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The ultimate list of Design and DesignOps metrics
Getting started with metrics as a designer can be difficult! Here's a list of some common metrics you and your teams can use.
Ryan Rumsey
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Growing as a design leader–an interview with Christina Goldschmidt
Christina Goldschmidt, Warner Music Group’s VP Product Design, on how she creates repeatable systems through brain hacking, has learned to give things away, maintains her core self, and much more.
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Turn your OKRs into logical, measurable categories of design health – introducing POKRs
Expanding traditional OKR methodology with Perspectives – categories that show strategic objectives connect and build upon one another.
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5 steps to find stakeholders and key collaborators who will champion your ideas.
There will always be people who are skeptical of design. Great design leaders focus on early adopters and executives who will be your champions.
Active listening is a powerful way to grow your influence–and it's learnable
Learn a dialogue script to practice active listening with your colleagues to ask for small behavior changes.
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Create strong business cases with The Situation, Complication, Resolution (SCR) framework
When it comes to communicating business rationale, a great communication structure can make or break your presentation. Learn the secret structure used by top consultancies around the world.
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Two effective (and accepted) ways to choose between multiple ideas
There are multiple ways a team can achieve a goal. Learn two of the most effective ways to make a hard decision and get a clear, shared plan moving forward.
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When OKRs work well (and don’t)
Over the last 20+ years, many other companies have implemented (or tried to) OKRs with varying degrees of success; here's what works well and doesn't.
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When you lead Design, Design is the product.
When you lead Design teams, most of your colleagues don't think about design as a craft or practice. They think about it as a group of people with specific skills. Your challenge is to know who is an early adopter of those skills, and who is more skeptical.
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Track and adapt how design creates, delivers, and captures for the rest of the company
Gain a deeper level of understanding in how your partners perceive you and the value you provide with The Good Partner Map
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Why adding quantifiable measures to design work is important
Showing the actual value of ethics, morals, or emotions is what convinces companies and business leaders to prioritize those things.
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Quickly evaluate if the conditions are ripe for change with Force Field Analysis
Rapidly examine which of your colleagues and stakeholders are ready for change with this powerful, and easy to implement visualization tool.
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The biggest development issue I see in design leadership today.
To my design leader friends, there’s a topic we need to explore further together. I’m going to do my best to start it in a meaningful, supportive way.
I was directing design. And I was utterly stuck.
The most effective design leaders I know leverage nuance to overcome self-doubt in five steps.
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How Business Thinking transforms designers
The most effective design leaders I know leverage nuance to overcome self-doubt in five steps.