Use case
Run a remote design sprint
To run a design sprint remotely you need a shared agenda, a way to collect ideas without groupthink, private voting, a prototype, and feedback from real users. AppSprint puts those in one guided room with built-in video: the team works through timed steps, builds working prototypes with AI, and sends testers a feedback form. It takes about a day, not a week.
What usually goes wrong with remote sprints
A classic design sprint is five days in one room with a whiteboard, sticky notes and a facilitator. Remote teams usually rebuild that with a video call, a whiteboard app, a timer, a voting tool and a prototyping tool. The facilitator spends the session moving people between tabs, and the prototype still takes a designer a full day.
Two things get lost most often: honest input, because people can see whose idea is whose, and the prototype, because building one is slow enough that teams skip testing altogether.
How it works in AppSprint
Open a room and invite the team
The host picks the Full Product Sprint or the shorter Focused Product Sprint and shares a link. Teammates join without an account, and the video call is in the same window.
Frame the problem
The room walks through the goal, the problem, the customer and a shared journey map. Notes stay hidden until the host shows them, and authors are never displayed.
Sketch ideas on your own
Private Notes, Rough Ideas and Eight Quick Ideas (eight one-minute rounds) are private to each person. You can write instead of draw.
Build prototypes with AI
Each person describes what people should be able to try, and the AI builder returns a working, clickable prototype.
Review and decide
Everyone marks what they like with anonymous dots, the team votes privately, and the decision-maker keeps one to three prototypes.
Refine together
Teammates send anonymous suggestions while the decision-maker prompts the AI, so one shared prototype improves with everyone watching. See Refine Together.
Test with users
The team edits a feedback form, sends testers a link, and reviews the answers on a live dashboard.
What you leave with
- A working prototype you can download as a single HTML file
- A record of every confirmed decision, with the vote behind it
- A Markdown build brief (PRD) and a handoff package for developers or an AI coding tool
- Tester feedback and a list of action items
- A session summary link for people who were not in the room
When AppSprint is the wrong tool
If your team wants a free-form canvas to arrange however you like, a whiteboard such as Miro or Mural is a better fit; AppSprint's agenda is fixed by the template. See AppSprint vs Miro.
The prototypes are single-file HTML with no backend, which is right for testing an idea and wrong for shipping a product. Calls work best with about four cameras on, so very large workshops are not a good fit.