The Idea Validation Sprint

Transform Early Ideas into Testable Realities in just two weeks

Overcome the biggest challenges in the early stages of your project, clarify your vision, align your team, and accelerate your project.

Save weeks or months of valuable time and give your vision the momentum it needs to come to life.

Early-stage ideas are delicate, and turning them into reality can be a challenge. It’s especially hard to move forward when your idea is still fuzzy. This custom two-week design sprint is crafted to quickly transform your initial digital product ideas into testable artefacts so you can explore different directions quickly, gain alignment, and reduce project risk.

Quickly getting to something material helps wrangle the different perspectives that can slow down progress, and also prove out an idea before committing resources. We also think beyond the sprint, laying the groundwork for future growth and success.

Sprint Examples

Recently idea validation sprints have included:

Create a visual story to build alignment within your team;
Create a landing page to test a business concept;
Create a visual identity for a proposed app or podcast series;
Distill a complex story into simple visuals so you can raise funding;
Perform a quick feasibility study on an idea before building it out

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

We’ll 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.

Make

We begin by really understanding your idea and your vision, and the problem you’re trying to solve, then we’ll run through a set of exercises to quickly cycle through possibilities. We’ll then create an artefact that makes sense to tell your story, it could be a prototype, a visual identity, a landing page or a presentation depending on your needs.

Feedback

In the second week, we’ll test the artefact and gather feedback. We’ll take early feedback and keep refining the artefact based on what we see and hear from the testing. By the end of the week we’ll have the refined artefact and a report detailing what we learned and outlining next steps and setting you up for the future. .

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 how to take an idea from a spark to something real.

Whether you’re starting with a napkin sketch or a vague concept, we know how to quickly turn those early-stage ideas into tangible, testable outcomes. We’ve done it with startups, non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies, and we’re ready to do it 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

How to crypto? Ask the honey badger. This app offers buying, selling, and holding of cryptocurrencies, with the honey badger guiding users to earn as they learn.

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.

Polkadot (DOT) is essentially this multichain network that has the primary goal of connecting different, specialised blockchain networks into one single unified network.

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.