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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.

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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.

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5 days · 1 problem

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Day 03

    Wednesday

    Decide

    Silent review, heatmap, straw poll and a final decision — the storyboard for the prototype.

    • Heatmap vote
    • Storyboard
    • Decision maker
  4. Day 04

    Thursday

    Prototype

    We build a clickable, believable high-fidelity prototype — no pixel debate, a real test.

    • Click prototype
    • Test script
    • Recruit check
  5. 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

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