Designing strategically

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain the importance of aligning to the strategy of an organisation
• describe how your design work aligns to the wider goals and vision of your team
• explain the value of using patterns and components when designing content and services

2. Working

You can:

• align your design work to both the goals and vision of your team and the strategic objectives of your organisation
• identify potential risks and use design to mitigate them
• identify opportunities and use design to take advantage of them
• contribute to the development of design patterns and components

3. Practitioner

You can:

• develop a strategy defining the purpose, impact and stages of your work to design content or services, aligning it with wider goals
• use risks, opportunities and constraints in technology, systems and policy to shape your design work
• identify and create new design patterns and components

4. Expert

You can:

• work with leaders to ensure that design is part of developing organisational strategy, and involved early enough in policy, technology and delivery processes to inform effective decision making
• enable use of patterns and components across the organisation
• help teams align their work to the goals and vision of their organisation

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Closest ESCO skills

• design management (close match)
• apply systemic design thinking (narrow match)

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