Design Maturity:
Your Silent Growth Engine
If marketing is the megaphone and ops is the engine room, design is the wiring that lets the whole ship hum in tune. Measure it, tune it, win bigger.
How we make the DMI score “tick”
Seven domains, one 360° view
We score what really moves design-led growth—not vanity metrics.
1
Vision & Strategy
a clear north star that links design to P&L
2
Leadership & Culture
exec air-cover and day-to-day rituals that back it up
3
People & Capability
skills, coaching and career tracks that keep talent sharp
4
Research & Insight
continuous evidence, not once-a-year opinion polls
5
Design Ops
systems, standards and tooling that let good ideas scale
6
Innovation & Systems
appetite (and budget) for rapid prototyping and 10× bets
7
Org Snapshot
quick health-check of budgets and decisiveness
Together they form a closed loop: purpose → people → process → proof. It echoes the multi-pillar logic used in benchmark valuation models , keeping the picture both granular and business-ready.
Turning answers into a single DMI number
Sweet and simple, no room for complexities.
1. Encode Every Response
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2.Sum the 41 statements → raw score 41–205
3.Normalise to a clean 0-100 scale
That’s it. No black-box weighting, no secret coefficients. Same formula for a five-person startup or a Fortune 50, which means you can benchmark apples to apples and track progress year-on-year.
Level Up Your DMI Score
Starter
Design = “make it look nice”
We drop in a dedicated Bang Design squad—researcher, product designer, and visual lead—who overhaul key journeys, stand up a starter component kit, and ship quick wins that prove the value of design to the wider org.
Connector
Siloed teams, ad-hoc research
Our embedded team launches a unified Figma library and insight hub, giving product, engineering, and marketing one source of truth—syncing sprints and slashing hand-off delays.
Architect
Processes exist but stall
Our embedded team launches a unified Figma library and insight hub, giving product, engineering, and marketing one source of truth—syncing sprints and slashing hand-off delays.
Scientist
Data, but no story
We instrument your experiences with analytics, set up A/B infrastructure, and iterate on live data. Continuous design optimizations translate directly into higher NPS, better retention, and clear ROI dashboards for leadership.
Visionary
Ready for lift-off
We instrument your experiences with analytics, set up A/B infrastructure, and iterate on live data. Continuous design optimizations translate directly into higher NPS, better retention, and clear ROI dashboards for leadership.
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