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Hear from Adam Fry-Pierce, Chief of Staff, UX Leadership @ Google and co-founder of DesignOps Assembly, as he shares his experiences in scaling DesignOps, including:
Posted on March 20, 2024
Video
In this episode of Heroes of the Creative Revolution, DesignOps powerhouse Meredith Black joins Thomas to talk about the current state of DesignOps, career pathing, founding the DesignOps Assembly, and much more.
Posted on March 17, 2024
Video
Heidi Ettanen, Head of Design Ops at H&M and Co-Lead at DesignOps Assembly Sweden, shares 10 learnings while running and maturing the DesignOps function in times of change.
Posted on March 17, 2024
Non-Academic Article
This is the de-facto industry benchmarking report of DesignOps. Delivering insights into the state of the practice, people, and tools of design operations teams everywhere. This report offers a global view of DesignOps from 316 people in 30 countries.
Posted on March 17, 2024
Report
A practical guide to defining a compelling Design Operations roadmap and building the trust you’ll need to execute on it.
Posted on March 16, 2024
Non-Academic Article
Watch Salomé Mortazavi, Meredith Black, and Adam Fry-Pierce in a webinar where they share how to build a solid operational foundation in design processes. They cover how to customize the DesignOps team to the needs of the designers they support.
Posted on June 30, 2023
Video
Learn the basics of UX DesignOps: integrating a design team into an agile, business-driven development process. This course provides an overview of the practice, from designing better workflows to scaling your UX team, Plus, learn how to work effectively with developers and stakeholders and measure your success. Instructor and UX expert Dee Sadler follows a successful UX department through the DesignOps process and explains all the interdependencies and communication channels needed to make it work efficiently—every step of the way.
Posted on May 4, 2023
Video
Invision has a brand new DesignOps Field Guide out. Check it out.
Posted on November 14, 2022
Report
Frances Yllana speaks at the DesignOps Symposium about DesignOps for DesignOps
Posted on November 7, 2022
Video
Well, is it? How do you know? What is a healthy design practice? What do you need to be doing to have a healthy design lifestyle, a healthy design life? In this talk, we’ll talk about what is a healthy design practice, how to assess it, and how you can monitor and maintain your organization’s health goals and why they are important to help your design practice with their goals to help the business, its stakeholders, and its customers.
Posted on October 28, 2022
Video
Want one place where you can find ALL the DesignOps podcasts out there? Look no further than this Spotify Playlist
Posted on October 28, 2022
Podcast
In episode 10 Jacqui and Alison begin to dig into the current state of Design Operations. Get ready for some more real talk around what is DesignOps anyway, where does it come from, what (and who) does it look like, and why/when/do we even need it.
10: Lets talk about DesignOps
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Posted on October 28, 2022
Podcast
As work shifts from in-person interaction to more distributed and hybrid collaboration, it becomes increasingly important to understand how to collaborate effectively. This book will help you raise the collaborative intelligence of your teams, drawing from interviews with some of the most creative, prolific, and multidisciplinary leaders, authors, and makers in the world.
Posted on October 27, 2022
Book
Have you heard of “Design Ops” popping up across companies over the past few years? Is this role a fad or is it here to stay? Join Meredith Black to learn how she introduced design operations from the traditional agency landscape into the world of in-house design teams. She’ll discuss how to socialize the role, how to get buy-in, and how to scale a design ops team.
Posted on October 22, 2022
Video
In this panel we explore Design Ops with four leaders shaping this practice:
Courtney Kaplan - Director of Design Program Management, Facebook
Meredith Black - Head of Design Operations, Pinterest
Adrienne Allnutt - Director, UX Design & Research Ops, LinkedIn
Lauren Liao - Director, Strategy & Ops, Design & Research Lead, Twitter
We discuss organizational structure, dive into different types of design ops roles and how they can help manage to design better products at scale.
We look at how their teams create effective design processes that enhance transparency, how they set design standards and develop design tools, as well as how they define high-level strategy and connect people with opportunities.
Posted on October 22, 2022
Video
The session explores how to build a strong, resilient and proactive design community, with limited Ops support.
Posted on October 22, 2022
Video
Meredith Black is back on the Design Better Podcast to discuss what’s happened in DesignOps in the last 4 years.
