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Why the Scaling Design Teams Course is Useful
- Helps design leaders succeed in complex, multi-layered enterprise organizations
- Provides practical frameworks for implementing DesignOps and operational governance
- Supports scaling design systems consistently across distributed teams
- Improves cross-functional communication with product, engineering, marketing, and leadership
- Strengthens executive communication and business alignment skills
- Enables leaders to clearly articulate and measure the value of design
- Supports consistent quality, efficiency, and accountability across large design teams
- Prepares participants for senior design leadership roles in enterprise environments
There are currently no evening classes scheduled for this course.
Please call 800-851-9237 or 781-376-6044 to schedule a course
Scaling Design Teams Course Outline
- Design Leadership in the Enterprise
- The role of design leadership in large organizations
- Differences between agency, in-house, and enterprise design teams
- Design maturity models and where teams typically sit within them
- The evolving role of the art director or creative director in enterprise environments
- Enterprise Design Leadership & Governance
- Leading design teams within complex organizational structures
- Balancing creativity with governance, compliance, and risk management
- Decision-making frameworks for enterprise design leaders
- Managing up, across, and down the organization
- DesignOps and Operational Governance
- DesignOps fundamentals and what it enables in enterprise environments
- Operational governance: standards, rituals, decision rights, and escalation paths
- Intake models, prioritization, and capacity planning
- Workflow standardization without limiting creative quality
- Tooling, templates, documentation, and repeatable practices
- Scaling Design Systems Across Teams
- Design systems as a product: ownership, contribution models, and governance
- Adoption strategies across distributed teams
- Standardizing components, patterns, and brand guidelines at scale
- Managing change, versioning, and documentation
- Collaboration with engineering on design system implementation
- Building and Scaling Enterprise Design Teams
- Structuring design teams for scale (centralized, embedded, hybrid models)
- Defining roles, responsibilities, and career paths
- Hiring, onboarding, and developing designers in enterprise settings
- Coaching, performance management, and succession planning
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication
- Working effectively with product, engineering, marketing, legal, and operations
- Cross-functional communication: speaking to non-design stakeholders and aligning with other departments
- Facilitating alignment between business strategy and design execution
- Navigating competing priorities and resource constraints
- Business Alignment and Executive Influence
- Business alignment: connecting design to business goals and organizational strategy
- Executive communication and value articulation
- Presenting design work to leadership teams and decision-makers
- Advocating for design using outcomes, risks, and trade-offs
- Design Operations and Workflow Management
- Standardizing workflows without limiting creativity
- Managing reviews, approvals, and handoffs at scale
- Ensuring consistency, quality, and efficiency across teams
- Operational best practices for maintainable creative delivery
- Measuring Design Impact
- Defining and tracking design success metrics
- Connecting design work to KPIs, OKRs, and business results
- Using qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions
- Demonstrating ROI and strategic value of design
- Change Management and Organizational Influence
- Leading design through organizational change
- Influencing culture and design adoption across the enterprise
- Building alliances and champions for design
- Managing resistance and driving long-term transformation
- Managing at Scale: Practical Steps
- Creating a enterprise design leadership action plan
- Identifying opportunities to improve design effectiveness within your organization
- Frameworks to support enterprise design
Graphic Design course instructors
AGI instructors are Graphic Design professionals and skilled teachers. You'll learn from a live Graphic Design professional that brings years of experience that will help you learn Graphic Design quickly and easily.
Jennifer S.
MS, Human Factors Information Design
BA, Commercial Art
UXQB Certfied
Adjunct Professor, Boston University
Grace
MS, Information Design
BA, Digital Communications
Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf
Greg
BA, Advertising Design
Adobe Certified Instructor
Author, multiple Adobe Creative Cloud books
Custom and private Graphic Design classes
This Graphic Design course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. Graphic Design classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
We recommend that you have the the relevant software before starting this class.
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the Adobe Certified Instructors at AGI. AGI instructors have created many of the official training guides and books for Adobe Systems.