonathan Courtney and the team of AJ&Smart and they did an amazing job doing so."
NicoleMerrill
"A few months ago, I wanted to integrate and apply more of the design sprint approach into our work at Vecteris, so I decided to enroll in AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass to learn the best practices for running efficient and structured workshops. I so enjoyed the course about problem-solving and decision-making.
Thank you, Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, Dee Scarano & the whole AJ&Smart team to help me upgrade my skills in such a fun way!"
Dominic Emanuel Horn
"Pleased to say I've been certified by AJ&Smart as a Design Sprint facilitator. I decided to take this Masterclass because I've run numerous Design Thinking workshops and believe in their effectiveness. The Design Sprint is a weeklong workshop which aims to solve problems or create product concepts in just 4 days. The ROI is almost unquantifiable: in the work produced, in lessons learned, and the speed in which it happens—but also as a powerful motivator for a team, while fostering shared ownership. Shout-out to Jonathan Courtney and Jake Knapp and team! #designsprints #uxdesign"
AlinaNastas
"⚡ One of the many good things that I was inspired to start and accomplish during the lock-down is the AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass.
While there is still a long way to go until I can really call myself a facilitator and a problem solver with Design Sprint process, I have a good feeling about what I learned, what I still lack and what I can already bring to the table.
Dee Scarano, it was a pleasure to follow you through the entire course 💜. Thank you!
Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, a big thank you to you too!
#designsprints #facilitation #workshop #innovation"
Andres Jordan Zeballos
"I have been learning and running Design Sprints for the last 4 years (50+) with big companies, startups, non-tech ventures and now with the government, always is a challenge but finally I could get the certification.I took the opportunity to refine my concepts, tools and learn more about Remote Design Sprints because it's very important during lockdown.
I'm happy to have learned more about Design Sprint started by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures and iterated on by Jonathan Courtney and the AJ&Smart team.
Thanks to Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano AJ&Smart
#designsprint #designsprints #keeplearning"
MylesClemones
"Great time updating my skills and deepening my under-standing of the Design Sprint 2.0 methodology with ex-Googler and Sprint Creator Jake Knapp, alongside Jonathan Courtney and Dee Scarano from AJ&Smart."
ChereChete
FelipePontes
"👏👏👏1000 Slaps!👏👏👏
Just finished a 3-day Design Sprint (15 hours in total) for a big Japanese telecom company at US$ 20,000! 🗾⛩🚀
We’re running sprints mainly in Japan now, but we’re also open to doing it all over Asia. If you need any help around here, feel free to hit me up!"
TeddyWilhelm
BillAlexy
"Last Thursday we ran a two hour decision jam. Since I have permission and the purpose and client are obscured I thought I’d share the outcome here. I owe so much to the book Sprint and the generosity of AJ&Smart. For the sake of selling this jam we called it a Design Jam. It’s basically the solution sketching part of the full sprint squeezed bet-ween the beginning and ending steps of the decision jam.
The problem, other than the design issue we were tackling, was the slowness of decisions and constant iterations we were building to accommodate their brilliant Chief Marketing Officer. The project was poorly scoped. We warned our client of the problem that they weren’t forecasting how large this project was (we are subcontracting to a development consultancy) and we all prepared for the eventual chaos.
With the right communication and gentle reminders we were able to take advantage of the situation with the full support of our client and the business that hired us. The result was very positive. Thank you AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass, Jonathan, Dee, and Laura for the positive energy you exude, the business value you bring, and dedication to your craft."
TIAGOMORGADO
"Goodies from AJ&Smart!! Design Sprint Masterclass was amazing!!! Thanks for sharing the knowledge, you guys are the best!
#designsprint #designsprints #productdesign #uxui #uxdesign"
Lisa Lee Hamilton
SabrinaGoerlich
Gilang andiPRadana
"Stepping up the game by getting officially certified by the #DesignSprint creator himself: @jakeknapp and everyone at @ajsmartdesign! (sending tons of high fives to you guys!!!)
I think Design Sprint is a great way to apply proven design methods to the industry where we have to keep up with the time demand. It is a structured step-by-step innovation process started at Google Ventures to help align teams, explore big challenges, define, and validate solutions in just 4 days, which has helped many companies like Lego, Uber, Netflix, and Facebook, in designing their products that you are using now.
The masterclass is perfect if you want to level up your facilitation. The contents are fun, entertaining, insightful, easy to digest, and at the same time teaches everything you need to start facilitating design sprints."
