Ways of Working

How might we standardize our workflow processes and harmonize the way to work within a quickly growing team?

Problem

Our team quickly went from 2 designers to 10. Unfortunately, our current ways of working were not scalable. Design files were everywhere and hard to manage, and miscommunication often happened during the handoff process. We needed the team to work closer together and clean up any ambiguity happening.

Solution

A new handoff process for design, development, and business analysts

A robust Figma best practices toolkit

A new version control process for each feature file

A single source of truth for coded features, user flows, and business logic


Responsibilites

Standardized processes to support high-quality design outputs
Connected with multiple roles to identify process pain points
Used Figma as a tool to bring multiple roles together for smoother delivery

Who is AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative medicine and patient care. The application I worked on modernized how scientists research, organize, plan, and execute clinical trials.

Type of project

This is an ongoing DesignOps project defining a fluid handoff process for a growing team over the past 5+ months

The team

Lead designer (me)
Researcher
Senior designer


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