I’m unsure if this is a purely Google thing or specifically my team—but are you as a designer expected to run design sprints and workshops? It’s pretty much become synonymous with my jobs and if I don’t run them it’s considered a bad thing. I’m thinking of jumping ship but want to know if this is something most other designers are required to do as well at their teams and companies.
Not a requirement but a great skill to have.
Absolutely! It’s part of the job.
Running a design sprint depends on your level and scope of influence. Junior designers are not expected to run a sprint because workshops and sprints and meant to solve larger, ambiguous problems, and your level of responsibility might not be there yet. But yes, at a senior design level you’re expected to drive more impact, and a workshop is one way you can do that.
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I do a lot of the times.. but because without it, there would be no discipline or structure to anything. I find it’s helpful group therapy for getting stakeholder buy in. The work can be easy and simple but sprints have saved me from “death by a thousand meetings” and “word document annotation hell”, both of which are extremely common at MSFT because no one knows product.