DesignOps

Sitting at the intersection of digital transformation, design thinking, CX strategy and product development and delivery, DesignOps provides a human-centered framework for the orchestration of cross-functional teams and processes, enabling creativity and scaling impact. For future-oriented companies seeking to deliver innovative products and experiences at scale, DesignOps is the key.

In order to compete, today’s organizations must ensure that design is one of their core competencies. Just as DevOps has revolutionized the product development process through its iterative, agile approach, DesignOps provides teams with a similar framework for design processes. With decades of experience in product, experience and organizational design, we help our partners operationalize and scale their design capabilities in order to support all other aspects of the organization.

At frog, we believe design is a fundamentally collaborative and cooperative process. We help organizations elevate design by working to understand their internal structures, processes and needs, and then partnering with them to develop the tools and strategies that will unlock the untapped design potential that already exists within their organization. By combining the power and flexibility of DesignOps with the structures and strategies of Organizational Design, we provide our partners with the tools they need to ensure alignment behind a customer-centric vision and accelerate innovation in support of that vision. 

DesignOps helps our clients meet their specific design goals by assessing and addressing five key organizational inputs. 

• Purpose: Why do you need design, and how will it help you win? For design teams to add holistic and strategic value to the organization, they need to understand their purpose within it.  
• Talent: DesignOps supports positive employee experiences, aids your organization in attracting and cultivating talent, and strengthens the design capabilities and behaviors that serve your purpose.  
• Processes: To facilitate knowledge sharing, accelerate decision making, align metrics for success and capture feedback and insight, you must implement purposeful processes for connecting people and information across the organization.  
• Enablers: Many processes are powered by collaborative enablers—tools and systems that facilitate communication and cooperation. By deploying dynamic, cloud-based enablers, organizations can amplify the impact of design by reducing friction between teams.  
• Structure: How an organization assigns authority and structures decision-making will determine how design operates within it. DesignOps helps ensure that design is engaged with the right teams at the right times to meet the tactical and strategic needs of the business.