Design at Scale™
Welcome to Design at Scale™.
History
20+
Twenty-plus years in making, questioning, adjusting, fine-tuning, integrating and connecting the knowledge behind the Design at Scale™
Userbase
+5k
Over the last three years, more than 5k professionals have approached us, recognising that knowing design is not enough.
The Method that empowers designers in complex product development environments. We coach designers and teams on how to break the silos, challenge the proposition and deliver well-integrated products across multiple touchpoints serving the business and the customer.
The landscape of the
product design development.
“Future is faster than you think” – Steven Kotler, in his book, describes the phenomenon of the future that is getting ahead of us by outsmarting the present. Similarly, Salim Ismail, in his “Exponential Organisations”, shows how 11 attributes of exponential organisations work as a catalyst for any business that wishes to scale.
365
Service
Our services are available 365 days a year, helping teams to monitor, manage and make contextual data-driven decisions about their design propositions.
Design at Scale™ is here to take your design team and bring it to the 21st century of design. No double diamonds, no rigorous decks of planning and suggesting the future.
Clean, measurable, fully automated decision-making that is both transparent and simple enough to integrate for any design team out there.
Framework
The
Method.
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The key part of communicating design is actually communicating the design value proposition to the user with an impact on the business rather than how great is our design system.
We focus on building designers that are curious to communicate the impact while mastering their craftsmanship.
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Technology
Technology has impacted many industries – without the exception of design delivery.
Automation, algorithms and tokens become a daily necessity rather than a nice to have. Every designer of 21st-century building experiences for wider audiences faces the fact of mastering the technology, integration and prototyping to achieve the desired impact.
03
Simple stage and gate, double diamond or sequence roadmap are no longer applicable in the dynamic, forever changing environments of our day-to-day design integrations.
Empowering your team with an interactive dashboard showing a live feed that reflects the deliverables of your team allows decision-making in the first line of success.
Challenge
How can we build the future with tools and methods from the past? Linear, static and sequential models based on predictive management enforced by the scarcity blocking innovation across small, medium and large businesses implementing Design at Scale™ – there is a better way.
The Method takes a specific lens on communication, technology and operation to ensure that direction, continuous progress, delivery and integration are not based on assumptions and biases but, respectively, on measurable, flexible increments – ensuring that all parties are involved and well-informed to achieve desirable outcomes.
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The Design Publication.
Grid.
125
Content
Tailored stories that describe how to leverage the knowledge behind Design at Scale™
Knowledge
+20Y
Twenty years in making, discussing, challenging, asking, applying and fine-tuning the design method that helps break the bureaucratic silos, protectiveness and toxic environments.
20-01
The stories behind the scenes and how the community of like-minded individuals scale their design propositions.
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Newsletter
Subscribe.
Subscribe.
To a tailored list of meaningful snippets that help design leaders to manage their daily challenges at scale.
Mentorship & Coaching
Academy.
A destination for designers, students and like-minded individuals to connect. The space to meet, collect and articulate our challenges. An environment we test our ideas and share our knowledge.
A personal experience that is both intellectual, intelligent and, above all, practical.
A whole new way to connect with like-minded design professionals that scale-up design.
Engaging in collaborative sessions that focus on your challenges across the projects, team propositions or the entire design department.
A social enterprise rewarding for transparency, facilitation, craftsmanship, creativity and a deep sense of tribal leadership.
The collaborative environment of professionals who share their stories through the lens of design at scale. Think, act, measure & repeat.
* With just as 1% of designers who share the same principles and etique. We’ll be able to scale the business exponentially and deliver a value of $1b across businesses ranging from 1-400 designers in function.
Only one per cent of designers actually change the world – be that one per cent.
Courses.
Voluntering
CV & Portfolio
Interview
Positioning
Career Swap
Team of One
One Designer
Building the Trust
Beyond Coms.
Automation
Team of Ten
One Team
What’s Your Role
Relationships
Integration
Team of One Hundred
One Department
Building Aliences
Believes
Transparency
Communication
How can I communicate better?
Every good designer strives for perfection – to design an experience that is both meaningful and beautiful, to close the loop of interaction in a connected experience.
What the majority of us don’t realise is that we are part of the bigger team, which needs the justification of all our actions, decision and aspiration prior to and after we design our unique system.
To become better designers, we all need to become better communicators, better facilitators and most certainly better connectors.
Technology
Automate not to impress but to express
Thousands of businesses all around the world still copy and paste – text, graphics, imagery and sound. Copy of copies lies on the server no one will ever use.
Smart designers connect all parties together. We use the latest copy integrated via API. We update our design with tokens and we record and present live designs rather than images in PowerPoint.
We are interconnected product designers – we are designers that scale!
Operations
What si my role in the product team?
Whenever we join the organisation we deploy a greater discovery across the business. What is our role in the team, what is the role of the team and how does it fit to the department and the organisation?
The advantage of a designer that scales the organisation is to connect and make visible what is unseen or unspoken. Navigating through the complexity with a simple mindset to serve with the profound knowledge you bring to the table.
Design is no longer a distinct discipline we are well integrated within business and development functions delivering substantial increments.
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Assets
Supply.
Empowering designers since 2000 through a variety of design networks – Now in one single location.
Articles
Inspiring
Others
Articles we bringing to the community are the stories from the practical implementation of the Design at Scale™ in small, medium and large businesses.
Keynote
Value
Proposition
Design at Scale™ provides basic guidance and keynotes that you can share with your leadership and invite them to share the common vision of well-integrated products and services.
Once you go through the academy you’ll be skilled enough to deal with all these situations alone and run the courses by yourself.
Assets
Application
Agnostic
Assets, graphs and charts are created for sharing. We follow a simple rule of 20/80 where 20% of our assets are for free and 80% of our assets are paid. All our assets are SVG files therefore accessible in Figma (usable in Illustrator, Sketch, or even CorelDraw) – knock yourself out.
Libraries
Figma
Space
Figma space offers a summary of presentations, assets and UI Kits that we believe will help you to deliver value on the scale.
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Articles
23
Keynote
72
Assets
Take me to Supply.
Your Story
Matters.
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