Test multiple ideas Hackathon-style with Student Design Sprints

Design Sprints with next-gen talent

In just 5 days, your team can rapidly test ideas, validate products, and uncover fresh insights - powered by Google Venture’s proven Design Sprint framework and the creativity of top Gen-Z digital students.

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Design Sprints are a fast way to test ideas on target users with immediate results reducing risk and high development costs.

Perfect for

🚀 Innovation Managers testing ideas.
🧪 Product Managers seeking user validation.
✨ Market Leaders driving creative strategies.
🌟 CXOs pursuing bold innovation.

"Maria guided six groups of students, enabling us to explore a variety of ideas and innovative solutions."

— Philomène Tellaroli, Founder Séléné Helios, Paris, France

Design Sprint Process

One week is a perfect time frame to design and test an idea with target users. You are welcome to join the sprint for as long (or as little) as you like!

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Understand and 📍map the challenge in detail, 💡brainstorm effectively then sketch out possible solutions. Democratically ✅ decide on the ultimate solution, create high-fidelity 👩🏻‍💻 prototypes then 🧪 test the solution on real users. Finally, 🎤present back learnings and decide on the next iterations!

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What you Get

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🔍 Real User Research on your product, service, or website.

💡 Innovative ideas shaped by Gen-Z creativity/trends.

🛠️ Tested prototypes with source files you can build on.

📊 Actionable insights into user needs and behaviour.

🎓 A talent pipeline of digital experts for internships, apprenticeships, and hires.

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"A heartfelt thank you for your guidance throughout this amazing week. We were deeply impressed by the students’ dedication and enthusiasm for tackling this project and its challenges."

— Corporate Fundraising Officer for NGO in Lausanne, Switzerland

Commitment

⏰ 3 hours. Join me for a kickoff call, brief the students and watch the final presentations.

We provide you with a sprint report of User Tested projects and Figma design files following the sprint. Or, join us for more of the sprint - it’s up to you!

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Facilitated by a professional Design Sprint Master, keeping students motivated and pushing for high-quality results we ensure your sprint will be a success!

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Benefits of Design Sprints with students:

  • 💡 Rapidly uncover user insights, solve complex problems, and test ideas.

  • 🌍 Different perspectives for your challenge through a creative process.

  • 📣 Increased brand awareness for a 20-25-year-old age group.

  • 🎓 Screening for talent (internships, apprenticeships, graduate jobs).

  • 🚀 Accelerate product development and launch faster.

We work with these Tech and Business Schools

Paris, France and Lausanne & Geneva, Switzerland

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Planning the new user test flow
Sharing a first iteration of idea sketches
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Monitoring a user test - students are very professional in their User Testing and interviewing and are trained on protocol.
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