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DesignOps 101: Guide to Design Operations
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Get key insights about:
- Improving and scaling design process
- Collaborating better
- Implementing DesignOps
- Tools for design operations

We were able to decrease the amount of investment required for rote design work by 75% after implementing DesignOps at a Fortune 100 financial company. This freed up considerable resources to invest in mission-critical UX research, design thinking, and product innovation.
What is DesignOps?

Design Operations creates the environment for designers to do their best work. We are the secret sauce of design organizations.
Insights from Top DesignOps Leaders

Robin Klein Schiphorst
Author of this ebook's chapter on DesignOps' Impact. Expert who worked with companies like frog, Laerdal, Schibsted in multi-brand Design Systems and building inclusive work cultures.

Rachel Posman
Design Operations leader that is passionate about understanding people and designing and building human-centered organizations, experiences, products and services.

Amber Jabeen
Design leader with a background in UX design, design program management, design systems, and design operations.

Theresa Neil
Recognized as a Top Designer in Technology by Business Insider, O’Reilly Author, and a founder of a 25-person UX design consultancy serving clients including Adobe, Bloomberg, eBay, and many more.

Roxann Adams
Design leader with 30+ years of experience at IBM. Leads a team of five DesignOps professionals to reduce the friction and pain points of the IBM CIO Design organization.

Marc W. Wisniewski
Transformative Design Leader passionate about Design Operations, Digital Strategy, Creative Direction, User-Centered Design, Design Thinking, Engineering, Product Management, and Agile and Lean methods.
Chapters
01
What is DesignOps?
Learn more about roles and responsibilities of DesignOps specialists and how this discipline can resolve many design and business challenges.
02
The Importance of DesignOps
See how DesignOps solve some issues, how to collaborate with your team better and scale your design. Learn more about the needs of your team.
03
Impact of DesignOps
Chapter written by Robin Klein Schiphorst – a DesignOps coach, where he explains how the discipline empowers designers and leaves you more time on what’s important.
04
How DesignOps works
All about how to work together in the DesignOps mindset, harmonize, prioritize, and measure a team's performance and capacity.
05
How to get started with DesignOps in Your Company
Learn about implementing DesignOps in your team and organization. See what your roadmap and strategy should look like.
06
DesignOps Tools
Discover tools that will help you optimize the performance of both design and product development teams. See which are good for project management and team-building.
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