JudithCardenas
"Thank you Jonathan Courtney, Laura Faint and the entire team. I successfully worked with a group last week in Ohio and the results were amazing. Thank youu !!!!"
ShenjaJeworek
"Look at that box of awesomeness that I just received 🎉🤟🏻Thanks so much ❤️"
DavidHoll
Alejandro
Díaz
"Great course!! It helped me to improve my facilitator skills, prepare and run Design Sprint sessions to co-create and test new products concepts with our clients in 4 days
Fail fast, learn fast!"
MohammadSheikh
"From Design Sprint 2.0 to The Remote Design Sprint Masterclass, it's been an exciting and enlightening journey to update my skills by understanding the new and improved process which started at Google Ventures.
Thanks AJ&Smart, Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney."
KatarinaMazanka
"It's been great to learn about the updated Design Sprint process in such detail, and I can't wait to get started on the new Remote Design Sprint material. Thanks! @AJ&Smart"
MichaelKattenbeld
"Design Sprint helps you to radically improve the digital product design process by aligning product teams to consolidate months worth of work in just a few days. You get to test new ideas with real users with a prototype in only 4 days without writing a single line of code.
Jake Knapp had initially created Design Sprint at Google Ventures and wrote the book SPRINT! It was further refined by Jonathan Courtney and the team of AJ&Smart and they did an amazing job doing so."
NicoleMerrill
"A few months ago, I wanted to integrate and apply more of the design sprint approach into our work at Vecteris, so I decided to enroll in AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass to learn the best practices for running efficient and structured workshops. I so enjoyed the course about problem-solving and decision-making.
Thank you, Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, Dee Scarano & the whole AJ&Smart team to help me upgrade my skills in such a fun way!"
Dominic Emanuel Horn
"Pleased to say I've been certified by AJ&Smart as a Design Sprint facilitator. I decided to take this Masterclass because I've run numerous Design Thinking workshops and believe in their effectiveness. The Design Sprint is a weeklong workshop which aims to solve problems or create product concepts in just 4 days. The ROI is almost unquantifiable: in the work produced, in lessons learned, and the speed in which it happens—but also as a powerful motivator for a team, while fostering shared ownership. Shout-out to Jonathan Courtney and Jake Knapp and team! #designsprints #uxdesign"
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WENDYTAM
"Use Design Sprint 2.0, the updated and proven process started at Google Venture, to help as many organizations who believe that NOW is the time to create a better future by accelerating innovation as a team. Big thank you to the brilliant team at AJ&Smart and of course to Jake Knapp for creating this powerful collaborative process."
JeffreyMeurer
"So much has changed in the world since October when I became a Sprint Master, but the Design Sprint process and methods continue to add great value to companies needing to innovate. I am so grateful to AJ&Smart Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano Tim Höfer for offering such a great Masterclass. I have now completed the Remote Design Sprint Masterclass to keep adding value as a workshopper. Excited to keep solving, validating and getting businesses to new levels of success!"
Vasu Kolla
"It's been fun going through AJ&Smart design sprint masterclass on Sprint 2.0, the new and improved design sprint process (only 4 days).
Thanks AJ&Smart, Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney #designsprint #designthinking"
CameronGallacher
"I've always been impressed by how effective Design Sprints are at helping teams solve problems, learn faster, and build better products, so I am very happy to have completed the AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass to level up my facilitation skills, understand the Design Sprint process more deeply, and how I can apply the methods from it in my day to day work."
SonjaSayer
"Since becoming a Product Manager I’ve needed to upskill in several categories, but of all of the skills I’ve been building, I believe that the facilitation of design thinking has been the most essential. So, I educated myself and now I'm certified to facilitate design thinking practices that create and test new product concepts in a matter of days, and I can do it in-person or remotely, though I’ve already been practicing on the job for some time. Thanks for the education AJ&Smart Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano Jake Knapp (and others behind the scenes who produce the content, host Q&As, make YouTube and Instagram content, etc.) and the surrounding learning community."
Daphne S. Leger
" "I am still learning" wrote Michelangelo, at age 87. Me too! Excited to add the Google-born DESIGN SPRINT to my Innovation toolkit and looking forward to facilitating Sprints for any challenge that is keeping your team up at night and that you want to push to a prototyped solution in just one week! Thanks for a super dynamic & practical course @Aj&Smart"
THOMASPENTZ
FidesFierz
"It was so much fun updating my skills re Design Sprints and Facilitation with AJ&Smart and learn from the best!
