Design & Research Sprints

Go Deep. Stay Focused. Real Outcomes.

A Design & Research Sprint offers sustained, dedicated engagement over weeks or months. In collaboration with the InnerLab team and/or Design Lab faculty, partners work through the full double-diamond process of discovery, synthesis, concept development, and prototyping, with access to stakeholder voices, community perspectives and the broader Design Lab ecosystem throughout.

What We Offer

• A single, focused studio team with a design mentor and subject matter expert
• Access to the full Design Lab: faculty, post-docs, under-grad junior designers, and research staff
• Double-diamond methodology: Discover → Define → Develop → Deliver
• Ongoing client touchpoints and collaborative feedback throughout

What You’ll Leave With

• Research insights, stakeholder and user maps, journey maps
• Problem framing and opportunity areas
• Concept directions, prototypes, and final recommendations
• Final presentation deck and synthesis report

Case Study

Other Partnerships

Stories Unsheltered 

Stories Unsheltered is an interactive installation combining a mural, statues, and voice recordings to bring the lived experiences of San Diegans facing housing insecurity into public conversation. Originally located at the Park & Market building in downtown San Diego, and now outside the Design & Innovation Building, UCSD, the project pairs a street-level physical presence with a digital storytelling platform to engage the broader community on the region's housing crisis. Read about this project on UC San Diego Today.

Want to know more? Email us at dlab-innerlab@ucsd.edu

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