Design sprints for integrating artificial intelligence

Design sprints for integrating artificial intelligence: turning ideas into innovative AI solutions

Why are design sprints essential for AI integration? In the digital transformation era, integrating artificial intelligence into your products and services can set your business apart and optimize operations. AI offers immense opportunities but also significant risks—legal, technological, or reputational if your customers and users reject it. Instead of just speculating, design sprints provide an agile framework to explore, test, and validate AI applications, speeding up the development of solutions that meet the precise needs of your users and the goals of your organization.

Rapid and iterative innovation

Transform your AI integration ideas into prototypes quickly with design sprints. Test concepts in a few days and adjust your strategies in real time to better meet market demands.

Risk reduction in development

Validate AI assumptions without heavy investments in resources or time. Design sprints allow you to discover what works and what doesn’t in a controlled setting, thus reducing technological, brand image, or financial risks.

Enhancing user experience

By directly involving end-users in the testing process, design sprints ensure that AI solutions are intuitive, useful, and well-received by the market.

Competitive advantage

Be among the first to launch AI solutions that not only meet but exceed customer expectations, thereby solidifying your position as an innovation leader in your industry.

Get involved

You are the experts in your field. The key to a successful Design Sprint is to bring together a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-7 people. We require a minimum of three days’ effective presence (workshop part).

Your team is also invited to prototype and watch Live testing on Day 5.

Our AI integration design services include:

  • Design sprint workshops: Intensive sessions to identify AI integration opportunities, design solutions, and quickly test hypotheses.
  • AI prototype design: Building testable simulations of your AI solutions on Figma to assess their effectiveness and market acceptance before deployment.
  • AI usability testing: Evaluating AI solutions with real users to refine the user interface and functionalities.
  • Strategic analysis: Analyzing market trends and user behaviors to guide the development of AI solutions.

To discover how Design Sprints can help your company integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize processes and enhance customer satisfaction, contact us.

They sprint with us

Great competences to find tested solutions within a short laps of time to enable the right focus in your development and innovation process.
Vincent Rittener , Segment Manager B2C Romande Energie
Steph did a great job guiding us through this week. Highly valuable and very worthwhile! If you want to make fast progress with a specific project, do a Design Sprint with an expert such as Steph.
Felix von Kunhardt , VP Product Management Decibel - Medallia
I can't recommend Steph highly enough! He was an excellent facilitator for my team's design sprint. The process helped us better understand our users' needs and unlock a greater level of creativity. We are based in San Francisco, and even working 'off hours' and facilitating virtually, Steph's energy was contagious.
Noreen McInnis , Product Marketing at Adobe
💙 Super souvenir Steph ! Un grand merci pour ton aide 🙏 et on a en effet fini par dev est commercialiser 100% de ce qui est sorti du sprint !When there is a will there is a way 💪
Clement Goehrs , MD - PhD, Synapse Medicine CEO
Steph and the team expertly guided us through the entire process, and really turned the fact it was remote from a potential negative to an amazing positive. By the end of it, we’d made incredible progress, accelerated months of product design and gained a tonne of new insight on our own customers. We also felt like we’d gained a new honorary member of the team, and a friend in the process.
Rhylan Johnson , Product Manager

Design sprint in Transportation sector

Accelerate innovation in the public transportation sector with Design Sprint

Tailored solutions for complex urban transport challenges

Our expertise with major entities such as STIB in Brussels and TL in Lausanne demonstrates our ability to transform public transportation services. With Design Sprint, we have tackled various challenges, from improving business processes to implementing innovative infrastructures.

Why is Design Sprint essential for public transport?

Project diversity, yet a repeatable and scalable methodology
Whether it’s infrastructure projects, business tool design, or service optimization, our approach is proven. We have led transformative projects that have directly improved operational efficiency and user experience in the transportation sector.

Collaboration and innovation

Our workshops bring together decision-makers, technicians, and end-users to work together on concrete solutions. This collaborative approach ensures that the solutions developed are not only innovative but also perfectly aligned with the real needs of users and the strategic objectives of companies.

Success examples with STIB and TL

STIB-MIVB Brussels: 3 years of productive collaboration

STIB is the equivalent of RATP for the Brussels region, a major company in Belgium with 10,000 employees. Over three years, we have conducted more than 10 Design Sprints on various innovation projects with cross-silo teams created for the occasion. Innovative ideas were transformed into functional prototypes, focusing efforts on improving customer experience, sustainability, operational efficiency, and safety.

