## Summary A time-boxed team event where Product Designers audit the first-time user experience in their respective product areas to identify banner cleanup opportunities. This builds on Phase 1 learnings and distributes the banner cleanup effort across the design team. ## Problem GitLab has 753+ banner (banners, alerts, and broadcast messages) instances across the product. Phase 1 focused on onboarding and registration flows. Phase 2 expands the cleanup to first-time feature usage across all product areas, leveraging the entire design team's expertise in their domains. ## Goals 1. Audit first-time user experience across all major product areas 2. Identify banners, alerts, and broadcast messages that confuse or overwhelm users trying a feature for the first time 3. Provide recommendations for 50-100 banner, alert, broadcast message improvements 4. Create team engagement and ownership of banner, alert, broadcast message quality 5. Establish pattern for ongoing banner, alert, broadcast message quality maintenance ## Scope ### In Scope **Each designer reviews first-time usage of their product area:** * What banners, alerts, broadcast messages appear when user first encounters this feature? * Which are helpful vs. confusing vs. unnecessary? * Are there stacking issues? * Recommendations for improvement **Product Areas to Cover:** * Code/Repository (files, commits, branches) - Merge Requests/Code Review * CI/CD (pipelines, runners, jobs) * Issues & Planning (boards, milestones, iterations) * Security & Compliance (scanning, policies, vulnerabilities) * Package & Container Registry * Wiki & Documentation * Deploy (environments, feature flags, releases) * Monitor/Analytics * Settings & Configuration * Admin Area ### Out of Scope * Deep/expert user workflows (focus on first-time experience only) * Comprehensive audit of every page (focus on entry points) * Design System component changes (to the design system) ## Success Metrics **Participation** * Designers participating: Target 100% of product design team * Product areas covered: All major areas reviewed **Output** * Banners, alerts, broadcast messages reviewed: Target 200-300 * MRs submitted by designers: Target 20+ * Recommendations for engineering: Target 30-60 **Quality** * Clear documentation (issues created) * Screenshots provided * Priorities assigned * Actionable next steps