Thank you much to the team at AJ&Smart , esp Ryan de Metz , and most of all thanks to Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney --- the first for creating such an awesome "recipe" for product innovation, the second for packing it up so generously into such an awesome Masterclass - and for keeping to add to it! Thanks guys!!"
HanYang
"🎉 Exciting update! Recently, I completed the Design Sprint Masterclass by AJ&Smart . And I'm now certified as a Design Sprint Facilitator! 👩🎓🥳
An exceptional approach for teams to create and test product concepts in just 4 days. It is an interesting and effective process that even non-designers can use design thinking to innovate and validate solutions. 🔮💡
Huge thanks to the team AJ&Smart , Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney & Dee Scarano for this awesome course!! Cheers! 🍻🍻🍻"
ShannonLewandowski
"A huge Thank You to AJ&Smart for creating this exceptional Masterclass and online community. We’ve witnessed how the Design Sprint 2.0 approach can rapidly solve complex problems for our clients, compressing months of work into a few days. But, what do I love most about the Design Sprint methodology?✅ It is Inclusive: Each voice and idea on the team is heard
✅ An Effective Framework: You do not need to be creative to participate
✅ Work Together, Alone: Enables you to think deeply as an individual, and come together as a team to share and vote.
Thank you to Dee Scarano, Jonathan Courtney, Jake Knapp, for sharing your knowledge, tips, templates, and tricks for more effective design sprints."
AndrewHawari
"Yes, I am now #certified #designsprint #facilitator 🤓😊🎉
It's been amazing to update my skills to the understand of the #designsprints 2.0. #designsprints 2.0 is the most up-to-date version of the Design Sprints process.
Now it is possible to solve problems and test new ideas in 4 days instead of 5.
Big thanks to Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano AJ&Smart"
Prabhani ThembiliyaGodage
"✅ A few months back I decided to learn how to facilitate a sprint from the best sprint practitioners in the world.
Thank you, Jonathan Courtney, Jake Knapp, and AJ&Smart team for delivering such a great learning experience. I am very thankful for the eco-system, and the support you provide to improve continuously.
🙏"
Andrea G. Escamilla
"I loved this masterclass to help complement my facilitator skills! It was so fun to learn this process that started at Google Ventures. I'm so excited to start testing it out."
SepidehSalimi
"Design Sprint is the best way to solve big problems and test new ideas in just 4 days, created by Jake Knapp.It will not only helps you to move faster and stronger it gives you a new perspective in design.
Thank you Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, Dee Scarano, and the amazing AJ&Smart team to help others to upgrade their skills in such a fun way 😍"
EdoardoBenedetto
"Never stop learning #designsprint 2.0
The new and improved process which started in GV - Google Ventures by Jake Knapp.
Thanks for AJ&Smart and Jonathan Courtney for lessons!"
KaranTaparia
"Jonathan Courtney, AJ&Smart, exceptional team, helping me master the concepts with lessons which were organic and well-structured. Enrolling myself in this course #designsprintmasterclass was the best gift I could have given myself. With detailed explanations, live Q&A sessions, add-on courses and everything else in between, this course has been an enjoyable learning experience.
Thanks to Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney AJ&Smart making it possible for professionals like me to continue to learn and stay ahead in the game!! #designsprints #productdesign"
NikitaKanade
"🎉 Exciting announcement! New skillset added 😊 I am now a #certified #designsprint #facilitator 🎉
Design Sprint helps to radically improve the digital product design process by aligning product teams to consolidate months worth of work in just a few days. You get to test new ideas with real user with a prototype in just 4 days without writing a single line of code 👌
Originally formulated by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures and further refined by Jonathan Courtney and the team of AJ&Smart Thank you for the awesome course!"
Bartvan Gompel
"🥳 Just received my certificate for completing the Design Sprint Masterclass 👨🎓 by AJ&Smart .
If you're interested in facilitating Design Sprints yourself, I can highly recommend this course! 👍👍👍 Sooo much valuable information!!"
"A few months ago, I wanted to integrate and apply more the design sprint approaches in my work, so I decided to enroll in AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass to learn how to run efficient and structured workshops. I enjoyed their concise and detailed methods mixed with HCD, lean approaches, and effectively straight to the point on problem-solving and decision-making.
Thank you, Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, Dee Scarano & the whole AJ&Smart team to help me upgrade my skills in such a fun way, and get me to think through the purpose-driven design process by practicing the exercises. Right now, I'm looking forward to helping teams create better, more innovative products."
AlinaNastas
"⚡ One of the many good things that I was inspired to start and accomplish during the lock-down is the AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass.
