Anna Li Design & Consulting Ltd

10/30/2025

It’s been and while, and we are starting out 3rd years with the rebrand and new services! Stay tuned for more 🤍

03/22/2021

7 reasons why you need a Design Ops manager on your team:

1. Failure to deliver value.
2. Inability to control expenses.
3. You have the wrong people.
4. Failure to connect.
5. Failure to create systems.
6. No employee experience.
7. Lack of effective leadership.

In 2–5 years, we’ll see Design Practice management evolve back to the core essentials and specialization of creative direction, design…

03/17/2021

3 Steps for Getting Started with DesignOps

There are 3 high-level steps that organizations can follow in order to identify where to invest in DesignOps and plan initiatives in a manageable and measurable way:

1. Research the problem space: Identify operational painpoints across the design team and design-team partners.

2. Define DesignOps value: Define the meaning and role of DesignOps specific to the organization’s unique set of painpoints.

3. Prioritize and roadmap: Prioritize goals and plan initial tactical activities within a manageable timeline.

DesignOps efforts should be aligned to observable organizational painpoints. Teams who follow the process of researching painpoints, identifying and defining DesignOps value based on those painpoints, and prioritizing and planning DesignOps initiatives accordingly will build a strong, sustainable practice.

Treat your goal to implement DesignOps like a design problem: Collect evidence that demonstrates where the true design-team challenges lie and align DesignOps efforts accordingly.

03/15/2021

Design Ops focus areas chart by Farid Sabitov perfectly illustrates the variety of design operations manager's responsibilities. It may seem vague for some, but as we dig deep it's a 360-degree strategic view on the product and team-related subjects.

That's why design ops functions are crucial for both product and service-focused businesses.

03/12/2021

While we do both Team Ops and Product Ops it's still fascinating to watch how the industry is changing towards appreciation and differentiation of design management functions. Usually, Design Ops involves both working with a product and a team - and that's quite a stretch for a human :)

The article is reflecting on a matter of differentiating product ops from team ops to give design managers some space for a deeper and broader view on a subject.

By John Calhoun and Rachel Posman

03/05/2020

Розповідаємо як і навіщо засновниця агенції з дизайн-менеджменту провела аудит сайтів 7 організацій.

10/23/2019

«Сей-Хай» не раз поднимал тему системного подхода в креативе. Стас Стояцкий, креативный директор NGN Agency, на своем опыте рассказывал, что в любом деле

08/02/2019

Дуже радіємо нагоді долучитися до Pro Bono Club Ukraine у якості експертів на бути корисними тим, хто цього потребує!

Візьміть участь у конкурсі на отримання консультації pro bono