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Unifying Cross-Functional Collaboration at Scale
Farid Sabitov tackles the practical realities and challenges of connecting design, product management, and engineering through coordination practices at scale.
Based on Farid’s experience pursuing cross-functional integration within large-scale organizations; from discovery to ensuring team adoption of a new way of working.
The goal: to provide attendees with an actionable plan to foster a more efficient, interconnected work environment.
In this talk, I discuss the challenges of connecting design, product management, and engineering and provide attendees with an actionable plan for a more efficient work environment.
Nov 2023
🔒 Private
DesignOps with Jira: Advanced Program Management and Metrics
In this workshop, we’ll dig into the complexity of managing design operations within Agile environments using tools like Jira. We’ll discuss how to harmoniously integrate design within Agile frameworks, maximize the utility of Jira for managing design workflows, leverage design metrics for insightful program management, oversee multiple design projects concurrently at scale, and effectively map dependencies and staff projects.
In this workshop, I'll talk about managing design operations in Agile environments using tools like Jira, integrating design within Agile frameworks, maximizing Jira for design workflows, using design metrics for program management, overseeing multiple design projects at scale, and mapping dependencies and staffing projects effectively.
Oct 2023
🔒 Private
Exploring the Synergy of AI and DesignOps: How do we Unleash its Potential?
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, the convergence of AI and DesignOps has emerged as a game changer. As a discipline that focuses on productivity and team health metrics to deliver business outcomes, DesignOps finds itself at the forefront of this transformative alliance. Will AI liberate teams from repetitive tasks empowering them to focus on creativity, strategy, and innovation?
AI opens unprecedented opportunities, and this panel will discuss the reimagining of DesignOps in this new world including:
What is the role in practice of AI for DesignOps?
With AI automatizing tasks, what value does DesignOps offer?
How should DesignOps adjust, and refocus?
AI poses risks, how do we find the potential?
Please join Farid Sabitov, and our panel of experts, as they share and discuss how to harness the power of AI and embrace its opportunities.
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, the convergence of AI and DesignOps has emerged as a game changer, liberating teams from repetitive tasks and empowering them to focus on creativity and innovation; this panel will discuss the role of AI in DesignOps, its value, how DesignOps should adjust, and the potential risks and opportunities it poses.
Sep 2023
🌎 Public
Figma's Dev Mode: Adoption at Scale
We're diving into Figma's new Dev Mode and we want you all in! Let's get together to unpack what this means for our workflows, our teams, and our organizations.
I had an opportunity to speak and we discussed Figma's new Dev Mode and its impact on workflows, teams, and organizations. Let's dive in!
Aug 2023
🌎 Public
Navigating Design Systems with Figma’s Config 2023 Updates
Explore and embrace the new era of Design System with Figma's new features, focusing on enhanced design systems, integration, and AI capabilities for transformative solutions
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where I explored Figma's new features, focusing on enhanced design systems, integration, and AI capabilities for transformative solutions.
Jun 2023
🌎 Public
Connecting Design and Code: Unifying Your Design System
Explore the latest strategies and tools for integrating design and code, aligning component information architecture, measuring design system success, and driving system change through innovation
I had an opportunity to speak at the event and we discussed integrating design and code, aligning component information architecture, measuring design system success, and driving system change through innovation.
May 2023
🌎 Public
How DesignOps Helps Design Systems Gain Traction
Moderated by DesignOps guru Farid Sabitov, our panel of practitioners represent best-in-class companies: Jose Coronado, Head of DesignOps at JPMorgan; Patrizia Bertini is a DesignOps leader and consultant; Karolina Boremalm, Global Head of Design Operations at IKEA. Supernova's very own Chief Product Officer Andy Evans also contributed about design systems. These experts shared their knowledge about the level of collaboration between DesignOps practitioners and design systems teams, how Design Operations can help drive greater adoption of design systems, and the ideal collaboration model for a design systems team.
The panel involved a FigJam board and you can also follow along the transcript of the panel.
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where DesignOps experts discussed collaboration between practitioners and design systems teams, driving adoption of design systems, and the ideal collaboration model, moderated by Farid Sabitov and including panelists from JPMorgan, IKEA, and Supernova, with contributions from Andy Evans.
