Power up your people.

Service Overview: Break Down Barriers, Build Up Skills

We've all heard that people are our greatest asset, yet many organizations struggle to unlock their full potential. At DesignMap, we collaborate with business, design, and product leaders to break down silos, upskill teams, and elevate their approach to design. From personalized mentorship to comprehensive organizational redesign, we help develop and align teams to do their best work together.

DesignMap provided ideas that helped me orient to what kind of hire I wanted and what aspirations I had for what they might accomplish. They helped find and vet candidates and provided a sounding-board. They had a material impact on the quality of hire we made.

—Dennis Kirlin, SVP & Chief Applications Officer

From day one, user experience was core to our strategy. DesignMap made us 10x more successful than even our most optimistic projections.

—Kumar Ramachandran, CEO of Cloudgenix, acquired by Palo Alto Networks

This was impressively organized. Content, people, organization, food, schedule, all of it felt well-considered and well-oiled. Nothing but back slaps and appreciation from me.

—Workshop Participant, Team Lead

Offerings

Engage, elevate, empower

Fractional Design / Staff Aug

Need an interim design leader to mentor your team and provide regular guidance? Or senior UX, research, or visual design talent to bolster your team’s impact? DesignMap's skilled designers can embed seamlessly on your team to ensure every product release is leveraging the strategic advantage of design. Let us fill the gaps with experienced, collaborative talent.

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Strategic Designer Training Program

We've hired, trained, and mentored many designers to become expert leaders and collaborators. Our flexible training program distills the key elements that differentiate designers who simply execute from those who actively shape a more purposeful product strategy.

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Workshops / Facilitation

Our guided workshops can span an afternoon, day, or week(s). We can work with your designers or facilitate cross-discipline collaboration—from the C-Suite to product management, and engineering. Our aim is to empower your entire organization to view complex business challenges through a design lens.

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Organization Design

The structure and makeup of your team, systems, and processes are the foundation for your success. We evaluate existing company structures and design more complementary and collaborative ways to harness the power of your people and programs.

Thought Partnerships

Each of our partners have more than two decades of experience and can help senior designer leaders learn how to best collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage stakeholders, and build strategic design teams. Elevate your design strategy and grow a great internal design team along the way.

Need help hiring?

Hiring new design talent is a big investment, so it’s important to get it right. We can help you determine the most important design roles to bring onboard, consider compensation, write job descriptions, and interview candidates so you find the right fit for your team.

FREE DOWNLOAD Design Roles Starter Templates 9 templates to help you attract the right design talent for the right roles.

BYOW: Ask about "building your own workshop"

Our bespoke workshops can span an afternoon, day, or week(s). We can work with your designers to upskill on topics like Effective Communication with Stakeholders or lead cross-functional workshops on topics like Product Prioritization.

David Brown
Head of Business Development

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Project spotlight

Docker

Building a Design-led Culture to Manage Rapid Growth

Amid rapid growth, Docker faced a familiar challenge: rethinking their team structure to scale effectively. They partnered with DesignMap to deeply integrate design into their organization and product development processes. Collaborating with a design advocate within Docker, we reshaped team workflows, making design central to their future success. Through workshops and months of hands-on integration, we established a design-led culture that ensured consistency across products and scalable, user-focused solutions.

The result? A strategically-organized team that successfully launched Docker Hub—the world’s largest resource library for application development—which saw a 5000% increase in account registrations on its first day.

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