Documenting Design Process
This resource works as a 1:1 workshop or team building exercise to understand what are the main activities of a design team throughout the design process. It works great as the next step to the "Designer Journey" workshop, after you have mapped, as a facilitator, all the different activities of people, and solved their pain points.
Design the process that fits to your team
As a DesignOps professional, you need to gain a holistic understanding on how different designers work within teams so that you can build with them a process and activities within that process that showcases and visualizes all the complex and "hidden" parts. Use the Documenting Design Process template to understand your design team better, map a default process, and plan how to communicate clearly what are the different activities of a design team.
The design process documentation template that works for design teams of all sizes and shapes:
Customise the template to your design process
Clarify all the activities that designers perform and when should they
Give an estimation of the effort each activity takes
You can use this template to map a design process per designer team, or for the whole community (or both!).
Align the different projects and teams based on a visualized and descriptive design process
How does it work?
Research the designer's journey within your team's or community's design process
Plan for a 2-3 hour workshop to work with the team (you can build an example prior to that)
Identify the first activity in the first phase of your process
Write a description that clarifies what is that activity and what it does
Estimate how much effort does this activity take
Describe when is the best time to use this specific activity
Feel free to change any part of this template to fit your needs
Visit the result of the work you've done every once in a while (yearly or more often?) to make sure that the whole team is still aligned or discover what should change to make your process better.
Have fun!
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