Leveraging design thinking for work processes enhancement

08/30/21 • 33 min

As our design team started to grow and scale, the need for enhanced processes and workflows to support our day to day jobs and the way we collaborate began to emerge.

In todays episode we discuss with Anita and Eark, two of our Senior Product Designers, how they discovered and realized that need, and how they have used their design skills to help improve the way we work together.

By identifying some of the pain points and roadblocks that our design teams and individual designers are facing, they've developed frameworks and workflows to help mitigate some of these issues to ensure we provide a consistent and optimized users experience for our customers and partners.

As our design team started to grow and scale, the need for enhanced processes and workflows to support our day to day jobs and the way we collaborate began to emerge.

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Transcript

Eark 00:00

We try to provide some guidelines to the fighters so that they can be more well informed about things that are going on within the team and guide them about like what what is the right thing that designer should do before during and after the working process basically.

Anita 00:15

So with this standardized design process, this not only help designer follow the same workflow, and then improve work efficiency, but also provide bette