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GRID Magazine started out of a need to share the knowledge from our internal courses with the wider design group. Today, we have reached over 200 articles and close to 5k subscribed readers. The ambition is to bring you the success stories about scaling the design proposition to your doorstep.

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Y23 Nº039 GRID Mag – Connecting the dots between your organisation and design value proposition

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-ninth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. No one would dispute that the primary …
March 30, 2023
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7 min read

Design Segments

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed Broadcasting Design(↘︎Link) and how having a centralised source of truth. In order …
March 29, 2023
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5 min read

Broadcasting Design

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed Design planning(↘︎Link) and how the basic structure of design operations can improve organisational …
March 27, 2023
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6 min read

Design Planning

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series, brought to you by Design at Scale™ Academy. In a previous article, we discussed ReDefine the Relationship(↘︎Link) and how we might approach entering development environments. This article …
March 24, 2023
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8 min read

Redefining Design Relationship

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed the relationship between Agile and Design(↘︎Link). This article will explore how designers …
March 22, 2023
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5 min read

Agile & Design

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed the Definition of Done(↘︎Link) and how it impacts the overall delivery. This …
March 20, 2023
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5 min read

Definition of Done

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed the Definition of Ready and how it impacts delivery within the in-house …
March 17, 2023
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4 min read

Design Handoff

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed how behaviour-driven development(↘︎Link) helps designers define user stories better and how we …
March 15, 2023
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6 min read

Behaviour Driven Development for Designers.

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed Confluence as a knowledgebase(↘︎Link) complementing the Atlassian Jira Board(↘︎Link). This article will …
March 13, 2023
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7 min read

Confluence Knowledgebase Integration

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed Sprint for Designers(↘︎Link) and how best to run your Sprint for designers …
March 10, 2023
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7 min read

Sprint for Designers 

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In a previous article, we discussed Scrum for Designers(↘︎Link) and how best to organise your work in the …
March 8, 2023
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6 min read

Scrum for Designers.

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series, brought to you by Design at Scale™—Academy. In a previous article, we discussed Kanban(↘︎Link) and its advantages for an agency or product design team. In this article, …
March 6, 2023
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6 min read

Kanban for Designers

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series, brought to you by Design at Scale™—Academy. After the basic intro(↘︎Link), let’s dive right in. Today’s article will examine the very principle of Kanban. Before we dive …
March 3, 2023
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7 min read

Setting the basics for delivering Design at Scale™

Welcome to the Jira for Designers series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy. In the following articles, we explore how designers can get the best out of Agile(↘︎Link), Agile UX(↘︎Link), and …
March 1, 2023
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5 min read

Marketing at Scale with Figma

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy(↘︎Link). Today, we’ll dive into Marketing(↘︎Link). As the majority of our work is to sell or promote someone's product or service, …
February 28, 2023
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4 min read

Y23 Nº038 GRID Mag – Design Operation in 21st century

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-eighth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Every organisation in the world strives to …
February 27, 2023
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5 min read

Figma File Structure.

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ Academy(↘︎Link). In the last article, we explored what role tiles play in Figma visual discovery and how we can improve the findability …
February 23, 2023
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7 min read

Figma Space Structure

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy(↘︎Link). After five articles and almost 100+ messages, “How do you …” here are two articles that will bring you closer …
February 21, 2023
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7 min read

Crafting Customer Experience in Figma.

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™—Academy (↘︎Link). Our previous articles have focused on the product(↘︎Link) and service design(↘︎Link) verticals in product design development(↘︎Link). The underlying factors for both …
February 16, 2023
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6 min read

Figma for Research teams that scale. 

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy(↘︎Link). This article aims to show how Figma(↘︎Link), let alone FigmaJam(↘︎Link), can bring your research closer to your product team.To clarify …
February 14, 2023
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6 min read

Scales organisations through FigmaJam

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy(001↘︎). The ambition behind this article is to look at how Figma, especially FigmaJam(002↘︎), assists Service Designers(003↘︎) in crafting their propositions. …
February 9, 2023
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5 min read

Figma for Product Design team that scales.

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ — Academy(↘︎Link). This article will focus on the product design settings for teams of one, ten, and one hundred — teams that …
February 7, 2023
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6 min read

Figma, a new destination for designers.

Welcome to the Figma series brought to you by Design at Scale™ – Academy(↘︎Link). In the following nine articles, we will explore the history behind cloud-based design propositions called Figma. We’ll discuss how the …
February 2, 2023
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4 min read

Y23 Nº037 GRID Mag – Signal vs Noise

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-seventh Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. As we enter the 21st century, we …
January 30, 2023
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4 min read

Y22 Nº036 GRID Mag – Managing up to scale up

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-sixth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Historically and sociologically, we have developed a …
December 30, 2022
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3 min read

Y22 Nº035 GRID Mag – Managing Down to scale up

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-fifth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. The number of recruiters has voiced out …
November 30, 2022
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4 min read

Y22 Nº034 GRID Mag – How to collect a feedback from your colleagues

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-fourth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. In our new series documenting design decisions, …
October 30, 2022
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3 min read

Y22 Nº033 GRID Mag – Accounting at scale

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-third Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Every small business and startup becomes profoundly …
September 30, 2022
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3 min read

Y22 Nº032 GRID Mag – Personal Finance at Scale

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-second Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. When I first discovered Ramit Sethi's book, …
August 30, 2022
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3 min read

Y22 Nº031 GRID Mag – Trading platforms at scale

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirty-first Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Trading has always been a little mysterious …
July 30, 2022
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4 min read

Learnings from two decades of building design systems.

Hi, I’m Jiri (in short J+). I’m a product designer who has coded since 1992. Before creating a design system, I built a wealth of brand guidelines and marketing packages for small, medium, and …
July 13, 2022
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12 min read

Y22 Nº030 GRID Mag – Power of One

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the thirtieth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Addressing the topic of high-performance teams, we …
June 30, 2022
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6 min read

Y22 Nº029 GRID Mag – Building a High Performing Design Team in your Organisation

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-ninth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Last month, we looked at high-performing teams …
May 30, 2022
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5 min read

Y22 Nº028 GRID Mag – Building a High Performing Design Team at the agency

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-eighth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. Building a high-performance team sounds like an …
April 30, 2022
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6 min read

Y22 Nº027 GRID Mag – Hiring designers is broken, here is how to fix it

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-seventh Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. The Google Meet call has started; I'm …
March 30, 2022
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5 min read

Y22 Nº026 GRID Mag – Why the Team of One is the best foundation of your design team

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-sixth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. The pandemic has had a profound impact …
February 27, 2022
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5 min read

Design Operation.

Welcome to the sixth article of this series that focuses on designers in the team of one. After diving deep into coms and opening the decision pathways for the technology, we should now look …
February 5, 2022
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6 min read

Y22 Nº025 GRID Mag – Finalising Research for Design at Scale™ Academy

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-fifth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. We are reaching a very interesting point …
January 30, 2022
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5 min read

Y21 Nº024 GRID Mag – Commercial banking at scale

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-fourth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. One of the greatest challenges for all …
December 30, 2021
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4 min read

Y21 Nº023 GRID Mag – 50+ workshop across centralised design function

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-third Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. You’ve got yourself a design system. How …
November 30, 2021
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3 min read

Y21 Nº022 GRID Mag – Five banks one design department

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-second Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. With a great response to our previous …
October 30, 2021
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3 min read

Y21 Nº021 GRID Mag – Banking at Scale

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twenty-first Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. A century-old fact is that banks, in …
September 30, 2021
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3 min read

Y21 Nº020 GRID Mag – The impact of acquisitions on the design function

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the twentieth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. From a business perspective, acquisitions are always …
August 30, 2021
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4 min read

Redefining Design Mentorship: Beyond the Myth of the “Perfect Mentor”

The tech industry, and design within it, often perpetuates a comfortable myth that every designer needs a single, seasoned mentor to navigate their career in constant change. That is why thousands of designers turn …
August 1, 2021
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6 min read

Y21 Nº019 GRID Mag – Where development and design shake hands to build great products

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the nineteenth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. When mentioning the design system, we often …
July 30, 2021
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3 min read

Make it Scale.

Welcome back to our Design at Scale™—Academy series, focusing on design practice in a team of one hundred. This article will close the series by examining the overall organisation as a well-functioning ecosystem. Traditionally, …
July 9, 2021
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5 min read

Everyone is Designer.

Welcome back to our Design at Scale™–Academy series, focusing on design practice in a team of one hundred. This article will explore the shift in the perception of the importance of design in large …
July 2, 2021
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5 min read

Y21 Nº018 GRID Mag – The decade of Integrated Design System

Dear (none)Designer, Welcome back to the eighteenth Design at Scale™ Newsletter – focusing on innovation and how design drives change in a large organisation or an agency. One would think that design systems only …
June 30, 2021
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3 min read

Transparency.

Welcome back to our Design at Scale™—Academy series, focusing on design practice in a team of one hundred. This article will explore the importance of the simple phenomenon called design transparency in the business. …
June 25, 2021
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6 min read

Broadcasting vs Protecting.

Welcome back to our Design at Scale™—Academy series, focusing on design practice in a team of one hundred. This article explores the contrasting mindsets of "protecting" and "broadcasting" design knowledge. We'll delve into how …
June 18, 2021
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5 min read

Dare to Scale

Design is on it’s pivotal point. Speed, strategy, thinking, craft, complexity, systemisation and the overall integration made design function 20x faster than 30 years ago. What is the next chapter of design?

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