Ravi Agrawal, Head of Product & Design at @Upraised, speaks with Kavan Antani, CEO & Co-founder of @IndieFolio on the fundamentals of DesignOps.

Where to find Ravi
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrawalravi95
Medium - https://medium.com/@agrawalravi95
ADP List - https://adplist.org/mentors/ravi-agrawal

Resources
Making the band, Spotify
https://spotify.design/article/making-the-band-building-exceptional-design-teams-at-spotify

Shopify’s Product vs Marketing Illustrations
https://ux.shopify.com/product-vs-marketing-illustration-7ac474dfe2ed

Razorpay’s Design System
https://engineering.razorpay.com/tagged/design-systems

Design at Urban Company
https://design.urbancompany.com/

Smallcase’s Microfrontend
https://design.urbancompany.com/

InVision's Guide to Design Systems
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/guide-to-design-systems/

Empty States
https://pencilandpaper.io/articles/empty-states/

Upraised’s Career Accelerator Program
https://www.upraised.co/career-accelerator-program

Crew
Moderator - Kavan Antani
Content Strategy and Writing - Rachel Biju
Video editing - Hemanth Kumar
Creative/Content Adviser - Justin Alva

0:00 - Introduction
0:57 - A lot of the information on the internet is dated
1:52 - What is DesignOps?
5:26 - Is DesignOps basically project management?
6:57 - Ravi’s first year at Smallcase
9:46 - Muhammed Salim during bandwidth crunches at Deel
12:02 - Why leaders should make time for designers to design
12:31 - How Smallcase’s design team went from zero to twenty
18:28 - Brennan Hartich’s study
18:57 - Career design for designers
21:00 - Design system at Shopify
27:30 - Design systems at Razorpay, Cult, and Urban Company
31:48 - What is a DesignOops?
34:46 - Summing up