Tasks that will grow me as a Staff Designer

Tasks that help me grow in Design

Tasks that help me grow in Design Ops or org planning

Tasks that help me grow in Engineering / Development

Tasks that help me grow in promoting or being representative of an organization

Tasks that help me grow in Product Management

Tasks that help me grow in Research

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Tasks that are related to stage or group work

Tasks that are strategic

Tasks that are tactical

Tasks that are important to the UX org

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Mostly small UI changes leading to small incremental UX improvements. No users’ workflow involved in these changes. Requirements are clear and there are no unanswered questions. For example: A copy experiment or changing a button styling.

Highly significant changes impacting multiple user flows, a large new feature, and/or a complete redesign. This issue could significantly impact product strategy and would require critical input from others (the wider GitLab community, e-group, customers), and there are many unknowns. This necessitates research where the designer could team up with a researcher and other designers to gather input data, plan and conduct exploratory interviews, lead user testing sessions… It's unlikely we would commit to complete this issue in a milestone, and the preference would be to further clarify requirements and/or break it into smaller issues planned in several milestones. For example: An improved free trial sign-up experience for GitLab.com SaaS users.

Simple UI or UX change where we understand all of the requirements but may need to find solutions to known questions/problems. These changes should blend in with an actual user workflow. For example: Simplify Sign in / Register process the in trial flow.

A well-understood change but the scope of work is bigger. Several pages are involved and/or we're starting to design/redesign small flows or connect existing flows between each other. Designers may conduct extensive background research (previous issues, support tickets, review past user research, review analytics, etc). Some unknown questions may arise during the work. For example: Update the CustomersDot checkout page to allow subscription and billing information input, Experiment with adding a contact sales option in app.

A complex change where input from group members is needed as early as possible. Spans across multiple pages, and we're working on medium-sized flows that potentially connect with another area of the product There are significant open questions that need to be answered. The product designer may need to do some research on their own or in collaboration with a researcher, but this isn't always the case. Possible research activities might be to find and/or validate a Job To Be Done, conduct user testing or card-sorting, or do a survey. For example: UX Scorecard, How can we improve the dismiss action in upgrade moments.

Highly significant changes impacting multiple user flows, a large new feature, and/or a complete redesign. This issue could significantly impact product strategy and would require critical input from others (the wider GitLab community, e-group, customers), and there are many unknowns. This necessitates research where the designer could team up with a researcher and other designers to gather input data, plan and conduct exploratory interviews, lead user testing sessions… It's unlikely we would commit to complete this issue in a milestone, and the preference would be to further clarify requirements and/or break it into smaller issues planned in several milestones. For example: An improved free trial sign-up experience for GitLab.com SaaS users.

Denotes a disruption to IT services and the associated issues require immediate attention