TL Lausanne: Innovation in French-speaking Switzerland

With TL, we worked on complex digital solutions related to passenger information or MaaS (Mobility as a Service).
Our specialized services for the public transportation sector

Design Sprint workshops for transportation

We offer 5-day workshops that allow public transport teams to tackle very complex specific issues, align, innovate quickly, and test solutions in real conditions.

Prototype development for transportation

Our team helps design and create prototypes that meet the specific requirements of public transport, allowing for continuous evaluation and improvement before final implementation by IT teams or external providers.

User testing and field validation

Prototypes are tested by real users, which allows for adjustments based on feedback directly from the field, thus ensuring significant improvements in terms of functionality and user satisfaction.

Transform your approach to public transportation with Design Sprint

Integrate Design Sprint into your innovation strategy to overcome complex challenges and continuously improve transport services. Contact us to discover how we can collaborate to revolutionize your public transport offerings.

Get involved

You are the experts in your field. The key to a successful Design Sprint is to bring together a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-7 people. We require a minimum of three days’ effective presence (workshop part).

Your team is also invited to prototype and watch Live testing on Day 5.

Our services for Transportation sector

  • Design Sprint Workshops: Intensive sessions to define challenges, generate solutions, prototype, and test ideas with real users.
  • Prototype Development: Rapid creation of testable product versions to gather user feedback before actual development of the product or service.
  • User Testing: Organizing feedback sessions with real users to refine products before they are launched on the market.
  • Strategic Analysis: Assessing market trends and customer needs to steer the sprints towards the most impactful solutions.

They sprint with us

Terawatt
Encore merci pour la facilitation et le prototypage, au top comme chaque fois !
Gaël Mercier - Innovation & Anticipation Officer
Bravo Julien pour ce super boulot !
Gaël Mercier - Innovation & Anticipation Officer
Je vais être court et bref. Une équipe donne le meilleur d’elle-même grâce au coaching. Vous êtes de vrais professionnels. Merci pour votre travail, soutien, expérience et j’en passe.
Mustapha Tahere , TeamLeader Traffic Management 2 STIB-MIVB
Remote design sprint for Brussels' public transportation company STIB
Steph and his team provided us with a perfect coaching / assistance for our design sprint. Highly recommended
Julien Mourlon , Digital experience advisor at SNCB
Excellente expérience! Equipe très professionnelle qui s'implique avec engagement et enthousiasme pour nous soutenir dans le challenge de nos objectifs! Nous avons pu dégager des enseignements pertinents et affiner notre approche conceptuelle grâce aux constats issus du prototype. Merci de nous avoir offert un cadre de travail performant, dans la confiance d'oser et dans la convivialité.
Pascale Hellmueller , développement organisation
Design Sprint with the public transportation company TL
Transports publics de Lausanne

Design sprint in Industry

Accelerate innovation in the industrial sector with Design Sprint

Tailored solutions for contemporary industrial challenges

Design Sprint offers a rapid, pragmatic, and proven method to tackle the complex challenges of the industrial sector. Our experience with renowned companies such as Firmenich, Neustark, Nestlé, L’Oréal, and Breguet demonstrates our ability to generate innovative solutions that promote digital transformation and business process improvement. We have worked on issues related to internal processes, employee or customer experience, and even the design of technological products in sectors like watchmaking and IoT.

Why is Design Sprint essential for the industrial sector?

Digital transformation and process optimization

Our Design Sprints facilitate the design of digital business tools and the improvement of processes to make industrial operations more efficient. These workshops allow for the rapid transformation of ideas into functional prototypes, thereby accelerating the adoption of new technologies and advanced practices.

Intersectoral collaboration and innovation in production

We bring together your experts from various industrial fields to collaborate on solutions that not only meet regulatory requirements but also support sustainable development goals. This approach allows us to leverage the best sectoral practices and the most advanced technology.

Customer experience and B2C marketing

For luxury brands, for example, we have conducted numerous Design Sprints focused on improving B2C customer experience, as well as with B2B partners. These sprints have helped to design higher quality new services, aligning offerings with consumer expectations.

Our specialized services for the industrial sector

Design Sprint for digital transformation and process optimization:
We offer design sprint workshops that help develop digital solutions and improve production and management processes.

Prototype development for the industry:

Our team guides participants in designing prototypes to test and validate innovations before their implementation.

User testing and field validation:

Prototypes are evaluated by target users to adjust solutions based on feedback, thus ensuring their effectiveness and market fit.

Transform your industrial sector with Design Sprint

Integrate Design Sprint into your innovation strategy to overcome industrial challenges and develop solutions that enhance both production and customer experience. Contact us to discover how we can help you make significant advances in your industrial projects.

