Design Operations helps designers become more effective, frees them up to do their best work, while collaborating with their product partners in more successful ways. Red and Brian discuss with guests key understanding, skills, and mindsets to solve the challenges facing design teams and organizations. This podcast is valuable for designers at every stage of their careers. It is also for design teams of every size, even the design team of one. It is also useful for product engineers and product managers in understanding how they can align with and support the maturity of design.

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We share insights from Day 3 at the <a href="https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2020/" rel="nofollow">DesignOps Summit 2020</a>. We discuss the value of accessible and inclusive design and how to advocate for it. We talk about how you can operationalize business values through DesignOps. We share our opinion of how DesignOps is the new competitive business advantage. We go over several ways on how you can automate things in design. We wrap things up with our vision on the future of DesignOps. <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/" rel="nofollow">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1</a>. Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theopsofdesign/" rel="nofollow">@theopsofdesign</a>. At some point in your life, you are going to experience some disability. That disability may be situational, it may be temporary, it may be permanent. At some point you will need accessible/inclusive design. - Sheri Byrne Haber Design used to be the competitive advantage. Speed and quality are new the competitive advantage - Farid Sabitov ﻿Design libraries are a form of automation. One of the first critical pieces of operationalizing design is design libraries. - Red Dolan

Day 3 at the DesignOps Summit 2020

DesignOps Summit 2020 Day 3

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We share insights from Day 2 at the <a href="https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2020/" rel="nofollow">DesignOps Summit 2020</a>. We discuss the importance of operationalizing great ideas within your team and org. We share how embracing your skeptics can improve your ideas and solutions. We go over ways to plan your days for deep work as well as ways to recharge your batteries so that you don’t get burnt out. Lastly, we share ideas on how to create intentional moments of connection. Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theopsofdesign/" rel="nofollow">@theopsofdesign</a>.

We share insights from Day 2 at the DesignOps Summit 2020.

DesignOps Summit 2020 Day 2

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We share insights from Day 1 at the <a href="https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2020/" rel="nofollow">DesignOps Summit 2020</a>. We talk about what it was like to attend a virtual conference and how being part of a cohort changed that experience. We share our perspectives of the growth in Design and DesignOps. We go into how psychological safety affects the brain. We discuss the value of celebrating mistakes. Lastly, we go over the cost of not having DesignOps. Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theopsofdesign/" rel="nofollow">@theopsofdesign</a>.Check out the conference website: <a href="https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2020/" rel="nofollow">DesignOps Summit 2020</a>

Day 1 at the DesignOps Summit 2020

DesignOps Summit 2020 Day 1

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In this episode we discuss why we wanted to start this podcast, The Ops of Design. We share our perspectives of what DesignOps is and the value it brings to you as a designer and your team and organization. We also share how we are motivated by giving back to the Design community. Lastly we discuss how DesignOps is valuable to the business. Book: <a href="https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/" rel="nofollow">Atomic Design</a> by Brad Frost. Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theopsofdesign/" rel="nofollow">@theopsofdesign</a>.

In this episode, we discuss why we wanted to start this podcast.

Why did we start the podcast?

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We talk about how we, and others, define DesignOps. We go into how the needs of one team or organization may differ from another and how this affects the focus of DesignOps. We share many examples of how these needs get translated into solutions. Lastly, we cover how it responds to the ever-changing demands of the team, including things like pandemic stressors. <a href="https://clarity.design/" rel="nofollow">Clarity Design System</a> and <a href="http://figma.com/@vmware" rel="nofollow">Figma Libraries</a>. Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theopsofdesign/" rel="nofollow">@theopsofdesign</a>.

We talk about how we, and others, define DesignOps.

What is Design Ops?

Design Operations helps designers become more effective, frees them up to do their best work, while collaborating with their product partners in more successful ways. Red and Brian discuss with guests key understanding, skills, and mindsets to solve the challenges facing design teams and organizations. This podcast is valuable for designers at every stage of their careers. It is also for design teams of every size, even the design team of one. It is also useful for product engineers and product managers in understanding how they can align with and support the maturity of design.