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Tuesday, September 24, 2024 • DesignOps 2024
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Speakers: Frances Yllana
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Summary

This talk, presented at the 2024 Rosenfeld Design Ops Summit, delves into the nuanced challenge of defining and measuring the impact of design operations. The speaker reflects on their own journey at co forma, emphasizing the importance of becoming a subject matter expert in metrics, OKRs, and human-centered change management. They highlight how design ops delivers value by improving people, processes, practices, and ultimately products, but its impact is often intangible and difficult to quantify. The summit brings together voices such as Cassandra, John, Rachel, John Paul, Reman Amrit, Emily, Maria, Orge, and Brianna, each contributing frameworks, automation strategies, AI applications, leadership cultivation, and unified systems to elevate design ops’ influence. The talk challenges the community to adopt a human-centered approach, recognize quiet leadership, leverage collective intelligence, and use data wisely to boost employee wellbeing and demonstrate design ops’ strategic value. The session promises practical tools and inspiration to empower participants to evolve their practice and make measurable, sustainable impact within their organizations.

Key Insights

  • Design ops impact is complex and not easily quantifiable like traditional business metrics.

  • Tracking progress through positive feedback like ‘You made my job easier’ messages can be a valuable motivational tool.

  • Balancing strategic vision with tactical execution helps secure stakeholder buy-in and drives adoption.

  • Frameworks from John and Rachel’s new book, Design Conductors, offer new ways to define and measure design ops impact.

  • Small firms like John Paul’s UI design studio can leverage automation and custom tools to improve efficiency and employee wellbeing.

  • Large enterprises can transform designers from doers into influential decision makers, as demonstrated by Reman Amrit.

  • Unified systems, as shared by Emily and Maria, can harness the full potential of collective intelligence in design ops teams.

  • AI can be used effectively to organize intelligence and content at scale, enabling teams to focus on high-impact work.

  • Cultivating an adaptive leadership ecosystem allows design ops to thrive amidst rapid change, as shown by Brianna.

  • Humanizing measurement approaches helps recognize the often quiet contributors and the real value of design ops.

Notable Quotes

"Measuring impact in design ops has always been a little stormy."

"The impact of design ops isn’t as easy to define or predict like other business value measures."

"I seriously encourage all of you to create a portfolio of ‘You made my job easier’ messages—it’s a great pick me up."

"We’re building and securing better frameworks and futures rather than tangible, countable widgets."

"How might we unlock the full capabilities of our most valuable resource—our people, their skills, their knowledge, and their potential?"

"How might we humanize how and what we measure and recognize as impact?"

"Today’s speakers will guide us towards defining, measuring, and growing our impact with the people, processes, practices, and products we steward."

"Balancing strategic vision and tactical execution inspires teams to secure stakeholder buy-in and drive positive change."

"AI can help us organize intelligence and content at scale even with limited resources."

"Cultivating a leadership ecosystem that thrives on rapid change is key to sustainable impact."

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