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Pre:Sprint
The Pre:Sprint takes place before running a Design Sprint or creating a product Strategy. It provides your organization with insights and custom tools that help guide responsible and ethical product decisions.
The Pre:Sprint is a critical part of the product planning & development process for any business adopting a commitment to responsible innovation. It ensures that your product initiative meets the ethical standards that modern consumers, partners, and investors expect to see.

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Design Sprint
Our remote-run Design Sprints are often used at the start of an engagement to validate and fine-tune your organization’s product concept but can be used at any point in product development. The Design Sprint is Google Venture’s battle-tested framework that the best companies around the world use to help define what they bring to market.
The Blue Label Labs remote Design Sprint is conducted as a series of 7 workshop sessions over the course of 2-3 weeks. We provide you with a customized, cross-functional team to co-create alongside your team. Together, we’ll achieve meaningful outcomes.
Design Sprint Benefits:
- Focused, collaborative teamwork from day one
- Efficiency in discovering what to build (and what not to build)
- Quick identification of opportunities and differentiators
- Quick adoption of a Human-Centered mindset
- Cross-functional alignment and understanding of the product mission and goals
- Rapid trust and relationship building between all participants
- Expert guidance and coaching from your Design Sprint facilitator
Outcomes:
- A validated product concept or feature set
- A clickable prototype of your product concept
- Product feedback from your target users
- Executive Summary of lessons learned
- Documentation of all session outcomes
- A clear outline of the next steps

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Innovation & Strategy
The Innovation & Strategy organization at Blue Label Labs is deeply involved in all new client engagements and is our mechanism to transform an initial product concept into a meaningful and beloved product.
This engagement can begin after a remote Design Sprint, or as a kick-off to your project.
This phase of product development includes:
- Human-centered competitive analysis
- User Insights to understand your target users better than anyone else does
- Co-creation workshops to generate ideas and solutions
- Stress-testing solutions via real-world feedback
- Testing multiple ideas with various cohorts to find market fit
- The creation of user personas
- A validated product strategy
- Your product roadmap
- Clear product goals and KPIs

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Branding
Depending on the product need, we can either move into a full product brand design engagement; adopt an existing brand and associated guidelines; or modify an existing brand.
Outputs:
- Visual Moodboard
- Naming
- Written Tone of Voice
- Logo System
- Visual Identity
- Art Direction
- Brand Guidelines
Goals:
- To create the polished brand that users today demand
- To have assets ready to move into product design

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Design & User Testing
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Work with our Product Design team to create an elegant design that incorporates the latest trends and capabilities.
Outputs:
- User Experience (UX) design
- User Interface (UI) design
- Clickable prototype of core screens
- Qualitative & quantitative user testing
Goals:
- To gather feedback for correct prioritization of features prior to coding/development
To iterate on the concept and design before spending any time coding/in-development



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Development & Testing
Agility is the name of the game. Our scrum-based Agile development methodology ensures frequent builds and gives you plenty of time to test and adjust. While our experienced Quality Assurance (QA) team will identify and manage testing.
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Outputs:
- Fully tested and QA’d front-end and/or back-end code that matches agreed-upon specifications
Goals:
- To ensure a product is as bug free as possible at launch
- To ensure the product works as expected

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Marketing & Growth Strategy
No app launch plan is complete without the proper marketing, PR and engagement tools to help it get discovered and retain users.
Outputs:
- Introductions to the right marketing partner(s) with the skillset and testing strategy needed for the product
Goals:
- To ensure a test driven marketing strategy allowing for quick learning and and efficient use of capital
- To help prioritize new feature development based on marketing learnings


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Post-Launch Support
The journey of a digital product doesn’t end at launch, it begins. Having a team like Blue Label Labs to continue to support the product long-term and determine how to improve it over time is the difference between a successful product and one that’s destined for the graveyard.
Outputs:
- On-going support and management of the post-launch product
- Design and development of new features based on marketing data, analytics data and ongoing quantitative & qualitative user testing
Goals:
- To evolve the product iteratively
- To ensure we have the data to determine which features & functionality to build next and/or change to fit the needs of (new) customers
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