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DesignOps + KPIs = Measure your Impact!

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Monday, January 8, 2024 • DesignOps Summit 2020
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DesignOps + KPIs = Measure your Impact!
Speakers: Patrizia Bertini
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Summary

DesignOps is all about scaling up design teams while creating organizational efficiencies yet it is not always evident how impact and gained efficiencies can be quantified and measured. There’s a certain confusion around what are the inefficiencies and there is no established process to determine those metrics. This session is not about providing a list of metrics to be replicated. It’s about providing a tested approach on how to identify, quantify, and measure inefficiencies and how to define measurable and realistic targets. This approach can be applied and replicated in any context to support the DesignOps community to gain additional credibility and to ensure DesignOps professionals are able to demonstrate the value of their work to the business with objective data points and quantifiable gains.

Key Insights

  • Value in design is relational, shaped by the quality of relationships and context, not merely monetary worth.

  • Design has three key customers: business, design leaders, and design teams; balancing their priorities is crucial.

  • Context is the essential frame that influences perception of value, priorities, and strategy.

  • Efficiency in designOps can be understood as maximizing output quality while minimizing input resources.

  • The classic triangle of scope, cost, and time remains fundamental for operational efficiency decisions.

  • There are no universal designOps KPIs; each organization must define KPIs based on its unique context and strategic goals.

  • Systems thinking reveals how improving one efficiency dimension triggers cascading improvements across design teams and business.

  • Hypothesis-driven experimentation helps determine the highest impact areas for operational improvements.

  • Quantifying non-design tasks consuming designers’ time can reveal hidden inefficiencies and opportunities for savings.

  • Translating designOps impact into business language (time saved, cost reduced) strengthens design’s value proposition.

Notable Quotes

"What is your design footprint? Because we do the things we do for a reason."

"Value is not equal to worth; it's how much people perceive something’s worth based on relationships."

"Context is all those external circumstantial variables that help us make sense of reality."

"Efficiency means spending less energy to get more brightness — spending fewer resources for better results."

"Your impact depends on strategic goals and context; without clarity, you won’t have the maximum impact."

"DesignOps KPIs don’t exist universally; they emerge from your organization’s context and what you can influence."

"If designers are spending time on non-design work, they are not doing design — and that’s the real problem."

"Without data, we are just a person with an opinion — you can’t measure performance or impact without data."

"Applying systems thinking means changing one part affects the whole system — there’s no linearity in relationships."

"DesignOps should be the bridge between business and designers, translating design’s value in business language."

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