{"id":13209,"date":"2021-01-14T18:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:03:23","slug":"designops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/frontend\/design-ux\/designops\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over DevOps! Time for DesignOps and UX Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-table-of-contents uagb-toc__align-left uagb-toc__columns-1  uagb-block-0f63b7fd      \"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-scroll= \"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-offset= \"30\"\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"uagb-toc__wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"uagb-toc__title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTable Of Contents\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"uagb-toc__list-wrap \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ol class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#ux-engineer-in-response-to-the-challenge-of-the-balance-between-design-and-development\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">UX engineer in response to the challenge of the balance between design and development<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#enter-designops-and-the-ux-engineer-designops\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Enter DesignOps and the UX engineer (DesignOps)<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#design-systems-plus-design-automation\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Design systems plus design automation<\/a><ul class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#how-do-designops-work\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">How do DesignOps work?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#working-off-proof-of-concepts\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Working off proof of concepts<\/a><\/ul><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty written about the role of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/video\/machine-learning-engineers-can-learn-from-devops\/\" class=\"ek-link\"><span id=\"urn:local-annotation-276674\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/devops\">DevOps<\/span><\/a> in increasing cohesion within an organisation, speeding up innovation, reducing errors and increasing profitability. <strong>But what if these principles were applied to <span id=\"urn:enhancement-a951915a\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_experience_design\">UX<\/span>?<\/strong> At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/articles\/stories\/behind-the-scenes-of-codemotion-2019s-opening-live-coding-performance\/\" class=\"ek-link\"><span id=\"urn:local-annotation-963027\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/codemotion\">Codemotion<\/span> Rome in 2019<\/a>, we heard a fascinating presentation by people from design company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketchin.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Sketchin<\/a>,&nbsp; Federico Rivera, <span id=\"urn:enhancement-6bd8475d\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/design\">Design<\/span> Director, and Matteo Petrani, <span id=\"urn:enhancement-fdf80452\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/technology\">Technology<\/span> Director, who shared how they were able to overcome operational inefficiencies through the implementation of <strong>DesignOps principles<\/strong>, employing a <strong>UX <span id=\"urn:enhancement-71162606\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/engineer\">Engineer<\/span><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[jwp-video n=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sketchin has over 100 <span id=\"urn:enhancement-a18333b2\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/designer\">designers<\/span> spread over 14 teams. They&#8217;re dedicated to a strong <strong>Agile practice<\/strong>, both within their <span id=\"urn:enhancement-7d3afeac\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/software_developer\">developer<\/span> team and large <span id=\"urn:enhancement-f6fdc11a\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/project\">project<\/span> transformation. Over the years, as Federico shared, &#8220;our belief is that any <span id=\"urn:enhancement-4f862bf8\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/technology\">technology<\/span>, any product that we push embodies the value of the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-baa94672\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/designer\">designer<\/span> that designed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ux-engineer-in-response-to-the-challenge-of-the-balance-between-design-and-development\">UX engineer in response to the challenge of the balance between design and development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/dev-hub\/designer-cxo\/the-eternal-struggle-between-designers-and-developers\/\" class=\"ek-link\">The working relationship between developers and designers is not always smooth<\/a>. As Federico explains, &#8220;We try to work with <span id=\"urn:enhancement-93856a5a\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/software_developer\">developers<\/span> but if we have too much ego inside of the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-778d56d4\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/design\">design<\/span> or too much presence at <span id=\"urn:enhancement-34b8fe0c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/design\">design<\/span>, development doesn&#8217;t go in the right way. At the same time, if there is too much engineering power to determine what kind of feature we need to develop first or in which way, the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-c59e6b49\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_experience\">UX<\/span> experiences suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"ux design and development\" class=\"wp-image-10087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1-896x504.jpg 896w, https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Senza-titolo-1-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Any <span id=\"urn:enhancement-26f6535c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/software_development\">software development<\/span> practice agile practice is fully focused on having a problem and finding and developing a solution in response, with the focus on end delivery&nbsp; However the design focus is also for, as Federico discusses, &#8220;What is the vision? What&#8217;re the right things to do? What&#8217;s the right problem to solve first?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-enter-designops-and-the-ux-engineer-designops\">Enter DesignOps and the UX engineer (DesignOps)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of the <strong><span id=\"urn:enhancement-8edd414e\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_experience\">UX<\/span> engineer (UXE)<\/strong> was coined by <span id=\"urn:enhancement-2798f128\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/google\">Google<\/span>, and it means to have one person who is both <span id=\"urn:enhancement-5a6ebf74\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/designer\">designer<\/span> and <span id=\"urn:enhancement-c78c22eb\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/software_developer\">developer<\/span>. They are fully in charge to support the delivery team to build the solution with the best <span id=\"urn:enhancement-1f5d73f8\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_experience\">user experience<\/span> as possible,&#8221; explains Federico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UX engineer has two faces &#8211; to both see the code side of a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-8bcf1b5c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/project\">project<\/span> and&nbsp;see the design phase of a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-d47281c5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/project\">project<\/span>. &#8220;And what&#8217;s important here is that<strong> it&#8217;s not a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-9db628bd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/designer\">designer<\/span> who can code and neither a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-89b70fbc\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/software_developer_2\">coder<\/span> that knows how to design something<\/strong>. But it&#8217;s more someone that grew up in the middle of these two areas, trying to cause something trying to design something else. And what&#8217;s important here is not the hard <span id=\"urn:enhancement-a1845382\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/skill\">skills<\/span>. But the sensibility that these folks can bring to the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Federico elaborates, &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to find <strong>people that can judge design decision as well as coding and development decisions<\/strong>, people then can bring the values of the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-73c5490\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_computing\">user<\/span> as well as the feasibility of a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-23f5e1be\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/project\">project<\/span> at the same table throughout the design process or the whole end to end creation of some products or services.