Design Ops for Growing Product Teams
Rituals, tooling, and intake processes that keep design shipping with engineering.
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Design ops keeps intake, tooling, and rituals predictable so designers ship with engineering—not drown in slack requests and duplicate Figma files.
Intake process
Single form: problem, success metric, deadline, eng counterpart. Triage weekly—reject vague "make it pop" requests.
Tooling stack
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Figma | Source of truth |
| Storybook | Component parity |
| Linear/Jira | Linked tickets |
| Loom | Async critique |
Rituals
- Design critique weekly with cross-functional attendees
- Design-dev sync biweekly for upcoming sprint components
- Quarterly design debt sprint for doc and component cleanup
Capacity planning
Ratio guidance: 1 designer per 6–8 engineers for complex B2B—adjust per research load.
Design ops is friction removal—measure time from request to shipped component.
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