As the move to establish in-house design teams accelerates, it turns out there’s very little common wisdom on what makes for a successful design organization. Books and presentations focus on process, methods, tools, and outcomes, leaving a gap of knowledge when it comes to organizational and operational matters. This workshop seeks to address this lacuna by shining a light on the unsung activities of actually running a design team, and what works and what doesn’t.
Topics include:
- How a service design mindset shifts standard organizational approaches
- Organizational models for design teams, from centralized to decentralized and back again
- Breadth and depth of skills and strategic thinking
- The 5 Stages of Organisational Evolution
- A New Taxonomy of Design Team Roles
Org Design is (Largely) Information ArchitecturePeter Merholz
Given at the IA Conference in 2019, this talk connects the practices of org design with the practices, skills, and values from information architecture.
As organizations continue to establish and mature their in-house design teams, it turns out there’s very little common wisdom on what makes for a successful design organization. Books and presentations tend to focus on process, methods, tools, and outcomes, leaving a gap of knowledge when it comes to organizational and operational matters.
In this talk, Kristin Skinner discusses how to coordinate efforts and structure teams within large organizations. She covers:
- Realizing the Potential of Design
- Organizational Models / The Centralized Partnership
- The 5 Stages of Design Organizations
- The 12 Qualities of Effective Design Organizations
She also stresses the impact that design can have on business and highlights the importance of design managers in coordinating in-house efforts, advocating for quality, and enabling culture.
More information can be found in Kristin's book with Peter Merholz, Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams, published by O'Reilly in August 2016.
http://orgdesignfordesignorgs.com/
DESIGN LEADERSHIP TRUISMS and COACH, DIPLOMAT, CHAMPION, ARCHITECTPeter Merholz
For the DesignX 2019 Design Leadership Summit, I did something a little strange: two talks in one. The first talk was a series of Jenny Holzer-inspired truisms about design leadership. The second talk was my latest version of Coach, Diplomat, Champion, Architect: The 4 Archetypes of the Complete Design Leader.
Shaping and implementing a DesignOps functionMatt Gottschalk
Matt Gottschalk and Ben Franck, both UX & DesignOps Managers at Centrica, will share the journey they have been on since setting up their DesignOps function at the beginning of 2018. They will discuss the types of problems that come with managing and supporting a de-centralised design team of 40+ User Experience designers, how they defined the role and how having a design operations function enabled them to streamline processes and drive efficiency and consistency.
Org Design is (Largely) Information ArchitecturePeter Merholz
Given at the IA Conference in 2019, this talk connects the practices of org design with the practices, skills, and values from information architecture.
As organizations continue to establish and mature their in-house design teams, it turns out there’s very little common wisdom on what makes for a successful design organization. Books and presentations tend to focus on process, methods, tools, and outcomes, leaving a gap of knowledge when it comes to organizational and operational matters.
In this talk, Kristin Skinner discusses how to coordinate efforts and structure teams within large organizations. She covers:
- Realizing the Potential of Design
- Organizational Models / The Centralized Partnership
- The 5 Stages of Design Organizations
- The 12 Qualities of Effective Design Organizations
She also stresses the impact that design can have on business and highlights the importance of design managers in coordinating in-house efforts, advocating for quality, and enabling culture.
More information can be found in Kristin's book with Peter Merholz, Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams, published by O'Reilly in August 2016.
http://orgdesignfordesignorgs.com/
DESIGN LEADERSHIP TRUISMS and COACH, DIPLOMAT, CHAMPION, ARCHITECTPeter Merholz
For the DesignX 2019 Design Leadership Summit, I did something a little strange: two talks in one. The first talk was a series of Jenny Holzer-inspired truisms about design leadership. The second talk was my latest version of Coach, Diplomat, Champion, Architect: The 4 Archetypes of the Complete Design Leader.
Shaping and implementing a DesignOps functionMatt Gottschalk
Matt Gottschalk and Ben Franck, both UX & DesignOps Managers at Centrica, will share the journey they have been on since setting up their DesignOps function at the beginning of 2018. They will discuss the types of problems that come with managing and supporting a de-centralised design team of 40+ User Experience designers, how they defined the role and how having a design operations function enabled them to streamline processes and drive efficiency and consistency.
DesignOps and the design of efficient teams: the metrics and the processes th...Patrizia Bertini
How efficient is your design team?
