How to use the Five-day design sprint template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Five-day design sprint template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Five-day design sprint”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Clear the team’s calendars for the week and book the test participants before day one. Each day ends with a decision, not a discussion.”
Fill in each part
- Understand Monday
- Explore Tuesday
- Choose Wednesday
- Build Thursday
- Learn Friday
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 Five-day design sprint 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.

Workshops: Run a workshop on one board: private writing, dot voting, a shared timer, follow the facilitator.

Design principles workshop
Find a team’s design principles from real examples: work you’re proud of, work you regret, and the patterns behind both.
Usability test plan
Plan a round of usability sessions: what you need to learn, with whom, the tasks they will try and how you will judge success.
Feedback grid
Collect reactions to a demo, prototype or talk in four boxes: what people liked, what to change, open questions and new ideas.
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.
Design critique
Give feedback on a design against its goal: what works, open questions, concrete suggestions and what the designer decides.
Design brief
Frame a design project before anyone opens a design tool: the problem, people, constraints, what success means and what to deliver.