Apr 2023
🌎 Public
ProductOps Change Management in Practice: Insights and Learnings
Hey, ProductOps friends, join our upcoming Coda Community Open panel, where we will discuss practical strategies and best practices for ProductOps Change Management in Practice from experts in the field!
Topics that we are going to cover:
Join our upcoming Coda Community Open panel to learn practical strategies and best practices for ProductOps Change Management in Practice from experts in the field! Topics include why change management matters, overcoming resistance, building teams, measuring impact, and using tools and technology.
Mar 2023
🌎 Public
DesignOps Program Coordination at Scale
Hey Friends, let's discuss different ways how we could coordinate design teams at scale. Every speaker will share the way how they are performing high-level planning, connecting strategy and execution, see performance metrics of specific design teams, tracking dependencies and resolving allocation challenges
Hey friends, I had an opportunity to speak about coordinating design teams at scale, including high-level planning, strategy execution, performance metrics, and resolving allocation challenges.
Oct 2022
🌎 Public
Measuring Impact in DesignOps
The most challenging part of DesignOps is helping the design department communicate impact at scale. Together with Z and Farid, we will help you to create your own story of how different practices and teams within your organization can put more focus on outcomes based on real metrics. We are going to collaborate and work together in groups to understand which metrics are important, and how to capture and communicate them to your organization. As a result, you will create a newsletter or a presentation starter kit with actual metrics to share within your organization with a visualized process on how to support it.
The hardest part of DesignOps is showing the design department's impact on a large scale, but in this event, I will help you create a story about how your organization can focus on outcomes using real metrics, and together we'll create a newsletter or presentation starter kit to share within your organization.
Sep 2022
🔒 Private
Theme Four: Visiting the Future of Design Operations
While DesignOps is just getting going in many settings, it’s been thriving long enough in others to have moved well beyond the basics of operational support to helping shape and drive organization-wide strategy for both design and product companies. We’ve selected a handful of amazing projects that represent cutting edge—inspired leadership, impactful management, and tooling wizardry—presented by DesignOps people who are truly “visitors from the future.”
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where DesignOps is thriving and shaping organization-wide strategy for design and product companies.
Sep 2022
🔒 Private
Visualizing Processes in DesignOps
We will cover different frameworks, practical examples and will share our learnings. How to create views and timelines that help to visualize the simplified version of a complex process to specific roles. How these diagrams could be used for onboarding and scaling the knowledge. How to audit and find weak spots in the process and communicate the improvements.
I will cover different frameworks, practical examples, and share my learnings on creating views and timelines to simplify complex processes for specific roles, using diagrams for onboarding and scaling knowledge, and auditing and communicating process improvements.
Aug 2022
🌎 Public
Change Management in DesignOps
Let's speak about the practical side of change management in DesignOps. How are you making an impact across teams, bringing awareness around specific challenges, and validating and scaling practices around the org? We will cover the importance of measuring the impact and having a proper feedback loop with specific teams
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May 2022
🌎 Public
How to get hired as DesignOps
An open panel discussion with people from large organizations that already hired DesignOps practitioners. We are going to cover the hiring process and will share some learnings that will be helpful for the companies who would like to hire a DesignOps person and for people who want to switch into DesignOps or looking for a new opportunity!
I had an opportunity to speak at an open panel discussion about hiring DesignOps practitioners and sharing helpful learnings for companies and individuals interested in DesignOps.
Apr 2022
🌎 Public
The First Month of Being a DesignOps
DesignOps is still a pretty new practice and we hear a lot of questions about how to start a DesignOps inside the organization and what kind of activities are performed on the first month of being a DesignOps
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where I summarized the content from the Full Description, which highlighted the questions and activities related to starting DesignOps within an organization in the first month.
Feb 2022
🌎 Public
DesignOps Engagement Models
DesignOps is a very broad term that is focused on multiple focus areas and multiple levels inside the organization. If you are interested in the way how Designops could be integrated and how to work on a more strategic level, join our session and let's discuss together!
DesignOps is about integrating and working strategically on multiple levels inside an organization; let's discuss it in our session!
Nov 2021
🌎 Public
Integrating Tools in DesignOps
DesignOps is about making our life easier. But how to handle a great variety of tools? is there a way to integrate all the tools in one place and have a more integrated approach? Join our fourth event and let's find out!
DesignOps is about making my life easier, so I want to find a way to integrate all the tools in one place and have a more integrated approach at our fourth event.
