How to use the Design brief template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Design brief template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Design brief”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“If you can’t fill the problem section in two sentences, stop and research first. Everything else in the brief depends on it.”
Fill in each part
- The problem What is going wrong today, for whom, and how do we know?
- Who it’s for The people we are designing for, and their situation.
- What success looks like How will we know the design worked?
- Constraints Budget, time, tech, brand and legal limits.
- Out of scope What we deliberately won’t touch this time.
- Deliverables What exactly gets handed over, and when?
- People involved Who decides, who contributes, who must be kept informed?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Design brief board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

User flow
The screens and steps a person goes through to finish one task, with what each step must achieve and where it can go wrong.
Five-day design sprint
Go from a big question to a tested prototype in one week: understand, explore, choose, build and learn from real people.
Problem statement builder
Write a problem worth solving before anyone suggests a solution: who has it, when, what it costs them and how we know.
Wireframe review
Review early wireframes on structure and flow before anyone discusses colours: is the content right, and can people find it?
Inspiration share-out
Everyone brings examples from other products or places that solve a similar problem well, and the group captures what to borrow.
Feedback grid
Collect reactions to a demo, prototype or talk in four boxes: what people liked, what to change, open questions and new ideas.