Ravi Agrawal, Head of Product & Design at @Upraised, speaks with Kavan Antani, CEO & Co-founder of @IndieFolio on the fundamentals of DesignOps.
Where to find Ravi
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrawalravi95
Medium – https://medium.com/@agrawalravi95
ADP List – https://adplist.org/mentors/ravi-agrawal
Resources
Making the band, Spotify
https://spotify.design/article/making-the-band-building-exceptional-design-teams-at-spotify
Shopify’s Product vs Marketing Illustrations
https://ux.shopify.com/product-vs-marketing-illustration-7ac474dfe2ed
Razorpay’s Design System
https://engineering.razorpay.com/tagged/design-systems
Design at Urban Company
https://design.urbancompany.com/
Smallcase’s Microfrontend
https://design.urbancompany.com/
InVision’s Guide to Design Systems
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/guide-to-design-systems/
Empty States
https://pencilandpaper.io/articles/empty-states/
Upraised’s Career Accelerator Program
https://www.upraised.co/career-accelerator-program
Crew
Moderator – Kavan Antani
Content Strategy and Writing – Rachel Biju
Video editing – Hemanth Kumar
Creative/Content Adviser – Justin Alva
0:00 – Introduction
0:57 – A lot of the information on the internet is dated
1:52 – What is DesignOps?
5:26 – Is DesignOps basically project management?
6:57 – Ravi’s first year at Smallcase
9:46 – Muhammed Salim during bandwidth crunches at Deel
12:02 – Why leaders should make time for designers to design
12:31 – How Smallcase’s design team went from zero to twenty
18:28 – Brennan Hartich’s study
18:57 – Career design for designers
21:00 – Design system at Shopify
27:30 – Design systems at Razorpay, Cult, and Urban Company
31:48 – What is a DesignOops?
34:46 – Summing up