While there is still a long way to go until I can really call myself a facilitator and a problem solver with Design Sprint process, I have a good feeling about what I learned, what I still lack and what I can already bring to the table.
Dee Scarano, it was a pleasure to follow you through the entire course 💜. Thank you!
Jake Knapp, Jonathan Courtney, a big thank you to you too!
#designsprints #facilitation #workshop #innovation"
Andres Jordan Zeballos
"I have been learning and running Design Sprints for the last 4 years (50+) with big companies, startups, non-tech ventures and now with the government, always is a challenge but finally I could get the certification.I took the opportunity to refine my concepts, tools and learn more about Remote Design Sprints because it's very important during lockdown.
I'm happy to have learned more about Design Sprint started by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures and iterated on by Jonathan Courtney and the AJ&Smart team.
Thanks to Jake Knapp Jonathan Courtney Dee Scarano AJ&Smart
#designsprint #designsprints #keeplearning"
MylesClemones
"Great time updating my skills and deepening my under-standing of the Design Sprint 2.0 methodology with ex-Googler and Sprint Creator Jake Knapp, alongside Jonathan Courtney and Dee Scarano from AJ&Smart."
ChereChete
"I recently became a huge AJ&Smart fan while researching Design Thinking - I’m almost finished taking the Design Sprint Masterclass, and I used one of our team’s challenges to practice each of the exercises (by myself).
All the exercises are easy to do, you’ve simpilfied everything, made it so easy it understand and try. I am thrilled to have your support - I can truly say I am learning how to run a design sprint in a way that I can actually implement it.
The Decision Jams are a great first step and are helping me to gain confidence and to introduce the idea to others."
FelipePontes
"👏👏👏1000 Slaps!👏👏👏
Just finished a 3-day Design Sprint (15 hours in total) for a big Japanese telecom company at US$ 20,000! 🗾⛩🚀
We’re running sprints mainly in Japan now, but we’re also open to doing it all over Asia. If you need any help around here, feel free to hit me up!"
TeddyWilhelm
"It was super nice, well AWESOME really, that you, the team and Jake created content and designed this course that's this good! I'm feeling very inspired and grateful to have found this and to be taking the course right now. I'm LOVING IT! and practically high fiving you guys every time I read through the info in each course section and download the materials.
My product design and facilitation toolbox is looking like one a design superhero would have now! And as someone that's written training course content for some of Detroit's big 3 ( Ford and FCA) and has read every UX design and product design book I can get my hands on, my heart signs seeing how well written, organized, designed, engaging, relevant, timely practical, tactical and useful this content is for the real world for product design teams and sprint facilitators. It's masterful and lives up to the title of Design Facilitation MASTERS class! Thank you and hat's off to you guys for creating something this outstanding and for the incredible impact this course is going to have on so many peoples careers!"
BillAlexy
"Last Thursday we ran a two hour decision jam. Since I have permission and the purpose and client are obscured I thought I’d share the outcome here. I owe so much to the book Sprint and the generosity of AJ&Smart. For the sake of selling this jam we called it a Design Jam. It’s basically the solution sketching part of the full sprint squeezed bet-ween the beginning and ending steps of the decision jam.
The problem, other than the design issue we were tackling, was the slowness of decisions and constant iterations we were building to accommodate their brilliant Chief Marketing Officer. The project was poorly scoped. We warned our client of the problem that they weren’t forecasting how large this project was (we are subcontracting to a development consultancy) and we all prepared for the eventual chaos.
With the right communication and gentle reminders we were able to take advantage of the situation with the full support of our client and the business that hired us. The result was very positive. Thank you AJ&Smart Design Sprint Masterclass, Jonathan, Dee, and Laura for the positive energy you exude, the business value you bring, and dedication to your craft."
TIAGOMORGADO
"Goodies from AJ&Smart!! Design Sprint Masterclass was amazing!!! Thanks for sharing the knowledge, you guys are the best!
#designsprint #designsprints #productdesign #uxui #uxdesign"
Lisa Lee Hamilton
"Y’all (I’m from Texas..), if you’ve been to the fence about purchasing the Design Sprint Masterclass, take my advice - do it. Do it now. Over the last six months, I’ve run five design sprints. I’m in Human Resources, and we’ve been working on program designs using the design sprint. I’ve been self-taught using all the open source info out there, and of course AJ&Smart YouTube videos.
However, this week, I ran my first design sprint, based on the content from the Masterclass and WOW… my confidence, the outcome, the participant experience was all wonderful. AJ&Smart - y’all have done us all wonderful service by offering this class, and I’ll be referencing it many times over.
