
The Design Conductors
Your Essential Guide to Design Operations
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Your favorite apps and programs share one thing in common: they are all thoughtfully designed. Design Operations is the business practice that ensures great design and great designers thrive and deliver meaningful impact. The Design Conductors is your comprehensive guide to DesignOps. You’ll learn how to successfully advocate for, build out, scale up, and ultimately operate design organizations.
Who Should Read This Book?
Although The Design Conductors is definitely for designers, it's also an essential field guide for product and project managers of all types. Anyone who works in the intersection of process and change management, such as healthcare, tech, or financial services, can learn the design methodologies used by DesignOps practitioners. People who work hand–in–hand with designers, particularly those in the fields of software, hardware, or creative design, will also find this book useful. Finally, leaders in design, product, business, and engineering should read this book to learn how to create their own DesignOps culture where teams who build great user experiences can thrive.
Takeaways
- Learn what DesignOps is and where it began.
- Explore the most common backgrounds for people who want to become DesignOps practitioners.
- Define the eight career competencies that all DesignOps practitioners share.
- Learn the practical application of building, running, and growing a DesignOps team—one that is already in existence or one that is built from scratch.
- Highlight the different kinds of paths a DesignOps professional can take in their career—with real-world examples.
- Operationalize values by leading to effect transformative changes in teams and businesses.
- Show how the four most common DesignOps org models influence the ways in which teams can function and be organized.
- Use the book’s comprehensive toolkit for both hiring or interviewing for a DesignOps team.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- How to Use This Book
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prologue: Design in Harmony
- Chapter 1. The First Note
- Chapter 2. Learning the Score
- Chapter 3. Drawn to the Stage
- Chapter 4. It’s All About Practice
- Chapter 5. Composing Your Career
- Chapter 6. Your DesignOps Crescendo
- Chapter 7. Playing Your Part
- Chapter 8. Shaped by the Orchestra
- Chapter 9. Your Performance Partners
- Chapter 10. From Soloist to Symphony
- Chapter 11. Ready to Take Up the Baton
- Chapter 12. Maintaining Your Rhythm
- Chapter 13. The Wrong Notes
- Chapter 14. Tuning Your Instruments
- Chapter 15. Measure by Measure
- Chapter 16. A Symphony of Talent
- Chapter 17. Epilogue
- Chapter 18. Encore
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors