Patrick Whelan
Design Operations Manager
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★★★★★
Design Operations at a 60-designer org means thinking about Figma as infrastructure, not a tool. Seat licensing, library governance, file structure standards, naming conventions, and security controls are my daily concerns. Org-level admin controls have improved substantially over the past two years. SAML SSO and SCIM are table stakes that Figma now handles well. The Branching feature in the Organization plan has changed how we manage design system contributions. My biggest unsolved problem is licensing costs for occasional editors who only need to make small tweaks - the binary editor/viewer split doesn't match the messy reality of how non-designers use the tool. Activity logs help with audit but reporting tools could be richer.
