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DesignOps Community Sensing Session (Videoconference)

Join us to explore the future of the DesignOps role, as well as the joys and challenges folks are facing in that role.

Inviting the Whole Org to Come See For Yourself

So all of a sudden, everyone at your company is interested in going into the field, meeting with clients, and “building empathy.” What could possibly go wrong? At ADP we created a program of ethnographic (lite) research designed to harness this excitement for exploratory research, enable anyone in the org to participate in conducting research, and help stakeholders think outside of their own product or screens. Secretly, our program was carefully designed to also teach our partners what it means to do Research: listen thoughtfully, analyze holistically, and truly understand client feedback before jumping to solutions.

Panel Discussion: Communicating the Value of DesignOps

Design Systems To-Go: Introducing a Starter Design System, and Indigo.Design Overview (Part 1)

A Design system is not only about standardizing the UI or accelerating design. In the big picture, it can streamline collaboration between design and development. With this goal in mind, an effective Design system is available to both designers and developers in a format that is native to each discipline. However, getting to this point takes time. But what if we can skip ahead with a starter Design system containing both design and coded components that are ready for use?

Join our activity sessions to see how you can transform your pixel-perfect designs into pixel-perfect code for modern web applications with Indigo.Design. We will also revisit the typical developer handoff by introducing a re-imagined workflow that minimizes rework. In the end, this approach can free up our focus to run Design-Ops better and deliver value sooner.

? Part 1 (Thursday): Introducing a starter Design system, and Indigo.Design overview
Part 2 (Friday): Reimagining developer handoff, and introducing App builder
Part 3 (Friday): Indigo.Design overview and exploring the developer workflow

Conversations with Things: UX Design for Chat and Voice

Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe first crossed paths on a Slack channel back in 2018, where they were seeking out colleagues who might know a thing or two about conversation design.. Fast forward to 2021, and their new book on conversation design is finished and available for preorder! Conversations with Things teaches you how to design conversations that are useful, ethical, and human-centered—because everyone deserves to be understood, especially you. In this episode, they chat with Lou about writing the book, the ethics of voice design, and more.

Design Planning and Management Support

Looking for ways to improve your design planning and management process and tools? We’ve got you covered.
Whether you are an individual contributor or a DesignOps manager, everyone needs ecosystem visibility at multiple levels of altitude to help answer questions like:

  • What components am I working on next?
  • What screens use those components?
  • How many components and templates are complete?
  • What content types will be using those components?

You also need quick access to all the relevant design outputs that aren’t kept in a design system and are updated throughout the design process (e.g. information architecture, content types, taxonomies, interaction models, etc.)

When you work with Limina, we not only help you get UX done, but we empower your teams with new processes and tools to address the design planning and management needs and system thinking gaps in your organization

Interested in learning more?

  • As we partner with you, we will include our design planning and management templates and tools along with the design deliverables. You will see the tools in action during our collaboration, and we will empower you to own and manage the tools going forward.
  • Or, maybe you would prefer the mentorship or coaching approach? We can get to know your current state, introduce you to our process and tooling best practices, and guide you through the learning process

Psst…inside scoop: Design planning and management is a core knowledge management function that is deployed as you iterate through the design process

Making Good Trouble: DesignOps Summit co-curator Alana Washington

Alana Washington and Lou embark on a really wide-ranging conversation, touching on:
• The changing nature of work in the time of pandemic,
• How we can handle the intersection of our personal and private lives when working remotely,
• The restorative power of something as simple as putting down the phone and holding a physical book, and
• How DesignOps can help businesses enact more human-based processes.

Alana serves as a Senior Design Program Manager at Uber Freight. She’s also part of the DesignOps Summit 2020 curation team. The team is looking to frame the program against the difficult backdrop of these challenging times, when designers need more support than ever before. That’s why resilience is our theme for DesignOps 2020; we’ll explore design operations’ role in helping individual designers, design teams, and entire organizations adapt, survive, and thrive.

Kendra Shimmell and Lou Rosenfeld discuss the opportunities for designing well-crafted Enterprise UX

What does quality and craft look like in the Enterprise UX world? Kendra and Lou take on the unique challenges of designing software to meet the needs of a constantly changing world.

Craft Amid Complexity is a key theme at the upcoming Enterprise UX 2015 conference, where Kendra will deep dive into the topic along with fellow experts David Cronin, Uday Gajendar and Peter Morville.

Scaling ResearchOps: Helping Researchers do Their Best Work

Research in many organizations has become all about speed and efficiency, making contextual research difficult. The solution for some is to introduce a ResearchOps layer.

Brigette will introduce you to the Eight Pillars – the broad areas that researchers care about. These pillars remain the same, whether you’re just ‘getting organized’ or are doing research at scale. From here, you can start to think about operationalizing research in your organization. Drawing on her experience as a Research Ops specialist, Brigette will outline the journey- from organized to operationalized. Whatever the scale, Ops’ mission is to help researchers do their best work.

Beyond Insights: Researchers as Organizational Change Catalysts

Researchers must adeptly navigate a dual remit in organizations. The initial challenge involves delivering insights that matter. The subsequent task requires discerning the necessary adjustments the organization must undertake to effectively act upon those insights. In this presentation, we’ll talk about a model of change and a theory of power to enable researchers to embrace and fulfill their dual mission. It is at this intersection of meaning and action that research can impact lives.