Get involved

You are the experts in your field. The key to a successful Design Sprint is to bring together a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-7 people. We require a minimum of three days’ effective presence (workshop part).

Your team is also invited to prototype and watch Live testing on Day 5.

Our services for Energy sector

  • Design Sprint Workshops: Intensive sessions to define challenges, generate solutions, prototype, and test ideas with real users.
  • Prototype Development: Rapid creation of testable product versions to gather user feedback before actual development of the product or service.
  • User Testing: Organizing feedback sessions with real users to refine products before they are launched on the market.
  • Strategic Analysis: Assessing market trends and customer needs to steer the sprints towards the most impactful solutions.

They sprint with us

Excellente expérience avec le Design Sprint. Ce qu'ils "vendent", c'est simplement vrai. On a résolu une problématique en un temps record!
Thierry Dubugnon , Digital Marketing Manager chez Montres Breguet SA
Excellent methodology which puts your end users in mind all the time during Sprint. Enthusiastic facilitators from Design Sprint.
Durga Kante , R&D Product Development Specialist at Nestlé
Encore un très très grand merci à Stephane et Julien pour cette semaine riche, productive et dynamique. L’équipe est boostée à bloc avec de très belles perspectives d’innovations.
Antoine Troegeler , Marketing Director at Bolton Group
Super expérience la semaine passée avec Design Sprint. Une méthode éprouvée et vraiment différenciante qui nous a permis de gagner un temps fou.
Les animateurs ont été parfaits et on réussi l’exploit de cadrer une équipe de personnalités enthousiastes et très différentes.
Je recommande vivement les hommes et la méthode!
Matthieu Le Gendre , Responsable des projets digitaux
My first Design Sprint experience, great technic and great Team! Being able to see user tests in Live is so powerfull!!! Looking forward working with it again soon
Frank Pillonel , Senior Business Lead
First design sprint in the field of architecture with the teams of Coty Geneva.
It was amazing! We've learned so much, especially on the way we can work together across teams and create new, viable and specific ideas that we can test and bring to the market. One of the main insights that we've got is that we really have to include the people we create and sell products to.
Steven Goodman , Business Development Manager
On est dans un domaine où l'Afrique a innové, -les services financiers numériques-, et on se voit comme pionniers et c'est l'occasion encore d'innover pour apporter des produits encore plus performants à nos clients. Un grand merci à Stéph et Alexis!
Ramatoulaye Diallo Shagaya , Directrice générale Orange Money Senegal

Design Sprint in Healthcare

Accelerate innovation in the healthcare sector with Design Sprint

A strategic tool for leaders in the medical field

In the healthcare sector, where innovations can transform lives, Design Sprint is an essential tool for rapidly developing practical and innovative solutions, even in a regulated and change-resistant environment. This method allows healthcare professionals to turn their ideas into tangible solution prototypes and test them quickly, effectively meeting the urgent challenges of the healthcare and medtech worlds.

Why is Design Sprint vital for your healthcare innovation strategy?

Targeted development for medical solutions

Our sprints are specially designed to address the complex issues of the healthcare sector. They facilitate the strategic alignment of various stakeholders and prioritize essential functionalities, ensuring that each solution is perfectly adapted to the needs of patients and healthcare professionals while respecting the existing framework and budgets.

Interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare

We bring together your experts to collaborate effectively. This approach ensures the integration of all necessary perspectives to develop complete and effective solutions, meeting the high standards of the healthcare industry. Products and services that are adapted to current needs can only be designed by an interdisciplinary team working across silos. Our expert facilitators/designers will guide you, no matter the complexity of the subject.

Rapid validation and risk minimization

Design Sprint enables the acceleration of new healthcare product development while reducing technological, user experience, or legal risks. By testing prototypes in the early phases, we collect valuable feedback that allows us to adjust and improve the product, thus ensuring safe and effective solutions.

Design Sprint domaine de la santé - Hôpital Jules Gonin

Our specialized services for the healthcare sector

Design Sprint workshops in healthcare

These intensive sessions are designed to clearly identify health challenges, generate innovative solutions, prototype quickly, and test ideas with real users, often healthcare professionals or patients, to ensure that the final products meet strict requirements.

Development of prototypes for medical interfaces or business tools

We quickly create testable versions of your healthcare solutions, allowing early evaluation and adjustment based on feedback from clinical trials and medical advice.

User testing in a medical context

Organizing feedback sessions with healthcare professionals and patients helps refine products before their official launch, ensuring broad and effective adoption in clinical environments.

Design Sprint domaine de la santé - Hôpital Jules Gonin

Transform your approach to healthcare innovation

Engage in a rapid innovation process with Design Sprint and take a step ahead in developing healthcare solutions that not only meet current needs but also anticipate future challenges. Contact us to discover how we can accelerate your innovation in the healthcare field.

Get involved

You are the experts in your field. The key to a successful Design Sprint is to bring together a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-7 people. We require a minimum of three days’ effective presence (workshop part).

Your team is also invited to prototype and watch Live testing on Day 5.

Our services for key projects in Healthcare

  • Design Sprint Workshops focused on digitization: These intensive sessions are designed to identify and break down specific challenges of digital transformation, generate tailored solutions, and quickly test ideas to ensure their effectiveness and relevance.
  • Figma Prototype Design: Creating testable prototypes (usually with Figma) not only allows us to visualize the proposed solutions but also to validate their effectiveness in achieving your digitization goals.
  • User Testing: We organize feedback sessions with real users who reflect your target market to refine technologies before deployment, ensuring a smooth and effective transition to advanced digital solutions.
  • Strategic Analysis: Assessing market trends and customer needs to steer the sprints towards the most impactful solutions.

Take a step ahead in developing technological solutions that not only meet current needs but also anticipate future challenges. Contact us to discover how we can help us facilitate your digital transformation.

They sprint with us

In Warsaw
Merci de nous avoir guidés pendant ce workshop, et d'avoir rendu ce travail d'alignement stratégique très ludique ! On va recommander la méthode autour de nous!
Elodie DAHAN , Co-CSO Engineering Microfluidic expert - HemostOD
I would like to thank you for you wonderful facilitation, contribution to the ideas and of course running the best design sprint I have ever witnessed. We are looking forward to working with you in the future hairy and audacious challenges.
Deniz Gmür , Head of Product Development
💙 Super souvenir Steph ! Un grand merci pour ton aide 🙏 et on a en effet fini par dev est commercialiser 100% de ce qui est sorti du sprint !When there is a will there is a way 💪
Clement Goehrs , MD - PhD, Synapse Medicine CEO
La méthodologie Design Sprint nous a permis d’aller à l’essentiel et, surtout, de confronter tout de suite nos idées avec les besoins de nos bénéficiaires. Grâce à l’encadrement pro et chaleureux de Stéphane, ce workshop a été rafraîchissant et nous a fait gagner du temps, de l’énergie et de l’argent ! Merci !
Muriel Faienza , Fondation Asile des aveugles

Design sprints in the insurance sector

Design Sprints in the insurance sector: catalysts for innovation and customer satisfaction

Why are Design Sprints vital for insurance companies? The insurance market is characterized by intense competition and consumer freedom of choice, which drives constant innovation. Adopting Design Sprints allows your company to stay competitive, innovate quickly, and meet the growing expectations of customers.

Increased Responsiveness and Adaptation to Change

Accelerate the innovation process, solve complex problems, or integrate artificial intelligence with Design Sprints. Move from idea to prototype in just a few days, allowing for a rapid response to market trends and customer needs.

Risk reduction

Our first corporate clients were insurers. Companies like Swiss Re have turned to us because risk reduction is at the core of their culture, and Design Sprints enable this at a lower cost.

Design Sprints facilitate the experimentation and testing of new ideas with minimal investment before committing to costly developments, thus reducing financial and operational risks.

By testing concepts in the early stages, it is possible to prevent the high costs associated with large-scale development failures. The cost of a modification is 100 times lower during the design phase than after the product’s programming.

Enhancing Customer Experience

Your customers have highly volatile behaviors and can change their insurance every year.

Stand out in a competitive market by being the first to launch significant innovations that attract and retain customers over the long term.

Get involved

You are the experts in your field. The key to a successful Design Sprint is to bring together a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-7 people. We require a minimum of three days’ effective presence (workshop part).

Your team is also invited to prototype and watch Live testing on Day 5.

Our services for the insurance sector include:

  • Design Sprint Workshops: Intensive sessions to define challenges, generate solutions, prototype, and test ideas with real users.
  • Prototype Development: Rapid creation of testable product versions to gather user feedback before actual development of the product or service.
  • User Testing: Organizing feedback sessions with real users to refine products before they are launched on the market.
  • Strategic Analysis: Assessing market trends and customer needs to steer the sprints towards the most impactful solutions.

To discover how Design Sprints can propel your insurance company to new heights of innovation and customer satisfaction, contact us.