Do you know which are the most time consuming tasks for your team? And how are you measuring your team’s efficiency?
As Design teams grow both in size and scope, it is important to ensure that the operation is seamless operation and the ways of working can empower designers to work and collaborate easily. Yet today, in many teams, there are a number of invisible and hidden inefficiencies.
Understanding those inefficiencies, quantifying their impact, and identifying the biggest opportunities for the teams and the business is what DesignOps does, and these are the topics of this presentation.
Because efficient design teams do not happen. They are designed.
Working with frog's UX experts, Melinda curated, collated and edited the GE User Experience Playbook for all those charged with designing GE products and services.
As products and technologies continue to evolve, so too does the role of Product Management. We take a look at what Product Management is in 2016 and also ask some product experts and influencers what it will look like in the future.
Design Thinking Introduction & Workshop - NoVA UXJohn Whalen
What's Design Thinking, you ask? Design Thinking is a collaborative, human-centered approach to solving a wide range of complex problems. This one-hour, hands-on workshop will rapidly go through each stage of the design thinking process: understanding user's needs, framing the problem for creative solutions, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
This was a hands-on workshop in Design Thinking, where we'll roll up our sleeves and tackle some design problem-solving in groups.
DesignOps and the design of efficient teams: the metrics and the processes th...Patrizia Bertini
How efficient is your design team?
Do you know which are the most time consuming tasks for your team? And how are you measuring your team’s efficiency?
As Design teams grow both in size and scope, it is important to ensure that the operation is seamless operation and the ways of working can empower designers to work and collaborate easily. Yet today, in many teams, there are a number of invisible and hidden inefficiencies.
Understanding those inefficiencies, quantifying their impact, and identifying the biggest opportunities for the teams and the business is what DesignOps does, and these are the topics of this presentation.
Because efficient design teams do not happen. They are designed.
Working with frog's UX experts, Melinda curated, collated and edited the GE User Experience Playbook for all those charged with designing GE products and services.
As products and technologies continue to evolve, so too does the role of Product Management. We take a look at what Product Management is in 2016 and also ask some product experts and influencers what it will look like in the future.
Design Thinking Introduction & Workshop - NoVA UXJohn Whalen
What's Design Thinking, you ask? Design Thinking is a collaborative, human-centered approach to solving a wide range of complex problems. This one-hour, hands-on workshop will rapidly go through each stage of the design thinking process: understanding user's needs, framing the problem for creative solutions, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
This was a hands-on workshop in Design Thinking, where we'll roll up our sleeves and tackle some design problem-solving in groups.
You'll learn:
- How to create a clear UX strategy with teams across silos
- How to resource and plan tactics based on UX strategy
- How to track progress against your mission-based strategy
- How to delegate UX missions to designers
Design Systems: Designing out Waste, Designing in ConsistencyEqual Experts
Design Systems help modern innovative companies build new software quickly without waste and with a consistent look and feel.
They are the single source of truth to allow the teams to design, realise and develop a product.
From our work with Design Systems for Equal Experts' clients we have many learnings to share about benefits and risks and what needs to be overcome to get a system live and adopted.
SPEAKER: David Hawdale. Product and UX person at Equal Experts.
Contact www.equalexperts.com
Contact David: david.hawdale@hawdale-associates.co.uk
During this Morgenbooster, we will dive into the understanding of digital design systems, and why they have become increasingly popular.
What are they? How do they work? What will you gain from building one? And last, but not least we will take you through a couple of tangible experiences and journeys of building such a system.
Throughout the talk we will be sharing experiences from both a design and development perspective.
And hopefully we will all have the feeling of getting one step closer to a design system, which meets all the requirements in modern digital design. A system where all services, assets and communications are designed from one central place to evoke both emotions in a coherent brand experience and support the functional necessities of today’s dynamic business strategies.
Introduction to software creative services (now called User Experience Design) I developed in 2000. Adding for reference purposes. Terminology and some processes need updating, but much of the structure still applies today.
SUMMARY
“Our job, says Amazon CEO Bezos, is to invent new options that nobody’s ever thought of before and see if customers like them.”
