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Speaking
Why and how are creative agency leaders and traditional graphic designers finding their way into DesignOps? What is the future of DesignOps within traditional design agencies?
Most who are looking into the DesignOps space know it for its focus on the Ps: People, Process, Practice — mostly for technology, and mostly for Product design.
In this talk, Frances Yllana will discuss the opportunities for agency leaders to invite DesignOps into the agency space—either as essential functions or a defined discipline and leadership role. Once DesignOps is accepted into this space, might it finally achieve its most elusive P: Parity.
As DesignOps practitioners we spend all our time trying to optimize and empower everyone else to do their best work. How do we apply DesignOps to our own work so we can empower ourselves, as individuals and teams, to build successful DesignOps functions, and make DesignOps benefits more accessible to teams of all sizes and resources – all while growing our own impact on the companies we serve?
This session aims to advance the DesignOps discipline by taking a step back and showing us how to look at our own work and goals, and apply the same amount of compassion to ourselves as we do our stakeholders and teams.
Education
AIGA's Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders is an executive business certificate program curated for design professionals in partnership with the Yale University School of Management. The program—held at Yale University in New Haven, CT—is taught by experienced Yale Faculty who incorporate design-related industry examples into the coursework.
The Yale Management curriculum is designed to instill a greater competency in meeting the evolving challenges of management, as well as honing personal career aspirations within a small community of senior industry leaders. Yale teaches core subjects in an integrated way, providing frameworks and concepts in a richer, more relevant context, to guide leadership to become better leaders, master strategy, navigate change, expand their network and optimize their teams to drive growth.