DesignOps Ed: A Salon Series

This series, hosted live throughout 2022, empowers design organizations and their leaders to drive their teams towards professional success, career growth and practice excellence. The recordings aim to create a better understanding of the popular but ambiguous area of DesignOps leadership; lead people-centered and design-inspired organizations towards design excellence; and make leadership more accessible and attainable to every audience. Join today and get access to the 12+ hours of learning for DesignOps leaders.

What these recordings cover

Create a better understanding of the popular but ambiguous area of leadership
Lead people-centered and design-inspired organizations towards design quality and performance excellence, regardless of their size
Make leadership more accessible and attainable to every audience
Show you how DesignOps is not just for large product companies, but rather it benefits all sizes and shapes of design orgs and provides a very fulfilling leadership pathway for those whose interest lies in the success and future of their teams, rather than what they produce or create

These sessions feature conversations with intelligent, approachable, and generous leaders and mentors who want you to be successful and have insights to help you do so.

Pricing

These recordings are free to all AIGA members in the AIGA Community "Design Management" space.

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These recordings are for you

Those just starting out in this young discipline who want to know how to make and report on impact, how to advocate for their initiatives, and to be encouraged by others in the same position
Those with years of experience in design (and design-adjacent) operations and management who want to share their knowledge
Those interested in breaking into design operations who want more clarity about what it is and what it does
Those with a vested interest in the success of their design teams and employees
Design-adjacent disciplines such as project management, people / talent management, who all have the same goal: to support and empower their teams

Free Access to DesignOps Ed

Looking for a deal? Enrollees in the following AIGA Certificate Programs are automatically enrolled in this live meeting series for FREE:

DesignOps Certificate

This certificate provides you with the essential courses needed to nurture and manage your creative teams and ensure projects are run smoothly and effectively.

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Leadership, Management, and DesignOps Certificate

This DesignOps certificate blends leadership development courses with the essential courses needed to nurture and manage your creative teams and ensure projects are run smoothly and effectively.

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DesignOps Master Certificate

Learn how to lead people-centered and design-inspired organizations towards design quality and performance excellence with our comprehensive certificate.

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Frances Yllana

Since 2001, Frances Yllana has been building and evolving her skills as a designer, team member, teacher, advisor and champion in order to best lead, manage and grow the team members she serves. She has a wide range of experience from branding, advertising, copywriting, strategy, video, illustration, digital and environmental, to experience design, design operations and consulting for enterprise software to non-profit management, visioning, strategy and coaching. At the beginning of 2022, Frances joins Coforma as their first Design Operations Manager, after 3.5 years at projekt202 as Experience Director and DesignOps lead. Coforma works with the government and private sector to craft creative digital solutions and build technology products that improve people’s lives, using a modern, agile, user-centered approach that elevates human needs through thoughtfully-designed systems and products. Frances is active in AIGA, currently serving as a director on the AIGA National Board, and she is also highly active in promoting civic and community engagement year-round, locally and nationally, including serving as Chair for AIGA Design for Democracy.