What Is the Simplest Way to Create a Prototype During a Design Sprint?

What Is the Simplest Way to Create a Prototype During a Design Sprint?

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In short: Use Canva's templates for fast and easy prototypes, for example:

  • Canva Flyer templates

  • Canva Website templates

  • Canva Video templates


Start with Canva Templates

The very simple design tool Canva has a ton of different templates that exist. For a design sprint, I recommend that if you're not very strong with prototyping or you're completely new to it, use the power of these templates from Canva as a starting point.

Search and Select

Basically, you'll just have to type in the search bar of Canva the type of thing that you want to prototype.

What type of templates to look for

What could you use as a prototype? A flyer, a website, a video. All of these things can be used for many design sprint results. And there are very good templates for all of them within Canva.

These prototypes explain very well what a service is and often they are one of the first interactions that people have with a potential service they want to join or buy.

Q&A: Design Sprints and Service Design

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Prototyping and Design Sprints

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