Does your org run design critiques with your internal team for feedback and collaboration? If so, what is the structure/format of the meeting and do you find them beneficial?
Yes we do. The process is very simple: You get a task to design a solution. Documment it as much as possible with as many details as possible in a shared document system (like a wiki page). We use a standard format for every solution design with standard sections (requirements, architecture diagram, security, load, api definition, costs, QA, etc). We then send that doc over to the team and schedule a review meeting a week from then. During the week the team can leave comments in the doc and the authir can either address them there or do it during the meeting. In the meeting the author goes over the solution and takes questions/feedback. Any changes are incorporated into the doc that day. Then the team approvess the design or waits till the feedback has been addressed to sign on it. I find it beneficial. Specially since by the time the meeting is happening we all have read the design document and are ready to give/receive feedback.
That’s a very nice process. Very inclusive and ensures that all stakeholders agree to the design. I have one question though, where do you accommodate user research here and if u do how does that presented to the stakeholders?
Op is apparently talking about UX design. Not engineering design. Yes I run critiques in my team. Every other week 3 people volunteer for 20 min each. First describe the user problem, what kind of feedback are they looking for. Then go in details on different solutions, pro, cons.
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