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/passportloverblog.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/screenshot-2020-07-16-at-16.12.58.jpeg\" alt=\"designops\" class=\"wp-image-13565\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sketchin applied this approach during a range of <span id=\"urn:enhancement-bb61768d\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/project\">projects<\/span> &#8211;&nbsp; <span id=\"urn:enhancement-380e6310\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/application_software\">applications<\/span>, single page, <span id=\"urn:enhancement-1f5e1036\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/application_software\">applications<\/span>, mobile <span id=\"urn:enhancement-23ef1898\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/application_software\">applications<\/span>, services products of any kind. &#8220;And what we see here is that it works. It brings a lot of value and <span id=\"urn:enhancement-35d0dea0\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/client_computing\">clients<\/span> start to work recognise this value.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-design-systems-plus-design-automation\">Design systems plus design automation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Federico, something like a design system is perfect for a big company that has many touchpoints to handle to make, for example, distributed design teams to work together, as well as <span id=\"urn:enhancement-388044b6\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/distributed_development\">distributed development<\/span> teams to work together and be coherent in the whole experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-do-designops-work\">How do DesignOps work?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pair up with designers<\/strong> in order to find those patterns and modules that build up your design and try to normalise them as much as possible. &#8220;A UXE can really help a designer to narrow down the UI elements to those essential and to build only those that are useful they are going to be merged in a single design library.&#8221;<br><\/li><li>In design operations, the aim is to get the right tools systems and practices in place to allow successful delivery at scale:<br>&#8220;<strong>Design operation<\/strong> is one of the core activities for us, inside the agile project are involved in Agile scale we have a team of 14 designers designing a whole suite of a software company. Our mission is to create currents, but we need to stay also inside the design development sprint for delivery. The UX engineer is inside the sprint of the development. The UXE is&nbsp; in touch with the design team and also to make 50% of the design choices that are not even been made by design team.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-working-off-proof-of-concepts\">Working off proof of concepts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/us-designers-developers.jpg\" alt=\"designops: bringing together designers and developers\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Federico asserts that <span id=\"urn:enhancement-af04ca33\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/proof_of_concept\">proof of concept<\/span> is &#8220;not just something built maybe natively in some code language. It provides information also on what are the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-ed1c3648\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/cost\">costs<\/span> are running some <span id=\"urn:enhancement-da89681e\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/application_software\">application<\/span>? What are the benefits in the long term?&#8221; Therefore a real <span id=\"urn:enhancement-80f45849\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/proof_of_concept\">proof of concept<\/span> is &#8220;not just high fidelity design that are largely an artefact in order to represent some experience, some very nice and neat <span id=\"urn:enhancement-240aa9d1\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/interaction\">interaction<\/span>. But it&#8217;s something more something that can bring to a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-1fccda6e\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/customer\">customer<\/span>, to a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-8c59739d\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/client_computing\">client<\/span>, <strong>the whole picture without investing the big money<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federico shares, &#8220;So let&#8217;s say you want to test a specific feature of something or an extension of a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-8d7c1f4c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/server_computing\">service<\/span> you already have. You do a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-c7c7eb4d\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/proof_of_concept\">proof of concept<\/span> before an MVP, for example. In this way, you&#8217;re going to test and highlight everything that is required to run that feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So right now everyone is asking for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/dev-hub\/machine-learning-dev\/interview-paolo-molinara-facebook-messenger-what-are-the-chatbots-and-what-can-they-offer\/\" class=\"ek-link\">chatbot<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/articles\/developer-business\/developers-customer-service\/\" class=\"ek-link\">customer support<\/a>, for example, and okay, we can do a chat, but we can run some kind of artificial intelligence engine behind it. But what happens when I handle the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-2d471ce3\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_computing\">user<\/span> requests? Is there a <span id=\"urn:enhancement-790a69a\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/chatterbot\">chatbot<\/span> or a real <span id=\"urn:enhancement-7deb0e19\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/customer\">customer<\/span> service answering <span id=\"urn:enhancement-8ebc3827\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/customer\">customer<\/span> service questions 24\/7how much does it <span id=\"urn:enhancement-4b49a012\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/cost\">cost<\/span>? Okay, so <span id=\"urn:enhancement-7185d7fe\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/proof_of_concept\">proof of concept<\/span> is yes the widget that you put on your website for the chat, but it has to do highlight what functionality is expected behind the scenes in that single feature.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In such instances, the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-6a75b62b\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_experience\">UX<\/span> engineer is in charge of the overall POC, and part of this is &#8220;We bring the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-f0f92513\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/technology\">technology<\/span>, we experiment behind the scenes and we can <strong>send feedback to both the design and development teams<\/strong>. So I can say to the development <span id=\"urn:enhancement-d9c8f5fd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/team\">team<\/span>, hey, I tried to integrate this kind of <span id=\"urn:enhancement-2b8396da\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/technology\">technology<\/span>, I learned X,&nbsp; or to design <span id=\"urn:enhancement-77f8e730\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/team\">team<\/span>, I see how the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-285a78aa\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/user_computing\">user<\/span> interacting is interacting with this <span id=\"urn:enhancement-622b9fdd\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01770\/entity\/technology\">technology<\/span>. 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