So, y’all. Buy it. Happy Friday, Happy Sprinting!"
SabrinaGoerlich
Gilang andiPRadana
JudithCardenas
"Thank you Jonathan Courtney, Laura Faint and the entire team. I successfully worked with a group last week in Ohio and the results were amazing. Thank youu !!!!"
ShenjaJeworek
"Look at that box of awesomeness that I just received 🎉🤟🏻Thanks so much ❤️"
DavidHoll
"I just finished the Masterclass and holy hell* was it great! Thank you. I’ve run a dozen or so sprints in the past (all in-house) and this course gave me so much new useful information. I’m excited to get out there and start selling sprints. I’ll add some notes and questions I wrote while watching in the comments.
* I’m in America, so I edited out all the swear words 😉"
Feedback from an Anonymous Student Survey
"I used the resources you provided as a basis for creating and running an event with 9 parallel design sprints at once. It was so well received that we have scheduled two more in the next six months. A big thanks to you guys (and Jake) for the inspiration and guidance along the way!”
"Excellent course. I love the AJSMART silly humor alongside great training. The community and availability of the team to answer questions is a definite differentiator.”
"This was the best design course I have ever done before!"
"This was the best design course I have ever done before!"
"Masterclass material is fantastic. The course curriculum or even the process itself is very customizable. Thanx so much for doing this!"
"Just keep on going guys! You rock and it was all really helpful for my career AND for me as a person."
"Super thought out and well presented course that’s easy to follow and dip back into when needed...Nice work you guys. Pretty rockstar team you have there.”
"Amazing masterclass, I'm excited to do more design sprints in the future"
"Adding this to my professional identity and brand has been a great advantage to me as a UX/product designer, in terms of my ability to speak to the process, use the process and my work, and act as a resource to others. The community is also incredibly helpful and one of the most valuable parts of the experience for me. I would love to see more community building opportunities developed :)”
"Hi team! Thank you so much for a life-changing training. I owe you a video testimonial and want to continue to be a champion for this amazing group."
"You rock, guys!"
"Facilitator tips were very helpful!"
"You're doing really good work on the design sprint. It has grown over the years and now there are many different formats based on the design sprint and facilitating workshops has gotten a different dimension thanks to the design sprint."
"I took the course to add on to my UX training I do right now during the forced covid19 holiday and to improve on my skillset and grow as a designer in general. To improve my experiences during the design sprint masterclass I would like to see additional demo examples to get a better impression on different aspects and approaches besides the big tech company cases. Overall I am very happy with the course."
"This masterclass helped me a lot. Thank you so much, AJ&Smart - please keep doing what you do best: educating and helping designers to grow"
Feedback from an Anonymous Student Survey
"I used the resources you provided as a basis for creating and running an event with 9 parallel design sprints at once. It was so well received that we have scheduled two more in the next six months. A big thanks to you guys (and Jake) for the inspiration and guidance along the way!”
"Excellent course. I love the AJSMART silly humor alongside great training. The community and availability of the team to answer questions is a definite differentiator.”
"This was the best design course I have ever done before!"
"This was the best design course I have ever done before!"
"Masterclass material is fantastic. The course curriculum or even the process itself is very customizable. Thanx so much for doing this!"
"Just keep on going guys! You rock and it was all really helpful for my career AND for me as a person."
"Super thought out and well presented course that’s easy to follow and dip back into when needed...Nice work you guys. Pretty rockstar team you have there.”
"Amazing masterclass, I'm excited to do more design sprints in the future"
"Adding this to my professional identity and brand has been a great advantage to me as a UX/product designer, in terms of my ability to speak to the process, use the process and my work, and act as a resource to others. The community is also incredibly helpful and one of the most valuable parts of the experience for me. I would love to see more community building opportunities developed :)”
"Hi team! Thank you so much for a life-changing training. I owe you a video testimonial and want to continue to be a champion for this amazing group."
"You rock, guys!"
"Facilitator tips were very helpful!"
"You're doing really good work on the design sprint. It has grown over the years and now there are many different formats based on the design sprint and facilitating workshops has gotten a different dimension thanks to the design sprint."
"I took the course to add on to my UX training I do right now during the forced covid19 holiday and to improve on my skillset and grow as a designer in general. To improve my experiences during the design sprint masterclass I would like to see additional demo examples to get a better impression on different aspects and approaches besides the big tech company cases. Overall I am very happy with the course."
"This masterclass helped me a lot. Thank you so much, AJ&Smart - please keep doing what you do best: educating and helping designers to grow"