The World’s Most Innovative Company - Fast Company March 2017
Deloitte and Touche found that customer-centric companies were 60% more profitable compared to companies that were not focused on the customer. Having a strong company wide customer focus is more important than being agile alone to create high-performance design. Learn how to keep the customers needs, emotions and behavioral actions at the center of every design to generate the most value. Harvesting insights from feedback and driving them back into the customer experience with speed at scale makes a company innovative and agile.
Understanding the mindset driving this way of working is the key to creating high-performance design. Embodying this mindset will give you the power to create a customer-centric culture where you are free to rapidly test and ship your most innovative ideas daily, ultimately delivering more value to your customers sooner.
AT THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Describe a customer-centric design process.
Outline and identify your customer feedback learning loop at every step of the design and product development process to drive continuous innovation, optimization and value.
Explain and embody the mindset that drives the culture, team, process, tools and technology choices required to build this customer-centric future.
12 Qualities of Effective Design OrganizationsPeter Merholz
It's not enough for a team to have great designers. Great design requires a well-run team, taking care of it's organizational, managerial, and operational needs. In this presentation, I outline 12 qualities of effective design organizations, and provide tools for assessing how well your organization is performing.
UX is often misunderstood - or worse, it's seen as another ambiguous buzzword. Teaching others the value of UX can be a frustrating/challenging/lonely journey. I'll share some of the experiences I've faced when posed with the challenge of building buy-in and how to help shift company attitudes and culture towards UX.
AgileUX, Lean Start Up, Design Thinking and how it all aligns - dave landisDave Landis
The following slides are a brief excerpt from my talk on Lean UX in a CrossFunctional World. The focus was to help engineers understand how Design Thinking, Agile and Lean Start Up all beautifully align to create products/services that customers love.
Presentation by Peter Boersma about Design Processes for Web Projects, given at a meeting of the Dutch front-end developers club Fronteers.nl on January 11, 2010 in Amsterdam. Deals with business, strategy, project management, research, design and evaluation aspects of web projects.
Slides from an in-house workshop I gave at CV&A Consulting in Barcelona. They were looking to include user-centered design activities in their knowledge management and e-learning projects.
Topic: UI/UX DESIGN IN AGILE PROCESS
Why do we integrate design into our Agile process?
As we all know, the Agile Manifesto is well-received and successfully adopted as it is today thanks to the 12 underpinning principles. While “good design” is one main reason that “enhances agility”, “Agile processes promote sustainable development”.
At Axon Active, it’s important for us to do everything Agile and work with one another collaboratively in Collaboration Model. It gets people on the same page, makes everyone engage more with the product, encourages them to share more creative ideas, and gives them the flexibility they need to improve themselves.
Indeed, Designers and Developers can collaborate more closely and effectively, and subsequently integrating design into Agile process will yield numerous benefits.
For that reason, Scrum Breakfast Da Nang this October will be the very chance for you to learn:
• How to successfully integrate design into Agile process in practice
• How different Collaboration Model is from traditional model
• The benefits of Collaboration Model when done correctly
At Techstartupday 2013 we gave a workshop on the importance of digital product design for startups and digital product managers. Together with Ontoforce we presented a behind the scene case study about the process of designing and building the Disqover platform.
Similar to Org Design for Design Orgs - The Workshop (20)
"Design at scale" is perhaps the most interesting challenge facing the design industry right now. How do you maintain quality and not get bogged down as your team grows? Much of the discussion focuses on systems and processes, but that can play into a mechanistic orientation that ends up limiting design's impact. In this talk, I stress how "Design at Scale" is humanism at scale, and share what's needed to keep people at the center of this work.
Coach, Diplomat, Champion, Architect: The Complete Design LeaderPeter Merholz
Design leaders need to play a lot of roles in order to succeed. This talk shares the four archetypes of the Design Leader: Coach (managing down), Diplomat (managing across), Champion (managing up), and Architect (shaping orgs as they scale.
The experience is the product (for Mind The Product 2016)Peter Merholz
The field of user experience emerged to compensate for poor product management. When we recognize that "the experience is the product," it becomes clear that these two fields are closely aligned.
In order for UX to achieve it’s potential, we need to reframe it as a profess...Peter Merholz
Presentation at Adaptive Path's UX Week 2012, wherein I attempt to articulate a professional definition for "UX Design" that is substantially different from the workflows-and-wireframes with which it is typically associated.
