Experience
Design Toolkit
Fostering a strong design practice among a creative community of in-house designers
A design repository
After over a decade and a half of designing high quality deliverables for numerous design projects, I have used several design methodologies and artefacts repeatedly, to covey my design process, research findings and concepts to both clients and sales teams for pitching new work. Moreover, I have used these artefacts and processes to guide new design hires and juniors designers on the team to demonstrate a baseline of design standards that they can model their own project works after.
In order to empower designers at scale within my organization (Deloitte Canada) I decided to put together a plan of optimizing these processes by recruiting a team of 2 more designers who could volunteer time to help me create a central repository of all the design tools we have at our disposal when curating pitches, preparing client presentations or leaders with the organization selling design work. This vision was successfully brought to life in the fall of 2021 and I couldn't be more proud of my team to help me operationalize our go-to UX activities across teams and amplify design’s value and impact 10 fold.
We housed the design repository within a Figma design file containing informational slides and links to important UX Artifacts, and related past examples of work from our creative team. These slides were designed to be easily drawn upon when in need presenting a quick knowledge-sharing session with clients as well as in-house team members. Following are select examples of methodologies and artefacts that were elaborated upon and linked.
An Extensive Toolkit
Strategic Design Guidelines
Cross-functional Collaboration Guidelines
Imagine, Deliver, Run
Ultimately, I encouraged my design colleagues to pick and choose these methods as they saw fit within their projects within a design framework. To help them understand at what stage of a project they could use these tools and methodologies, we mapped them to specific design stages coined as Imagine, Run and Deliver. Design projects won’t always follow all of the steps and methods housed in the library. That would depend on the type of project, budget, scope and associated delivery timelines. The feedback I received for spearheading this initiative was overwhelmingly positive and till date, I find this resource immensely useful for my own professional work reference as well.
Canadian Olypmic Committee
IGA
