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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

562: The evolution of design sprints with Dawn Delatte and Elaina Natario

Feb 20, 2025
37:45

Chad talks with fellow thoughtboters Dawn Delatte and Elaina Natario about the evolution of design sprints within the company.

Listen to how design sprints helped shape and streamline the discovery stage of work with clients, how it helps route out what should and shouldn’t be done in a project, as well as the way thoughtbot has tweaked the formula over the years to build their own playbook.

Check out thoughtbot’s Design Sprint Guide!

Read through thoughtbot’s AI ethics guide and ask yourself thoughtbot's six key questions when working with AI.

You can find both Dawn and Elaina on LinkedIn, or through their respective thoughtbot blogs - Dawn’s Blog - Elaina’s Blog

Your host for this episode has been Chad Pytel. You can find Chad all over social media as @cpytel, or over on LinkedIn.

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