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How mature is your design practice?

Fifteen questions about what happened, scored across five dimensions, with the level held one rung above the weakest of them and three moves to make first.

Who is answering

Neither answer is scored. Both travel with the result, so a link opened next quarter still says who filled it in and for what size of company.

Your role Company size

Each one asks what happened. Pick the answer that is true of the company today, and the one below it where the next one is only planned. About four minutes.

Leadership and org

Where are product priorities set, and is design or research involved? How are designers and researchers organized? Is there a career framework for design and research?

Discovery and research

When did someone on the product team last talk to a customer? What happens to research findings? How are assumptions tested before building?

Craft and quality

How is design quality reviewed? How is accessibility handled? How closely does what ships match what was designed?

Design system

What does the design system consist of? What share of product surfaces use it? Who owns it?

Measurement

Which UX metrics are tracked continuously? How are releases evaluated? Can the team state the money value of design work?

Level

Structured

Score65 of 100

The score alone reads Integrated. Discovery and research is the weakest dimension at Emerging, and the level is held one rung above the weakest, so the result reads Structured.

The five dimensions

Leadership and org
78 of 100 Integrated
Discovery and research weakest
33 of 100 Emerging
Craft and quality
67 of 100 Integrated
Design system
89 of 100 Leading
Measurement
56 of 100 Structured

Strongest: Design system, at 89 of 100.

Weakest: Discovery and research, at 33 of 100. This is the dimension the level is waiting on.

Three moves

The three lowest answers, each with the step that reaches the next one on its own scale. Lowest first, because the cheapest ground to make up is the ground nobody has started on.

Discovery and research: answer 2 of 4, reaching 3
When did someone on the product team last talk to a customer?
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Discovery and research: answer 2 of 4, reaching 3
What happens to research findings?
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Discovery and research: answer 2 of 4, reaching 3
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Summary to paste into a ticket

Level: Structured (65/100)
Held one rung above Discovery and research; the score alone reads Integrated
Strongest: Design system 89
Weakest: Discovery and research 33
Leadership and org 78 · Discovery and research 33 · Craft and quality 67 · Design system 89 · Measurement 56
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How mature is your design practice?

The five dimensions

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