Aug 2021
🌎 Public
Team Compositions and File Management
You have a large design team and you are struggling to create an efficient team composition and organize your teams in Figma? Join our third meetup where we will speak about the best practices of organizing files for large design teams!
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where I discussed the best practices of organizing files for large design teams in Figma.
Jul 2021
🌎 Public
Skill Matrix for DesignOps
You already started to practice DesignOps in your organization but struggling to formulate the DesignOps role? Join our second meetup where we will speak about Skill Matrix for DesignOps and Career Ladders!
I spoke at an event about formulating the DesignOps role and discussed Skill Matrix for DesignOps and Career Ladders.
May 2021
🌎 Public
DesignOps Introduction
Our first Friends of Figma DesignOps meetup where we are going to introduce you to the DesignOps!
I had the chance to speak at our first Friends of Figma DesignOps meetup where I introduced everyone to the world of DesignOps.
Apr 2021
🌎 Public
Innovation Workshop for Product Strategy and Vision
During the innovation workshop, we will break the thinking templates and will generate a lot of innovative ideas that are out of the box.
© 2020, EPAM Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All presentations, materials and content of our Zed Conference are original works protected by copyright law, and may not be copied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable form, in whole or in part, without prior written consent of EPAM’s Global Communications Group. No copies will be made or distribution authorized without such express, written permission, and any other reproduction in any form is prohibited.
In this innovation workshop, I'll help you break the thinking templates and generate innovative ideas that are out of the box.
Dec 2020
🌎 Public
Scaling research insights through the organization via research database
Farid talks about the main problems large organizations face when it comes to sharing insights after research. We're talking about different levels of team maturity and why ResearchOps is gaining momentum. Practical application insights and some interesting examples of how you can start promoting the knowledge repository across your teams and companies.
In my talk, I discuss the challenges organizations face in sharing research insights and why ResearchOps is becoming more important, providing practical application insights and examples of how to promote knowledge sharing within teams and companies.
Dec 2020
🌎 Public
Design Thinking
The current challenges of organizing all research findings in large organizations. We will cover different levels of maturity and understand why do we need to think about knowledge management and DesignOps.
Practical advice of how to set up a process and tools that can automate and simplify the routine work.
We will answer:
I will share practical advice on setting up a process and tools to automate and simplify routine work, addressing the challenges of organizing research findings in large organizations and explaining the importance of knowledge management and DesignOps, while also discussing the need for a research database, user-research maturity model, researchOps or designOps, simple process organization, tools available in the market, and team composition required to support the practice.
Nov 2020
🌎 Public
Machine Learning in Design
Farid will talk about his experience with design automation, but don't worry, Farid will also talk about why designers will always have work to do. Why DesignOps practice is gaining great popularity in the world in just 3 years and how to try using machine learning in your work with practical examples. In his career, Farid has worked in studios, outsourcing and product companies. He did his own startups and sees his future as a consultant at EPAM. Now Farid is actively working on DesignOps practices at EPAM and writes various design automations in his spare time.
I'll be talking about my experience with design automation, why designers will always have work to do, the growing popularity of DesignOps practice, and how to incorporate machine learning into your work with practical examples. In my career, I've worked in studios, outsourcing and product companies, started my own startups, and now I see myself as a consultant at EPAM, where I'm actively working on DesignOps practices and developing design automations in my spare time.
Nov 2020
🔒 Private
Creating a governance model for design system core team
How can we help the education industry adapt to the new normal?
Our colleagues from EPAM Russia will talk about collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Products and Solutions division, founded in the 18th century and being a leader in the education services market. 2020 has become an explosive year for the education sector, many organizations (schools, universities, including corporate ones) and students themselves have switched to remote forms of education. Under these conditions, the project team had to create a new product family.
The team will talk about what approaches and technologies they use in creating UX/UI and in developing the mobile part of products, as well as talk about the Machine Learning concepts used and what effect is expected from their implementation.
I had the opportunity to speak at an event where I discussed how we can help the education industry adapt to the new normal, focusing on collaboration with EPAM Russia's AI Products and Solutions division and their efforts in creating new educational products using UX/UI, mobile development, and Machine Learning concepts.
