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DesignOps Professional Programme
Design Operations is the discipline of orchestrating people, processes and craft so that design's value scales with the organisation — and designers get to actually design. This programme trains senior designers and leads to build and run that machinery.
Overview
About the programme
Learn to orchestrate people, processes and craft so design scales — team rituals, design systems governance, research ops, capacity planning and design quality metrics. Instruction is delivered through live, instructor-led sessions rather than pre-recorded video, with assessment based on project work and a final portfolio review — not attendance.
Key facts
- Duration: 3 months, live cohort format
- Level: Senior designers & leads
- Fee: ₹95,000 (EMI options; scholarship discounts up to 30% via the Scholarship Test)
- Assessment: Project work + live portfolio jury, verifiable certificate ID
- Schedules: Weekday evening, weekend and blended options
Full stage-by-stage syllabus · instant PDF after a 10-second form
Upcoming batches
Next 4 start dates
A new cohort of this programme starts every 15 days, alternating weekday-evening and weekend schedules — so you're never more than two weeks from beginning.
Dates update automatically · Seats per cohort are capped to keep critique quality high · Reserve via a free demo class or counselling call.
Who should join
Built for
- Senior designers and leads responsible for how the team works
- Aspiring Design Program Managers, UX Producers and ResearchOps specialists
- Heads of design formalising operations before scaling the team
Learning outcomes
By graduation you will
- Diagnose an organisation's real design-operations pain points
- Standardise process, tooling and design system governance
- Set up ResearchOps and capacity planning that stick
- Measure and socialise design's impact — and enable non-designers
Tools covered
Process documentation frameworksDesign system governance modelsResearch repositoriesCapacity & prioritisation toolingDesign quality metrics
Curriculum
What you will learn, stage by stage
Month 1 · Diagnose: People & Process
DesignOps as a discipline — the three-pillar model; team topology, rituals, onboarding and career ladders; process mapping and bottleneck diagnosis. You run a structured operations audit of a real design organisation (usually your own). Deliverable: a prioritised diagnosis of how design actually works there.
Month 2 · Build: Systems & Infrastructure
The DesignOps stack: tooling strategy, design system governance, ResearchOps and research repositories, capacity planning and intake, documentation culture. Deliverable: designed interventions — an operating cadence, a governance model and a tooling plan — for your audited organisation.
Month 3 · Prove: Impact & the Playbook
Design quality metrics and value narratives; enabling non-designers; change management for rolling operations out. Capstone: your complete DesignOps playbook, defended before a jury including a practising DesignOps lead. Deliverable: the playbook — the artifact that interviews as a Design Program Manager credential.
Why this programme
Three reasons learners choose it
The NN/g-popularised discipline
People, process and craft, orchestrated so design scales.
Built for seniors
3+ years' experience assumed; peers, not beginners.
A real playbook
Your capstone is a jury-defended DesignOps roadmap for a real organisation.
In the studio with
Your mentors on this programme
Like the best professional schools, every course names its instructors. These practitioners lead the studios, critiques and juries for this programme.
Full bios and photos updating shortly — verify current roles directly on LinkedIn.
Certification & FAQ
A certificate that means something when someone checks it.
You're assessed on real project work and a final portfolio jury — not attendance. Every graduate receives a certificate with a unique, verifiable ID. Assessment rubrics are public.
What is DesignOps?
Design Operations (DesignOps) is the practice of orchestrating and optimising people, processes and craft so that design's value and impact scale with the organisation — covering how teams work together, how work gets done, and how that work creates measurable impact. The concept was popularised by Nielsen Norman Group's DesignOps research.
Who is this programme for?
Senior designers, design leads, managers and aspiring UX/design program managers — anyone responsible for making a design team work, not just making designs. It is not a beginner course.
Do I need management experience?
No formal title required, but you should have 3+ years in design and real exposure to team workflows. Admission includes a short experience review.
How often do batches start?
Every 15 days, in senior-only cohorts kept deliberately small; the next four dates are listed above.
What roles does this prepare me for?
Design Program Manager, UX Program Manager, Design Producer, ResearchOps Specialist, DesignOps Lead — and it strengthens Head-of-Design candidacy.
What do I leave with?
A jury-defended DesignOps playbook for a real organisation: pain-point diagnosis, a prioritised operations roadmap and a measurement model — plus the verifiable credential.
Can I use my own company as the capstone organisation?
Yes — most participants do, which means the programme fee often pays for itself in operational improvements before graduation.
Does my employer sponsor programmes like this?
Frequently — we issue GST invoices and provide L&D justification material; corporate-sponsored seats are common in this programme.
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