Google Product Design: For the first time, the Google community Developers Group Greece, representing GDG Heraklion, GDG Thessaloniki and GDG Athens, is organizing the official Google Product Design Sprint in Heraklion, Crete on July 26 and 27, as part of Google After I/O Extended Heraklion 2017.
Google Product Design Sprint uses design thinking to reduce the inherent risks posed when products are successfully marketed.
Developed by Google Ventures and is a successful methodology for developing strategy, innovation and "Design Thinking" that can be used by any group (startup company) is planning to launch a new business proposal / product.
It is a rapid process of answering critical issues through design, creationof prototyping and testing ideas (understanding | sketching-designing, prototyping & validating ideas).
During the Google Product Design Sprint held in Heraklion, selected startups and mentor companies will learn the Product Design Sprint methodology in order to be able to apply it to their own products or services.
"The purpose of this special session is to introducetreatment a tool for Startups and Businesses in order to reduce the processes when a business is ready to enter the market or is thinking about introducing a new product / service, through the possibility to see the future final product and the reactions of their customers, before making any costly commitments.”
- If you are a startup or a company who would like to know more about the Google Ventures framework, fill out this form. The submission of statements will close on July 14 and selected startups or companies will be notified by July 16 for their participation in Product Design Sprint.
- If you would like to participate as a mentor and experience this, we invite you to fill out this form. Submissions will be closed on July 14. The selected mentors will receive all the necessary information and instructions by July 16.
For more information on Product Design Sprint in Crete, please see official Sprint design website.
In Crete, the Google Developers Group Greece collaborates with the Young Entrepreneurship Association, due to its remarkable contribution to the ecosystem of start-ups, in the vocational training and networking of vulnerable groups and due to the integration policies that it follows. YEC is a non-profit organization that acts as a "hotbed of ideas and dreams of young people who are interested in entrepreneurship and are willing to create."
