Design Sprint
Five days. One decision.
We facilitate structured design sprints that move your team from open question to tested prototype in a single week — with a documented result.
Itinerary
Monday to Friday — every day with a clear output.
No workshop theatre, focused work. Every day ends with an artifact that makes the next day possible.
sprint.itinerary
5 days · 1 problem
Day 01
Monday
Understand & frame
We pull stakeholders, data and the sprint question into one map and define the criterion of success.
- Expert interviews
- How-might-we
- Long-term goal
Day 02
Tuesday
Sketch & diverge
Everyone in the room develops their own solutions — crazy 8s, solution sketches, rapid variants.
- Lightning demos
- Crazy 8s
- Solution sketches
Day 03
Wednesday
Decide
Silent review, heatmap, straw poll and a final decision — the storyboard for the prototype.
- Heatmap vote
- Storyboard
- Decision maker
Day 04
Thursday
Prototype
We build a clickable, believable high-fidelity prototype — no pixel debate, a real test.
- Click prototype
- Test script
- Recruit check
Day 05
Friday
Test & learn
Five testers, five interviews, documented insights — and a clearly formulated set of next steps.
- User tests
- Insights map
- Next-step plan
Outcome
What sits on the table after Friday.
No slide show — three concrete artifacts you can take into any steering committee.
Prototype
1
Clickable high-fidelity prototype, tested with real users.
Interviews
5
Moderated user tests with documented observations.
Decision
∑
Reasoned go / no-go including next step and owner.
By the numbers
This is hafencity.dev
15+ Experts
Engineers, designers, and strategists working as one practice from our Hamburg HQ.
50+ Clients
Companies across consumer, healthcare, and B2B trust us with their digital products. Long-term partnerships are the default.
97% Recommendation rate
Repeat engagements and references our buyers actually call. Trust compounds when delivery does.
50+ Launches
Custom mobile and web products shipped from concept to maintenance — owned end-to-end by our team.
100% In-house
Strategy, design, and engineering all live at our Hamburg HQ. One team, one project lead, accountable to you from kickoff to launch.
Since 2023
Helping companies ship digital products — and growing alongside the teams we work with.
Next steps
Let's talk about your project
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll review your goals, surface unknowns, and outline how we would run the engagement.
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