Encourage design reviews

Design reviews are crucial meetings where designers showcase their solutions to stakeholders like design leads, project managers, and engineers. This collaboration invites questions and feedback to creatively align and ensure the design meets product and business objectives. Designs are evaluated on user needs satisfaction, brand alignment, and business goal fulfillment.

Effective design reviews can be weekly, either with your manager/team or across all design teams for wider insights.

Here are some tips for running them:

• Control the environment: Use tools like Miro, Figma, Slack, or Asana to centralize feedback, avoiding the hassle of collating comments from various sources.
• Prepare: As a leader and typically the facilitator, be ready with your discussion points and questions.
• Provide context: Beginning with the meeting's goal, discuss the problem addressed, share relevant user data, and specify the type of feedback you're seeking.
• Present clearly: Detail your design principles, process, and approach when showcasing designs.
• Ask the right questions: Focus on specific queries that encourage constructive feedback, such as:

• What is memorable about this design?
• Is there anything confusing about this design?
• What problem does this design solve?