Measure and follow up on your design capability efforts
We often get questions about how to follow up or measure your design capability efforts. Here are some Objectives & Key Results (OKR) that we often use based on three areas, efficiency, quality or satisfaction.
Efficiency
Lead time of delivery
Cycle time
Designers vs developers
Number of designers per product/business area
Monthly active work on specific product
Time to deliver an activity
% time spent on design
Number of design training sessions in the organization
Roles documented
Onboarding time (when a designer feels he/she is up and running)
Quality
Number of one-and-ones coaching sessions
Number of design feedback sessions
Number of design bugs
Documented processes, methods and tools
Internal and external events
How often C-levels speak or mention design work internally or externally
Satisfaction
Satisfaction rate/trend in designer group
Satisfaction rate clients/organization/PO/PM
Designers turn over rate
Customer/user satisfaction rate/trend
Which OKR do you use to measure success?