Design Operations: Application and Archetypes of the Discipline
summary
Design operations builds the team rhythm and removes operational overhead: one design Ops person runs an one-person innovation lab that creates a standard Sprint brief, a dedicated Sprint space and accountability rituals, produces a multi‑million‑dollar What‑If Times Square campaign and the long‑press save flow, and consults with Jake Knapp’s Google Sprint format. At scale it owns a Figma hygiene program for ~500 designers, coordinates research ops and experiments, and typically lands around a 1:12 Design Ops to designers ratio; sprints run five days to three weeks.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:54Candace Myers
- 9:28boosting the understand phase
- 9:42design sprints
- 13:15supercharge your design system
- 25:42If you're in the business of design, you're in the business of design operations
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