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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
Weeks 1–2 · What DesignOps Is (and Isn't)
The discipline of orchestrating people, processes and craft so design scales; DesignOps as a role versus a mindset; producers, design program managers and ResearchOps specialists; diagnosing your organisation's real pain points before prescribing anything.
Weeks 3–4 · How Teams Work Together
Team structure and skills-complete staffing; rituals, critique cadences and communities of practice; human-first hiring, onboarding and transparent career pathways for design roles.
Weeks 5–6 · How Work Gets Done · Standardise
Documenting the end-to-end design process from initiation to delivery; aligning design activities; tool audits and shared toolchains that make collaboration efficient.
Weeks 7–8 · How Work Gets Done · Harmonise & Prioritise
Design system governance at organisational scale; research repositories everyone can use; exposing workflow bottlenecks; capacity planning and objective prioritisation of design work.
Weeks 9–10 · How Work Creates Impact
Defining 'good' and 'done'; choosing and tracking design quality metrics; socialising design's value with success stories; enabling non-designers through playbooks and training so the design team stops being the bottleneck.
Weeks 11–12 · Capstone · Your DesignOps Playbook
An internal-research-driven DesignOps roadmap for a real organisation (yours, or a partner's): pain-point diagnosis, a prioritised operations plan and a measurement model — defended before a panel of design leaders.
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.
Placeholder archetypes — publish real, consented mentor profiles before launch.
VP Design
Scale-up · 13 yrs
Specialties: Startup ambiguity
“Wearing five hats well, taught properly.”
Principal Designer
Global SaaS · 12 yrs
Specialties: Design systems, B2B complexity
“Runs the systems capstone audits.”
Design Manager
Mobility startup · 10 yrs
Specialties: Career & interview coaching
“Leads mock-interview training.”
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.
The only way to know if this is right for you is to sit in on a class.
No pressure, no hard sell — a live 45-minute session where you meet a mentor, see how a critique actually works, and ask every question about the curriculum, the batch, and your own starting point.
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