Design Your Design Organization

As the move to establish in-house design teams accelerates, it turns out there’s very little common wisdom on what makes for a successful design organization. In this workshop, Peter Merholz draws from his groundbreaking book Org Design for Design Orgs to shine a light on the unsung activities of actually running a design team, the organizational and operational challenges and considerations, and what works and what doesn’t. The workshop will be structured as a facilitated conversation, light on presentation, with activities to get things going.

What you’ll learn:

• The importance of (re-)structuring your design organization to deliver the best experience to your users
• A maturity model for assessing just how effective and sophisticated your design organization is
• An understanding of what roles to bring on at what stages of organizational growth
• Management tips for getting the most out of your team
• A clear levels framework that supports designer professional development, and plugs into operations across your design organization
• How to establish a DesignOps practice in your organization