The document discusses DesignOps at scientific research organizations. It notes that some organizations have DesignOps functions without actual designers involved. Several European cities where relevant research organizations are located are listed. It advocates for empowering "designers" at these organizations so that great science can happen, and notes there are over 500 such "designers". It discusses communicating the value of DesignOps and making incremental marginal gains through a bottom-up and cross-cutting approach while respecting the existing culture.

1. Mark Boulton @markboulton
Ops without
Designers

6. Embargo

13. Design is not
important

14. Science is the thing

18. Sites
Heidelberg, Germany
Grenoble, France
Barcelona, Spain
Hamburg, Germany Cambridge, UK
Rome, Italy

19. Groups

20. Units

21. Services

25. The bottom line

26. Status quo is
protected

27. Devolved

28. Bottom up

29. Publishing
is the output

30. Motivation
Hierarchy
Output
Comms
Discovery
Bottom-up
Publishing
Service
Profit
Top-down
Product
Integrated
Commercial Science

31. https://www.slideshare.net/Hienadz.Drahun/ux-maturity-models

32. https://www.slideshare.net/Hienadz.Drahun/ux-maturity-models

33. https://www.slideshare.net/Hienadz.Drahun/ux-maturity-models

34. https://www.slideshare.net/Hienadz.Drahun/ux-maturity-models

35. https://www.slideshare.net/Hienadz.Drahun/ux-maturity-models

36. None Some Integrated

37. None Some Integrated
DesignOps

38. None Some Integrated
DesignOps

39. DesignOps
with no designers?

41. Empowering ‘designers’
so that great science
can happen.

42. 500 +

43. How do we
communicate
the value?

44. Recap: 500+ ‘designers’
Bottom-up. Siloed.
Science, not profit.

45. Marginal gains

48. “My followers in Jeet Kune Do know this: All
fixed set patterns are incapable of
adaptability or pliability. The truth lies outside
of fixed patterns.”

49. Slack channels
Email lists
Newsletters
Working groups
Clinics
Poster sessions
Beer sessions (yes, that’s a thing)
Seminars
1-1’s
Open sprint demos

50. Science exists
in an environment
of debate

51. Audit the pain

52. Cross cutting

53. 90%

54. User researcher
User insight manager

55. Incremental marginal gains
Willing to try everything… but…
Go with organisation culture
Repeat. Yourself. All. The. Time.
The words we use matter

57. @markboulton