Ben BuchananDesignOps expert

DesignOps for effective design and development teams

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I'm Ben Buchanan, a DesignOps expert, Interface Architect and developer based in Sydney. I help Australian software companies make their processes more efficient by implementing systems that synchronise design and development teams.

For over a decade, some of Australia's major software and media companies such as Ansarada, Atlassian, Bigcommerce and News Digital Media have trusted me to improve the way they design and develop complex digital products.

If you need to create a design system, or improve the way your design and development teams work together, talk to me.

For more than ten years I've been a familiar face organising and speaking at digital industry events across Australia. I've spoken at Web Directions Code and Respond, Atlassian Summit, SydCSS, SydJS and was a regular at Sydney's Web Standards Group.

DesignOps tools, techniques and culture

DesignOps is a relatively new term, but for many years I've helped companies narrow gaps between the people who design interfaces, write code and deploy it. I work with multi-disciplined teams and implement tools, techniques and culture to enable designs and code to be delivered faster.

If you run a relatively large design team, or work in a company that practices agile development, DesignOps can help you deliver design at scale.

What I Do

I help companies maintain design quality without sacrificing speed of delivery.

I enable consistent UI across new and legacy tech stacks.

I lead teams and write code.

I write at the 200ok weblog

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