Process
Design Sprint Planning Template
Structure your design sprints with clear goals, capacity planning, task allocation, and deliverable tracking. Align your team and stakeholders before the sprint begins — not during it.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Template sections
- Sprint overview — goal, scope, and definition of done
- Capacity grid — designer availability per day, accounting for meetings and PTO
- Task backlog — all design tasks with size estimate (S/M/L/XL) and priority
- Sprint allocation — who is working on what, with time blocks
- Stakeholder touchpoints — planned reviews, feedback gates, and approval moments
- Retrospective notes — filled in at sprint end (what worked, what to change)
HOW TO USE
Best practices
- Plan for 70% capacity. Designers are never 100% available. Build in buffer for unplanned requests, async reviews, and context-switching.
- Define done before you start. Agree on what "completed" means for every task before the sprint. Disagreement at sprint end is expensive.
- Size tasks as a team. Estimates made alone are almost always wrong. A 10-minute group sizing session saves days of rework.
- Block review time in advance. Design reviews that aren't calendared don't happen. Add stakeholder checkpoints to the sprint plan on day one.
- Separate discovery from delivery. Don't put exploratory research and production-ready design in the same sprint. They operate at different speeds.
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