14.01. Learn the skills to manage a design team

Learning how design teams work will make you understand how design organisational structures work, their methodologies, implementation of values, scaling design maturity or DesignOps.

01. Design Leadership Basics

Understanding how the design leadership role works or how design teams are built will give you a more holistic view of your environment, as well as enabling you to take your first steps into the world of design leadership.
Becoming a design leader
Aarron Walter & Eli Woolery
InVision Design Better
Level Advanced
26/07/19
Building the team
Aarron Walter & Eli Woolery
InVision Design Better
Level Advanced
26/07/19
Managing a design team
Aarron Walter & Eli Woolery
InVision Design Better
Level Advanced
26/07/19
Operationalizing design
Aarron Walter & Eli Woolery
InVision Design Better
Level Advanced
26/07/19
Forging alliances
Aarron Walter & Eli Woolery
InVision Design Better
Level Advanced
26/07/19
Shaping design vision
Aarron Walter & Eli Woolery
InVision Design Better
Level Advanced
26/07/19

02. Types of organizational structures for design teams

There are different organisational structures for design teams, whether centralised, decentralised or hybrid.
The State of Design Teams: Structure, Alignment, and Impact
Kate Kaplan
NN Group
Level Advanced
03/01/21
Where Should UX Report? 3 Common Models for UX Teams and How to Choose Among Them
Kate Kaplan & Kara Pernice
NN Group
Level Advanced
15/09/19
Design Team Structures: Centralized, Embedded and Flexible
Team Superside
Superside
Level Advanced
04/03/20

03. Better design methodologies

Defining well what the design processes are requires a basis of understanding what processes are available to us and which ones are best to implement, improve or adapt.
02. Design Methodologies
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04. Values for a design team

Establishing the core values of your design team will create cohesion among everyone. Remember not to force these values, but to create them among all team members.
Discovering your UX team’s core values
Dawn Ta
InVision
Level Medium
13/06/16
Team Values Toolkit
Dropbox Design Team
Dropbox Design
Level Medium
23/04/19
Design Values
Open Design Kit
Open Design Kit
Level Medium
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05. Design maturity within a company

Design maturity is given by the consolidation of design within the company, so we should be measuring maturity and aiming to increase it.
The 6 Levels of UX Maturity
Kara P., Sarah G., Kate M., Kathryn W.
NN Group
Level Medium
13/06/21
Corporate UX Maturity: Stages 1-4
Jakob Nielsen
NN Group
Level Medium
23/04/06
Corporate UX Maturity: Stages 5-8
Jakob Nielsen
NN Group
Level Medium
30/04/06
UX-Maturity Stage 1: Absent
Sarah Gibbons
NN Group
Level Medium
15/09/21
UX-Maturity Stage 2: Limited
Kate Moran
NN Group
Level Medium
19/09/21
UX-Maturity Stage 3: Emergent
Kate Kaplan
NN Group
Level Medium
24/10/21
UX-Maturity Stage 4: Structured
Rachel Krause
NN Group
Level Medium
21/11/21
UX-Maturity Stage 5: Integrated
Kara Pernice
NN Group
Level Medium
12/12/21

06. DesignOps for improved design processes within the team

DesignOps is the discipline of improving team design processes to make teams more capable, more efficient and more productive, reducing all possible friction.
DesignOps 101
Kate Kaplan
NN Group
Level Advanced
21/07/19
3 Steps for Getting Started with DesignOps
Kate Kaplan
NN Group
Level Advanced
15/11/20
DesignOps Maturity: Low in Most Organizations
Kate Kaplan
NN Group
Level Advanced
07/06/20
How to Write a Mission Statement for a UX Team: A Case Study in Design Operations
Kate Kaplan
NN Group
Level Advanced
03/10/21

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