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How is design structured in your organization?
over 6 years ago from Cody Iddings, Experience Designer for the moving world
Daniel Wearne, over 6 years ago
Almost identical to where I've worked. It was a product team of about 60 people, with practices of engineering, design and product management. Marketing was a seperate problem with a slightly different make up (product and design personnel, but very limited engineering)
Cody Iddings, over 6 years ago
Sweet, thanks for sharing Andrew. Did you have a CTO in addition to the CPO?
Suganth S, over 6 years ago
Similar. We have 1PM+1PD unit working with a Scrum team on a single objective each quarter. Both PD+PM report to the VP of product and all the designers have informal catch up every week
In my org design sits in product (product design). These designers work within engineering teams directly, and have regular sync ups with each other via 1 large standing review period, bi-weekly retrospectives and twice-per-week standups. The process here is well defined and highly collaborative. PM & design work on solutions together (2 designers + 1 PM per unit) and everyone reports to the Chief Product Officer.
Marketing has a separate design team. We realize design should probably be its own sub-org but haven't yet made the investment to switch it to cross-functional.