The Rescue Design Sprint

Fix underperforming digital products and design processes in just 2 weeks

Dive into your project’s challenges, pinpoint issues, and create an actionable plan that unlocks the potential of your product, app or website.

From critical issues to chronic problems.

Rescue Sprints cut through the chaos so you can make sense of issues affecting your project’s performance or conversion. Quickly diagnose and remedy everything from mild underperformance to serious design issues. Each sprint delivers a clear path forward, giving you actionable steps to unlock the full potential of your project.

Reign in problem projects.

Are you missing deadlines? On average, falling behind by just one week per month can cost a three-person team close to $60,000 a year. Rescue Sprints identify issues under the hood that are creating costly delays and provide prescriptions to get your project moving more efficiently.

Sprint Examples

Here are some things we’ve helped with in the past:

Fix an onboarding experience, increase adoption and reduce churn
Analyse and optimise an underperforming conversion funnel
Streamline your product process to avoid cost and time overruns
Optimise a checkout flow and increase sales
Clean up an ineffective presentation or pitch deck
Clear up a landing page to craft a better offer and increase conversion

What is a sprint?

A design sprint is a time-boxed process that lets you take on complex challenges through sketching, prototyping, and testing. The short time frame and the fact that it’s separate from your day to day helps break out of boxes, foster creativity and create alignment.

Design sprints provide a structured framework for identifying and addressing key challenges or opportunities, enabling teams to bring clarity and focus to complex problems.

Design sprints focus on rapid prototyping and user testing, allowing teams to quickly validate assumptions, gather feedback, iterate on potential solutions, meet user needs or expectations and reduce risks when developing products and features.

How It Works

Free Call

start with a free 30-minute call where you can describe your challenges to us. We’ll discuss possible approaches and how we might structure a sprint tailored specifically for you and your team. If it feels like the right fit, we’ll design the sprint and plan the activities to address your unique needs.

Diagnosis

We begin by gathering all your relevant documents and conducting a thorough audit of your site or process. This includes further research, interviews, and data analysis to gain a deep understanding of what’s going on. From there, we start diagnosing any issues within your flows or processes.

Prescription

In the second week, we validate the themes identified in the first week and explore opportunities based on our observations. This might involve mockups, diagrams, or prototypes. We then test possible remedies and create a tailored prescription, including a playbook with measurable goals to help you achieve your targets.

How much can happen in just a handful of days? More than you might think.

If you’re ready to accelerate your project, or if you’re just sprint-curious, let’s talk.

About Codename

Futurebits Sprints are powered by Codename Design—an award-winning agency with a 15-year track record of designing and leading successful digital products and websites. Our roots run deep, starting as the two-time Emmy-nominated product team for a startup that exited in 2009. With over 30 years of experience each, our principals know what works and what doesn’t in both the startup world and large-scale enterprise environments. We know how to navigate complex projects in sectors like education, healthcare, and exponential technologies.

Whether you need to optimise a user journey, redesign critical screens, or increase customer conversion, we’ve been there and done that. We’ve crafted experiences and flows for startups, non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies, and we’re ready to optimise your product with you.

The team at Codename Design are lighting in a bottle. They move fast, read between the lines to understand what we need and work through our ideas to shape them into something great every time.

Chris Hunter,
Galoy Co-founder

Recent Sprints

Undernouns is an in-progress proposal to the community for a Small Grant to create a parallel auction site based on the Nouns NFT project.

Circle of Friends is a proposed app to help you help the friends, family or loved ones in your life who may be suffering with depression.

A podcast series about the mystery caused by a human-made chemical that environmental regulators should have known about but didn’t... a flexible visual concept.

FAQs

Why two weeks instead of one week?
Well, we can certainly get a lot done in a week. These prints are designed to allow your team to dip in and out throughout the two weeks we found this to be better in terms of disrupting the team, and also gives us more time to test it on the testing before we hand off at the end of two weeks.

Will we have a working product after two weeks?
Sprints are designed to deliver many different types of outcomes, for the most part they’re designed to get you something tangible to test so you can get feedback and ensure you’re headed in the right direction quickly.

How many people from my team need to attend?
This depends primarily on two things: the nature of your team, and the challenge we’re going to undertake. It’s something we discuss on our call. The sprints are designed to have as low an impact on your team as possible, but we can discuss the benefits of having certain types of input and we can decide together what the best size and mix of team is. Common wisdom is to keep them at seven or fewer.

What if we want the sprint to be in person?
Our sprints are designed to work remotely, but we can definitely do that. Someone from our team can be there through part or all of the sprint.

What’s this money back guarantee?
We’re confident that we can take a big leap with you and your team in meeting your challenge. If we haven’t made the progress that we agreed to at the beginning of the sprint, we have two options: we’ll either extend the sprint until we’ve hit the agreed target or we refund your money.

Who owns the work?
We’re going to bring a lot of our proprietary knowledge and assets to the table in the form of methods, templates and activities, but anything that gets produced during those two weeks is considered work product and that’s yours.

What if you need us to sign an NDA?
Not a problem, send it to us before our kick off call, or ask us for ours.

So, you want to change the world? Here’s how sprints can help.