How to Run a 90-Minute AI Design Sprint (with prompts)
December 16, 2025
Most teams still run ideation sessions with a whiteboard, a problem statement, and a flurry of post-its. To be honest, I’ve always loved a good Design sprint, especially in person and I hope those don’t go away for anyone because they’re an awesome way to learn and connect together.
But with AI, the way we generate, evaluate, and shape ideas has fundamentally shifted. You can collapse days of thinking into a focused 90-minute sprint if you know how to structure it well.
This is the format designed to move fast without losing the depth. It blends design thinking, systems thinking, and agent-era AI capabilities into a repeatable flow you can run any time your team needs clarity.
Here’s the 90-minute AI Design Sprint, step by step with prompts you can copy, paste, and use today.
Source: How to Run a 90-Minute AI Design Sprint (with prompts)
As we’ve recently observed elsewhere, while a lot of the focus on generative AI and LLMs is on customer-facing features or generated content (be that text, images, or video), there is one place in which large language models can have a really valuable impact: on processes. Here M.C. Dean reimagines the design sprints, a staple of the design process, using large language models with some suggested prompts that she uses.
