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Theme One Intro
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Thursday, September 8, 2022 • DesignOps Summit 2022
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Theme One Intro
Speakers: Jon Fukuda
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Summary

The speaker begins by recounting a 2009 TEDx talk by Joel Salatin, a farmer who highlighted how enhancing the natural environment for chickens resulted in superior eggs. This story serves as a metaphor for Design Operations, illustrating the contrast between disrespecting or honoring the ecosystem — in this case, the design ecosystem. The speaker, addressing the 2022 Design Ops Summit audience, urges design ops professionals to bring a sense of nobility and sacredness to their work. They argue that by doing so, design teams can thrive because Design Ops creates the natural conditions needed for designers, researchers, and cross-functional collaborators to perform effectively. Beyond managing processes and tools, Design Ops encompasses building a design-rich culture, fostering collaboration, managing resources, and driving team dynamics and career development. The talk sets the stage for the summit’s theme on growing successful Design Ops practices through shared journeys and insights from various speakers.

Key Insights

  • Using a farming metaphor, Joel Salatin’s approach highlights how nurturing the natural conditions leads to higher quality outcomes in design teams.

  • Design Ops is much more than process optimization; it’s about creating environments where designers and researchers can flourish.

  • Bringing care, thoughtfulness, and a sense of nobility to design work can elevate the performance and culture of design organizations.

  • Successful Design Ops requires balancing day-to-day tactical work with long-term strategic consistency and quality.

  • Effective Design Ops manages a broad range of skills including team dynamics, cross-functional collaboration, learning and development, and career architecture.

  • The complexity of Design Ops often means professionals must juggle multiple priorities simultaneously, acting as versatile enablers.

  • Growing Design Ops teams involves learning from the journeys of experienced practitioners who have navigated these complexities.

  • Design Ops leadership can make design processes more efficient and create high-performing cultures through thoughtful resource and delivery management.

  • Sacredness and nobility in the vocation of Design Ops invites the wider organization and world to rise and support design efforts.

  • The summit’s thematic workshops intend to cover the depth and breadth of Design Ops, helping practitioners expand their capabilities.

Notable Quotes

"If we strive for nobility and sacredness in our given vocations, the world will rise to meet us."

"Design Ops is far more than measuring and optimizing processes and tools."

"We’re helping to create those natural conditions in which design and designers thrive."

"It’s about making researchers, designers, and cross-functional collaborators more efficient and more highly performant."

"Design Ops involves a broad spectrum of skills from team dynamics to career architectures."

"You’re either running around playing whack-a-mole in your own organization or growing a team of Design Ops managers who can fire on all cylinders."

"Care, attention, and thoughtfulness we bring to strategic engagements and daily tactics define our impact."

"The journey of growing successful Design Ops practices is one we learn from by sharing our experiences."

"Creating a high-performing culture of design goes beyond tools—it’s about people and processes aligning."

"There’s a way of doing things that fully respect the ecosystem we’re all a part of."

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