They sprint with us

Citizen workshop for the Dibs project
Excellente expérience! Equipe très professionnelle qui s'implique avec engagement et enthousiasme pour nous soutenir dans le challenge de nos objectifs! Nous avons pu dégager des enseignements pertinents et affiner notre approche conceptuelle grâce aux constats issus du prototype. Merci de nous avoir offert un cadre de travail performant, dans la confiance d'oser et dans la convivialité.
Pascale Hellmueller , développement organisation

Design sprints in digital technology & IT

Accelerate your digital transformation with Design Sprints

A strategic tool for important projects

In an era where digital transformation is crucial to stay competitive, the Design Sprint emerges as an indispensable tool. It enables technology teams to quickly turn innovative ideas into practical solutions while effectively navigating the challenges of digital transformation.

Design Sprint Yuh dream team

Why is Design Sprint essential to your digital strategy?

Targeted development for digital transformation

Our sprints are specifically designed to meet the complex demands of digitization. By focusing efforts on creating solutions that support your digital transition, we ensure that each feature is aligned with your long-term strategic vision.

Enhanced collaboration for integrated innovation

By bringing together your business and IT teams, we facilitate a collaboration that maximizes resources and talent across your organization. This multidisciplinary approach is essential to overcoming obstacles to digitization and implementing solutions that transform operations and services.

Risk Reduction: Early testing for secure market entry

Implementing Design Sprints reduces the risks associated with digitalization by testing prototypes at an early stage. This provides essential insights and allows for quick adjustments to solutions based on user feedback, improving the adoption and effectiveness of the deployed technologies.

Get involved

You are the experts in your field. The key to a successful Design Sprint is to bring together a small, multidisciplinary team of 5-7 people. We require a minimum of three days’ effective presence (workshop part).

Your team is also invited to prototype and watch Live testing on Day 5.

Our services for key projects in digital transformations

  • Design Sprint Workshops focused on digitization: These intensive sessions are designed to identify and break down specific challenges of digital transformation, generate tailored solutions, and quickly test ideas to ensure their effectiveness and relevance.
  • Figma Prototype Design: Creating testable prototypes (usually with Figma) not only allows us to visualize the proposed solutions but also to validate their effectiveness in achieving your digitization goals.
  • User Testing: We organize feedback sessions with real users who reflect your target market to refine technologies before deployment, ensuring a smooth and effective transition to advanced digital solutions.
  • Strategic Analysis: Assessing market trends and customer needs to steer the sprints towards the most impactful solutions.

Take a step ahead in developing technological solutions that not only meet current needs but also anticipate future challenges. Contact us to discover how we can help us facilitate your digital transformation.

They sprint with us

Terawatt
Notre projet Genius Loci remporte la médaille d'Or au Salon International des Inventions de Genève et le Prix du Public 2023.
Genius Loci Wins Genilem 2022 Award
Excellente prestation de Stephane et de son équipe. J'ai découvert ce processus, qui va nous faire gagner du temps et de l'efficacité pour la satisfaction client.
Joël THIEBAUT , Products & Services – Brand Experience Application Support & Technical Documentation - Manager at Somfy
Thanks folks 1 more time, really loved the process, this was a terrific introduction to Design Sprints 🙌🏻
Christophe Pasquier , CEO at Slite
Steph did a great job guiding us through this week. Highly valuable and very worthwhile! If you want to make fast progress with a specific project, do a Design Sprint with an expert such as Steph.
Felix von Kunhardt , VP Product Management Decibel - Medallia
I can't recommend Steph highly enough! He was an excellent facilitator for my team's design sprint. The process helped us better understand our users' needs and unlock a greater level of creativity. We are based in San Francisco, and even working 'off hours' and facilitating virtually, Steph's energy was contagious.
Noreen McInnis , Product Marketing at Adobe
Beaucoup de professionnalisme et une efficacité redoutable pour craquer un sujet complexe. Le cadrage apporté par la méthode a permis de mener avec discipline et bonne humeur la première étape du projet de manière accélérée. Merci et bravo. Je recommande !
Barbara Augustin , Global Product Line Manager at Somfy
Feel your company is stuck in a rut and you just can’t find that flow of design concepts anymore. I strongly recommend a design sprint with Stéphane Cruchon. It's straight to the point and brings out the best of your ideas.
Sebastien Freuler , Creative Manager at Sicpa
Over 5 days, we all together designed and reached agreements which would have taken several months considering a globally distributed teams and stakeholders. By having the stakeholders involved in its design, it lifted multiple roadblocks to proceed with its development and even enabled a dedicated budget for it.
Raphael Racine , International Customer Experience Manager