Making Business Human: Delivering Great Experiences in a Connected AgePeter Merholz
Slides from my talk at IA Summit 2012. Won't make much sense of you were there.
In it, I discuss how business must engage in humanist practices and values in this messy and complex Connected Age.
Don't focus on technology and features. Heck, don't focus on the "product." Focus on the experience you want to create, and build a system that gets you there.
The audio is from my talk at http://2007.dconstruct.org/.
You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Dive into the innovative world of smart garages with our insightful presentation, "Exploring the Future of Smart Garages." This comprehensive guide covers the latest advancements in garage technology, including automated systems, smart security features, energy efficiency solutions, and seamless integration with smart home ecosystems. Learn how these technologies are transforming traditional garages into high-tech, efficient spaces that enhance convenience, safety, and sustainability.
Ideal for homeowners, tech enthusiasts, and industry professionals, this presentation provides valuable insights into the trends, benefits, and future developments in smart garage technology. Stay ahead of the curve with our expert analysis and practical tips on implementing smart garage solutions.
2. Agenda
1. Your Product and Design Organization
2. The Expanded Role of Design
3. Organizational Models and Design Output
4. The 5 Stages of Design Organizations
5. The Untapped Opportunity for Design
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Strategy
Prototype
Customer
empathy Ideation
Experience
strategy
Prototype
solutions
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solution Refine
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options
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Initial
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17. Drawn from running a design firm, going in-house
Concern that these big investments are not going to
pay off, at least not to nearly their potential
At issue is not the product of design, but the unseen
stuff ‘behind the scenes’ that ultimately affects that
quality
Why do we teach this?
19. Centralized Internal Services
Your in-house agency
Project-based, organized by function
PROS
Strong design community
Clear lines of authority
Wide range of projects
Interface consistency
Efficiencies of work product
Optimized headcount
CONS
Design is not strategic
Little influence on important
“upstream” decisions
Designers easily dismissed
Us vs Them
Slow
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Everyone Gets A Designer!
Program-based
PROS
Business units gain control
Part of the team
Design included throughout entire
lifecycle
Feeling of ownership
Quick iterations post-launch
CONS
One narrow problem for a long time
Lonely
Fractured user experience
Less efficient use of time and people
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31. Centralized Partnership
aka “hybrid”, “federated”
Designers supported in career, development, and day-to-day.
Design teams maintain commitment across a meaningful set of
products/features.
Yet centralization helps maintain a holistic view across the entire
customer experience.
Teams allow for complete spread of needed skills.
Freedom to shift after ‘tours of duty’.
“Load balancing” keeps designers most productive.
32. Let’s say you have a set of product teams…
Growth Seller Tools
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Buyer
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Team
Seller
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36. Ken Norton
Noah Weiss
From Ken Norton’s “Don't Ship The Org Chart” Parts 1 and 2
Organize your product managers around
customers, not code repositories.
Connect PM areas of ownership to users and
their product experiences. Maybe you have a
buyer PM and a seller PM instead of back-end
and front-end PMs.
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Just like it’s ideal to organize your PM team
around customers and use cases, the same
goes for engineering.
Otherwise, you risk having a PM responsible
for a use case having to work with half a
dozen engineering teams to ship a feature:
server, web, iOS, Android, infra, etc.
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37. How could you embrace the Centralized
Partnership?
Design in teams
Organize by customer journey
DISCUSSION
38. One design organization to tie it all together,
organized by customer journey
management
marketing engineering
manufacturing
sales
support
design
39. …which requires a lot of skills!
Software Products
Hardware Products Environments
Communications
Interaction Design
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Prototyping
Industrial Design Wayfinding
Interior Architecture
Brand Identity Design
Graphic Design
Information Design
Motion Graphics
Packaging
The Journey
Service Design
Content
Copywriting
Content Strategy
Videography
Photography
Research
Ethnographic research
Usability testing
Quantitative studies
40. …and presence at all levels of scale
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Typography, colour, layout, interface design, spacing, animation,
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Integrated view of company’s entire offering, brand traits
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Requirements, briefs, desired results, planning, vision,
campaign concepts
10 ft
Structure
Flows, service blueprints, wireframes, wayfinding, navigation,
brand standards and guidelines, visual language
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Requirements, briefs, desired results, planning, vision,
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brand standards and guidelines, visual language
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Assess your levels of scale %
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Typography, colour, layout, interface design, spacing, animation,
transitions
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Integrated view of company’s entire offering, brand traits
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Requirements, briefs, desired results, planning, vision,
campaign concepts
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Flows, service blueprints, wireframes, wayfinding, navigation,
brand standards and guidelines, visual language
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45. Structure of each design team
4-7 folks
Singular strong leadership
• Manages down – gets the most and best out of their team
• Manages across – collaborates with cross-functional partners
• Manages up – presents to executives and other stakeholders
Dedicated to a customer type and their journey
Spread of skills – strategy, planning, research, IxD,
IA, visual design, prototyping
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46. How capable is your team in delivering
across the entire customer journey?