Posted on October 19, 2022
Podcast
Download the 2022 State of DesignOps report to understand the trends and highlights within the DesignOps Industry
Posted on October 17, 2022
Report
Shubhangi Salinkar interviewed and on their role as DPMs at LinkedIn, and learnt some interesting facts about their job!
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
So, how might we solve the DesignOps puzzle?
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Kaitlin Fink gathers up her DesignOps resources on a trusty Pinterest Guide
Posted on October 16, 2022
Other
DesignOps: the questions you’re probably asking yourself now
A 5-min guide to the topic all your designer friends are talking about. Written by
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
HappinessOps
Making sense of Operations in UX.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Creating Process. Without Creating Process. Design Program Management within creative teams.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Join us to explore the intersection of design and culture with leaders at two of the world’s most beloved companies, Anne Purves (Pinterest) and Amy Thibodeau (Shopify). Alongside host Eli Woolery, InVision’s Director of Design Education, they’ll discuss the influence of company culture on product design, design processes, balancing between creativity and operations —and so much more.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Video
Alex from Fuego UX talks to Candace Myers, Design & UX Operations Leader, Netflix about her background in design ops, advice for new design ops professionals, and navigating niche design roles at Netflix.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Video
Setting your first DPM up for success by socializing their role with others in your team or organization.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
In 2-5 years, we’ll see Design Practice management evolve back to the core essentials and specialization of creative direction, design innovation, storytelling, and development of their designers.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Zoe Seaman discusses the first 90 days as Head of DesignOps
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Heidi Ettanen talks about her first year building DesignOps within her organization
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Mark Figueiredo reflects on his first year in a full-time DesignOps role and shares his top five learnings.
Posted on October 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Adrienne Allnutt talks to us about the many roles within Ops and how to break them down while running a successful team
Posted on September 18, 2022
Academic Article
Cliona O’Sullivan talks about building the DesignOps practice at Spotify in 2019
Posted on September 18, 2022
Non-Academic Article
John Calhoun and Rachel Posman break down why these two ops functions make the perfect pair.
Posted on September 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Rachel Posman created created this 101 level guide for her mentees through . It answers eight of the most common questions she get from folks interested in or new to Design Operations.
Posted on September 16, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Qatalog recently came together with the DesignOps Assembly to host a panel discussion on the growing strategic role of DesignOps in the new world of work.
Posted on September 16, 2022
Organization Website
Learn how creating centralized services and systems helps grow integrated, high-functioning design teams, with expert insights on operationalizing across workflows, hiring, team alignment, and more.
Posted on September 15, 2022
Book
In this episode, Hot Studio Founder and former Autodesk VP of Experience Design Maria Giudice talks about overcoming team silos and learning to lead with influence instead of authority. She also discusses why diversity is one of the keys to , along with lessons she learned while working with fast-moving companies like Facebook.
Posted on September 15, 2022
Podcast
DesignOps veterans Jacqui Frey and Alison Rand talk all things DesignOps
Posted on September 15, 2022
Podcast
Angelos Arnis chats with DesignOps pioneer and advocate Meredith Black joins us as the first guest ever on this podcast! Meredith discusses her love for true crime, dogs, and her career path that comes with a twist.
Posted on September 15, 2022
Podcast
Alex chats with Meredith Black, Founder of DesignOps Assembly, about what a design ops role is, the flexibility of the role within different work environments, and advice for new designers entering the field today who have an interest in design ops.
Posted on September 12, 2022
Video
If design is a team sport, then design ops is our coach.
As design teams scale, the opportunity of design ops is to support the orchestration of design practice by aligning our people, processes, and tools.
Join Jason and Mark as they explore the role of design ops at the technology giant, Atlassian. They are sharing a coffee with Atlassian's Head of Design Ops, Dominique Ward.
Posted on September 12, 2022
Podcast
Qatalog came together with the to host a panel discussion on the growing strategic role of DesignOps in the new world of work.
Posted on August 9, 2022
Non-Academic Article
Dominique Ward discusses her Head of DesignOps role at Atlassian with Opsy. This podcast covers What design operations is, how Dominique ended up in design operations, why a lot of operations problems are also design problems, and more.
Posted on June 23, 2022
Podcast
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