562: The evolution of design sprints with Dawn Delatte and Elaina Natario
Chad talks with fellow thoughtboters Dawn Delatte and Elaina Natario about the evolution of design sprints at within the company.
An episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, hosted by thoughtbot, titled "562: The evolution of design sprints with Dawn Delatte and Elaina Natario" was published on February 20, 2025 and runs 37 minutes.
February 20, 2025 ·37m · Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Summary
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. If you would like to support the show, head over to our GitHub page, or check out our website. Got a question or comment about the show? Why not write to our hosts: [email protected] This has been a thoughtbot podcast. Stay up to date by following us on social media - LinkedIn - Mastodon - Instagram © 2025 thoughtbot, inc.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Episode Description
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.
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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.
If you would like to support the show, head over to our GitHub page, or check out our website.
Got a question or comment about the show? Why not write to our hosts: [email protected]
This has been a thoughtbot podcast.
Stay up to date by following us on social media - LinkedIn - Mastodon - Instagram
© 2025 thoughtbot, inc.
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