Across skills and scales?
How could you augment?
How integrated is the team to all corporate functions?
DISCUSSION
53. Does your design leadership have
autonomy and access?
Is design leading design?
Can they shape their org as they see fit?
Are they two or fewer rungs from the CEO?
QUICK DISCUSSION
55. Stage 1: The Initial Pair
HD
PD
Head of Design
•creative
•managerial
•operational
•(and, at this stage,
a maker)
Product Designer
• Structure
and/or
• Surface
56. Stage 2: A Full Team
HD
PD PD
PD
CS CD
PD
Content Strategist
•Voice and tone
•Content structure
•Copywriting
Communication Designer
• Visual designers
• Online and offline
• Brand
• Information design
57. Stage 3: From Design Team to Design Org
HD
PD
PD
CS
TL
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CS
UXR
CD
PD
Team Lead
•Not (necessarily) a
people manager
•Manages down,
sideways, and up
UX Researcher
•Generative and
evaluative
•Highly leveraged
Head of Design, revisited
•May struggle with scale
•Might need a new one
58. DM
Stage 4: Coordination to Manage Complexity
HD
PD
PD
CS CD
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PD
CS CD
PD
PM
TL
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Service Designer
•Strategy and
Structure
•Integrates across
teams
Program Manager
•Design Operations
•Organizational
effectiveness
•Not delivery
Design Manager
•Might be Team Lead
•People manager
•Still practices
60. Does your team suffer these issues?
• trouble coordinating internally, particularly around
process, communications, and file management
• difficulty collaborating with other parts of the
organization
• inappropriate staffing on projects and programs
• lack of visibility into related work streams
• duplicated efforts
• non-existent measurement
61. Little “o” Operations
“The sand in the gears”
Scheduling and budgets
Tools and procedures
Communication and coordination
Measured by effectiveness
62. Big “O" Operations
Annual planning ensuring adequate headcount
Compensation packages that are fair for the market
Adjustments to performance reviews to suit designers
Facilities and IT to support collaborative work styles
Policy changes to support real customer research
Big “O” Operations
63. How effective is your design team?
Do people feel like they’re spinning their wheels, putting in
a lot of effort but seeing few results?
Are projects/programs appropriately staffed?
Does the team have the resources they need to do great
work? (Machines, devices, physical space)
DISCUSSION
64. DM
Stage 4: Coordination to Manage Complexity
HD
PD
PD
CS CD
PDDM
PD
CS CD
PD
PM
TL
PDPD
CS PD
UXR UXR
SD
65. Stage 5: Distributed Leadership
HD
UXR
PM
PM
UXR
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UXR
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CS CD
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Design Director
• Oversees a swath of
teams/experiences
• Integrates across
teams
TL
TL
DM
DM
DM
Creative Director
•Focused solely on
creative leadership
•Establishes quality
standards
Director of Research
•Leads research team/
efforts
•Insights hub
Creative Technologist
•Prototypes new
experiences
•NOT a Front-end Dev
66. The Roles, Revisited
Leadership
Head of Design
Design Manager/Director
Creative Director
Team Lead
Director of Research
Director of Design Program
Management
Staff
Product Designer
Communication Designer
Content Strategist
UX Researcher
Service Designer
Program Manager
Creative Technologist
67. How do these stages resonate?
How about the roles?
DISCUSSION
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71. With a
1) centralized partnership,
2) teams with strong leadership,
3) influencing definition, and
4) a relatively small team,
you have leverage.
72. Leverage = Power
There’s no reason design can’t be the
driving force.
We just need confidence, evidence, and
commitment.
74. D D
DP P P P P P
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