Oct 2020
🔒 Private
Moving from Design Library to Design System
Farid Sabitov will share his personal story of how he created and integrated design system activities into the agile process on the project level. Here are some highlights:
Governance model
In this event, I will share my personal story of integrating design system activities into the agile process, including governance models, design automation scripts, and a live demo.
Oct 2020
🔒 Private
Automatization for Large Enterprise Teams
Personal story of how we not only improved the way of how designers worked with the other team members and external stakeholders but also found the ways to automate the routine work.
The goal of the story is to motivate other people to build custom scripts, plugins, extensions, and products. Also, we’ll cover how open source projects can help to increase brand awareness to attract the best talents in the world. Actionable insights to boost up the automation process.
Farid will share some insights on how to analyze and find the weak spots in the design teams’ processes. Then he will provide an action plan on how to automate different aspects of the work as well as simplify the onboarding process for the newcomers.
I improved how designers work with others and automated routine tasks, motivating others to do the same. I'll share insights on analyzing weak spots and provide an action plan for automation and onboarding.
Oct 2020
🔒 Private
Innovation Workshop
We see that methodologies like design thinking, lean UX are able only qualitatively improve our products. By understanding user problems, conducting market research, and validating our hypothesis we are able only to improve the things that the market already has. But what if we would like to come up with more innovative ideas on a larger scale?
During the innovation workshop, we will break the thinking templates and will generate a lot of innovative ideas that are out of the box. By using activities like opposite thinking, trend matrix, analogy thinking, and my personal evolution analysis technique we will learn how to use these tools and some practices that will help your team to think differently than others.
Innovation workshops will help your team members to think on a larger scale. Motivate them more because they will be able to see the future and feel the future impact on humanity. Adjust or setup the right vision and strategy of your company
In this innovation workshop, we will learn how to break thinking templates, generate innovative ideas, and think on a larger scale using various tools and techniques, ultimately helping your team to see and feel the future impact on humanity.
Sep 2020
🌎 Public
How to organize project chaos using experience/story mapping
Aug 2020
🔒 Private
DesignOps. Scripting, Plugins and API integrations.
Why do we need DesignOps in EPAM?
Who is DesignOps Consultant;
How we would like to help our clients to grow;
What are the main focus areas;
Business Value for EPAM and clients;
Current initiatives and proposals;
Next steps;
I had an opportunity to speak about why I need DesignOps in EPAM, who I am as a DesignOps Consultant, how I want to help our clients grow, the main focus areas, the business value for EPAM and clients, current initiatives and proposals, and the next steps.
Aug 2020
🔒 Private
DesignOps – Principles and Practices
This workshop will look at the people, processes, tools and goverance needed to embed a culture of Design.
It will explore how DesignOps Canvas can be used to define a Design chanllenges and needs and how DesignOps can be used to deliver creative and human centered design and collaborate efficiently.
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where I discussed the importance of embedding a culture of Design and how DesignOps can help deliver creative and human-centered design.
Aug 2020
🌎 Public
Do we need DesignOps?
In the meantime, we continue to publish video presentations from the OffGrid Design Conference 2.0.
Today is Farid Sabitov's report on Design Operations as a way of planning design processes for large-scale and at the same time effective team interaction.
I had an opportunity to speak at the OffGrid Design Conference 2.0, where I discussed Design Operations for effective team interaction.
Jul 2020
🌎 Public
DesignOps Capabilities
Hello all,
It’s our 10th session of the Global Show & Tell series! Our first anniversary🎉 And we are going to talk about the DesignOps. We will share some of the updates around DesignOps capabilities and the current state of the practice as well. To make it more interesting for EPAM Design Community we are going to focus on internal insights, case studies, and some actionable advice on how to implement the DesignOps mindset in your teams!
I had the opportunity to speak at the 10th session of the Global Show & Tell series, where we discussed DesignOps and shared updates, case studies, and actionable advice on implementing the DesignOps mindset.
Jun 2020
🔒 Private
Handoff Automatisation and Themed Design System with Figma API
Every Design Library contains styles, assets, and components. By using Figma's components, layer/text/effect/grid styles we are able to specify the main design tokens for our styles, so the FE team can find the names of design tokens that were used in "Code" mode directly in Figma.
Our FE team created an automated handoff process directly in their development environment. It's based on . We were inspired after the . Right now there are more advanced open source solutions for that and we added all of them into our . and are the right contacts to speak to.
Every Design Library contains styles, assets, and components, and by using Figma's components, layer/text/effect/grid styles, I am able to specify the main design tokens for my styles, so the FE team can find the names of design tokens that were used in "Code" mode directly in Figma. The FE team also created an automated handoff process directly in their development environment, based on the HolyJS conference and advanced open source solutions, which can be found in our template in Grow portal. If you have any questions or need further assistance, you can reach out to Aliaksandr Maroz or Aliaksandr Rabchanka. We also support colors, typography, effects import, and are currently working on spacings. If you want more consistent spacings in your designs, you can use the Auto layout feature and the Spacing Manager Figma plugin. We have also implemented auto-export capabilities for assets via Figma API, and we plan to add SVG sprites in the future. In terms of components, we are working on a common vocabulary and will present more results in the future. By implementing these practices, we have increased the speed of the handoff process with theming capabilities. If you have any further questions or need assistance, you can reach out to Farid Sabitov.
Mar 2020
🔒 Private
Best practices of creating a table of contents mapped with Jira
Farid presented the best practices of organizing and naming frames in Figma. By adding Jira issues to each section, we can help all other team members to quickly navigate through the screens. Also, we covered the ways of how to track the idea bank updates mapped with epics (sections) and the future opportunities for Figma and Jira extensions that will help automatically track the updates.
I presented the best practices of organizing and naming frames in Figma, emphasizing the importance of adding Jira issues to facilitate team navigation and tracking updates.
Mar 2020
🔒 Private
Agile for Large design teams
shared the practice of managing large design teams in Jira. We covered the main issue types mapped to the timeline. Covered the structure of issue fields. Spoke about releases, revisions and how to manage design debts and idea bank. On the upcoming sessions, we will speak about stream planning and smart staffing.
I shared the practice of managing large design teams in Jira, covering issue types, structure, releases, revisions, design debts, and idea bank. In the upcoming sessions, we will discuss stream planning and smart staffing.
Feb 2020
🔒 Private
Choosing the right prototyping tools
Farid Sabitov told what are the main points to take into account when choosing a tool for prototyping.
The future is with tools that allow you to design directly in code, as it is much faster to develop, and as a result, better for business.
I spoke about the importance of choosing a prototyping tool that allows designing directly in code, as it is faster and better for business.
Nov 2019
🌎 Public
Introduction to Design Systems
Tired of enduring design chaos on the project? Who is responsible for the ever-changing implementation requirements of your application? Tired of sawing bikes that no one wants? Let's try to find the very silver bullet that will immediately solve all these (and not only) problems.
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where we discussed the frustration of design chaos and ever-changing implementation requirements in applications. Let's find a silver bullet solution.
Oct 2019
🔒 Private
The truce of designers and developers
Let's discuss the problems of communication between designers and developers. We will look for answers, best practices and tools for interaction. We can't do without hot stories and heated discussions!
I had an opportunity to speak at an event where we discussed the problems of communication between designers and developers, looking for answers and best practices while enjoying hot stories and heated discussions.
Jun 2019
🔒 Private
Modern design workflow with Abstract
What interesting things will you learn
Is Abstract the Git for designers we've all been waiting for?
So, you've always wanted to manage versions of your projects in a Git-like, friendly manner. Wait no more, Abstract is here!
Who will be interested
Abstract is the Git for designers that I had the opportunity to speak about, it's perfect for managing versions of projects in a friendly manner.
May 2019
🔒 Private
The future is now
How design and development can go hand in hand. Best practices, new techniques and tools that can automate our work - in Farid's story.
I will speak about how design and development can work together, share best practices, and discuss new techniques and tools that can automate our work in my story.
May 2019
🔒 Private
UX debt and how to deal with it
Farid talks about debt in user experience and how to deal with it in interaction design. You will learn:
- What is UX debt
How to prioritize debt
- How to "sell" and find a balance when planning.
I talk about debt in user experience and how to deal with it in interaction design, including what UX debt is, how to prioritize it, and how to find a balance when planning.
Apr 2019
🔒 Private
Modern design workflow with Abstract
One place to version, manage, and collaborate on your Sketch files.
I had an opportunity to speak about a platform that helps with versioning, managing, and collaborating on Sketch files.
Apr 2019
🔒 Private
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