State of DesignOps 2022

The de-facto industry benchmarking report of DesignOps

An emerging field

Delivering insights into the state of the practice, people, and tools of design operations teams everywhere. This report offers a global view of DesignOps from 444 people in 45 countries.

You’ll learn:

What the average DesignOps team looks like – team sizes, ratios, and more

Three of the top opportunity areas for DesignOps teams to have more impact

The most common DesignOps responsibilities and tool kits

The team

This report was written for the DesignOps community, by the DesignOps community. Here are the people behind this year’s report.

Authors

Angelos Arnis

Author, Research & Analysis

Adam Fry-Pierce

Author, Content

Contributors

Meredith Black

Advisor

Kaysie Garza

Writer

Adrienne Allnutt

Advisor

Salome Mortazavi

Advisor

Cai Charniga

Writer

Rachel Posman

Writer

Jason Kriese

Writer

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Advisor

Heikki Salo

Designer

Harri Kiljander

Design Advisor

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