7 OKR examples for Designers
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Designers to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for OKR
Your objectives should be ambitious, but achievable. Your key results should be measurable and time-bound. It can also be helfpul to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Building your own OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives – including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
How to track OKRs
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework.
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKRs-tracking tool for it.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Designers OKRs templates
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results for Designers.
OKRs to achieve product consistency with our design system
Ensure product consistency with our design system.
Close 50% of all design inconsistency tickets- 90% of our products are following the design system guidelines
Establish a process for quickly and accurately identifying violations of design system guidelines- Develop a system of rewards and recognition for those who adhere to design system guidelines
- Create an audit process to track adherence to design system guidelines
- Establish a comprehensive style guide that covers 100% of common components used by products
- Create a comprehensive list of all common components used by products
- Test the style guide against each component
- Develop a unified style guide for each component
- Implement the style guide into all products
OKRs to reduce app loading time by 20%
- Improve app loading time
- Identify key performance bottlenecks
- Conduct app performance analysis
- Implement code optimization techniques
- Test app performance after optimizations
OKRs to establish consistent branding across all company platforms
- Establish consistent branding across all company platforms
- Implement branding guidelines for all marketing materials by 40% within Q1
- Apply branding guidelines to 40% of marketing materials
- Train marketing team on new branding principles
- Develop comprehensive branding guidelines playbook
- Train 100% of designers on standardized branding guidelines by Q1
- Schedule all designers for training sessions
- Monitor and track completion of trainings
- Identify available branding guideline training programs
- Ensure 85% of existing digital content aligns with new branding standards by Q1 end
- Update unaligned content to meet new standards
- Review existing digital content for branding alignment
- Verify alignment level reaches 85%
OKRs to scale development with a design system
- Every team can build interfaces autonomously
- 80% of the teams are using the UI library to build new features
- Release UI kit MVP
- The Design System covers 100% of common UI components
- List required components
- Build library of components
OKRs to reduce the number of UX issues found in production
- Reduce the number of UX issues found in production
- Enroll 100 users to our early-access program
- UX issues represent fewer than 10% of new bug reports
- At least 20 design tests are run every month
OKRs to develop a voice-of-the-customer program
- Put customer feedback at the center of our projects
- Recruit 100 users for our UX lab
- Conduct 5 UX tests per week
- Achieve 70%+ open rate on our customer feedback newsletter
OKRs to streamline graphic design processes
- Develop a self-serve graphic assets library for internal use
- Decrease the number of one-off design tickets by 50%
- Make our entire brand guideline available
- Design a useable Keynote template and share
- Make brand colors accessible on our internal wiki
- Develop 12 templates Marketing can reuse to build targeted ads
- Build a knowledge base and roll out graphics library
- Run 3 workshops with other teams explaining new library and how to work with designers
- Create 2 knowledge base pages per week teaching team members how to work with our team
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to develop creator for third person game creation
- OKRs to use Event Marketing to drive outbound leads
- OKRs to enhance data engineering capabilities to drive software innovation
- OKRs to accelerate response time by 50%
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples