Jake Knapp, the GV design partner that developed the Design Sprint process, has left the unit after five years to become a full-time writer.

Jake Knapp has left GV, a corporate venturing subsidiary of internet and technology conglomerate GV, where he was a design partner, to pursue full-time writing.

Knapp had been a design partner at GV for five years, having spent the previous five as a designer at its then parent company, Google. He was responsible for the creation of design problem-solving process Design Sprint, and wrote a book on the subject in 2016.

Prior to Google, Knapp had been a designer at…