Measuring, Defining and Improving Productivity: The Design Productivity Blueprint

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• Article Spotify Design Team Elsewhen Whether you manage a team of designers, have set up a Design Ops team or are considering doing so, or you just have a stake in design output at your organisation, creating the space for designers to do their best work is a key concern.
• The Partner, The Challenge, and Managing Change We recruited a co-conspirator to help us define and investigate productivity, and locate any opportunities that might emerge as a result.
• We also knew that once we identified them, we could order them and start tackling them one by one.
• Workshops — Define Designer Productivity as a group for your organisation and uncover how to measure it Synthesise — Build a service design blueprint to describe a common designer workflow, and identify your problems and opportunities Productivity Canvas — Share your productivity findings with the wider team, to include them in the process of making improvements The tool places emphasis on bottlenecks rather than just reducing time spent on the process.