Design OKR Examples
Below you will find Design OKR examples from real companies that can help you formulate your own Design OKRs.
Why your Design team should use OKRs
The OKR (Objectives & Key Results) framework is a dynamic goal-setting system that boosts transparency, alignment, and focus. Companies like LinkedIn, Netflix, Samsung, and Daimler use OKRs to prioritize crucial tasks and unify their teams around shared goals.
This framework isn't just for large companies; it's also beneficial for individual teams, such as Design teams.
Design teams often suffer from the "everybody knows" fallacy, assuming everyone has the same understanding of project goals and issues. This can lead to conflicting views and misaligned efforts. OKRs help by setting clear Key Results to measure progress toward Objectives, ensuring all team members are aligned and working toward the same goals.
Additionally, when Design work is handed off between team members, a lack of proper documentation and communication can cause inefficiencies. Regular check-ins and progress reviews, inherent to the OKR process, foster accountability and help prevent miscommunications and inefficient handoffs.
To reap the full benefits of OKRs, make sure to follow certain rules.
Writing good Design OKRs
“How to write good Design OKRs?” – the million-dollar question.
Coming up with good Design OKRs can be quite a challenge. While the OKR method itself is easy to understand, it is the writing part that is the hardest and also the most critical to master.
To get the creative juices flowing, think about this formula when writing your Design OKRs:
We will [Objective] as measured by [Key Results].
Keep in mind that Objectives answer the question “What do I want to achieve?” while Key Results answer the question “How do I know that the goal is achieved?”. Objectives should therefore be qualitative, easy to understand, and inspiring. Key Results should be clearly measurable, outcome-driven (not output-driven), and S.M.A.R.T. Both, Objectives and Key Results, need to be time-bound and are typically set per quarter, i.e. for one “OKR cycle”.
Design OKRs: Examples and best practices
When our customers get started with Mooncamp, they often ask us “What are good OKR examples for Design?”, so we compiled a list of real Design OKR examples just for you.
💡 Note: We recommend writing your own OKRs and only use the Design OKR examples below for inspiration.
How Mooncamp can help your Design team with OKRs
By using a purpose-built OKR software like Mooncamp, you can bring your Design team’s OKR strategy to the next level. To name just some benefits of a dedicated OKR software:
- Transparency and alignment through visualization of goals across your Design team or the entire organization
- Collaborate better, give feedback for OKRs, and praise your co-workers all in one place
- It’s more fun to use than a Spreadsheet or clunky tools like Confluence and will lead to a higher adoption of your teams
- Regularly nudge your team members to update their OKRs to make the method stick
- Uncover insights in your OKR progress or OKR process with reports and dashboards
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