Short course | Beginner friendly | Online/On-campus | Lecturer Driven | Practical
Design Operations
Design Operations is the discipline of scaling design effectively within organisations — building the systems, processes, and culture that allow design teams to work at their best. This hands-on 2-week course introduces you to the DesignOps frameworks, tools, and workflows used by modern design teams, guided by an industry-experienced lecturer.
What you'll learn?
Design Operations
Duration
1 week
Next course
19 October 2026 – 21 October 2026
Price, starting at
Scale design that actually works
As design teams grow, the systems, processes, and culture behind the work become just as important as the work itself — and that's where Design Operations comes in. In this course you'll learn what DesignOps is, why it matters, and how it creates measurable impact in organisations of any size. You'll explore the key pillars of DesignOps including team structure, onboarding, tooling, design system governance, process documentation, and measurement frameworks. In Week 2 you'll apply these concepts to practical scenarios, building the skills to assess and improve design operations in a real organisational context. You'll leave with a Certificate of Completion from the Academy of Digital Arts and a practical DesignOps framework ready to apply in your workplace.
What you'll learn
In this course you will learn the following skills:
- What is DesignOps? Role and responsibility
- Working in agile and lean environments
- Design briefs, critique sessions and design QA
- Team rituals: standups, retros and feedback loops
- Tooling: Figma, Jira, Notion, Zeplin, Trello
- How to run cross-functional design sprints
- Communicating with product managers and engineers
How it works
The course runs Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 pm to 8 pm. On Tuesdays there will be a check-in session with the lecturer.
Over the runtime of the course you will learn everything from scratch while being instructed by a lecturer.
After the course is finished you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
You will have your project work as part of your portfolio.
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