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DesignOps is the practice of planning, defining, and managing a design practice within an organization.

Benefits of DesignOps

• Central library components/design tokens for development
• Central design system for rapid prototyping
• Standardized tools and processes
• Team is centralized and can adapt to organizational design needs
• Managing and prioritizing requests

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Design System

PEAK UI is the shared design system of components used by all Ascent products.

• An Angular Material Design foundation
• Coded components live in Storybook
• Design version of components live in Figma
• Component design incorporates corporate branding with usability lead design decisions

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Centralized Tools

• Figma – Design system/shared components, wireframing/prototyping
• Storybook – shared UI component library “PEAK UI”
• Microsoft Teams – Communication tool
• Fullstory – Analytics/user experience tool
• Notion – Location of Product Design SOP

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Communication

• One Centralized Team – Communication with business and work requests come through team leadership 
• Microsoft Teams – Multiple channels to organize communications
• Daily Communication – Design team discuss work for the day and any impediments, brainstorm, feedback
• Weekly Design Jams – Team work together on providing feedback and brainstorm ideas on individual designs

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Lean UX

• Integrate – into agile dev team structure
• Collaborate – with stakeholders and dev in design process
• Quick – put flat mockups in front of team for feedback sooner
• Test – prototypes with users along the process
• Iterate – changes can be made more quickly before they go to development