Short course | Beginner friendly | Live online | Lecturer-led | Practical
Design Operations
Design Operations is the discipline of scaling design within organisations: building the systems, processes and culture that let design teams work at their best. This hands-on 2-week course introduces 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 as important as the work itself. That is where Design Operations comes in. In this course you will learn what DesignOps is, why it matters and how it creates measurable impact in organisations of any size. You will explore the key pillars of DesignOps, including team structure, onboarding, tooling, design system governance, process documentation and measurement frameworks. In Week 2 you will apply these concepts to practical scenarios, building the skills to assess and improve design operations in a real organisational context. You will 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 will 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 Thursdays 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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Learn Design Operations live, with your lecturer
Small live classes, a lecturer who works in the industry and project work for your portfolio. Pick your date and book your seat.
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