Welcome to the Team of 100

Welcome back to our Design at Scale™ — Academy series, focusing on the design practice in a team of one hundred. This series will explore design challenges in teams above 100+ designers. I will touch on transformation and design departments in corporations. We will explain why certain things do not work for design departments and how to overcome such obstacles by understanding one designer’s past, present and future.

Disclaimer
The stories in between techniques are deliberately stripped of all client names and specific departmental structures to prevent the reputational damage of design professionals who share their stories in great detail. Equally, as this topic overlaps several disciplines, such as Project/Product Management, Business, and Engineering, we will solely focus on Design Function. For further debates, feel free to comment or reach out directly at @designatscaletm.

This series includes the following articles:

• Business Structure
• Evaluation Matrix
• Department Function
• Agile organisation
• Reactive vs Proactive
• Broadcasting vs Protecting
• Transparency
• Everyone is Designer
• Make it Scale