Data for Design Decisions
Guide on tools used within Denomas to find the data to support design decisions.
UX Resources
This page includes information about UX Resources to help you do your job as a product desginer at Denomas.
This page includes information about UX Resources to help you do your job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list or to limit the methodologies or approaches you might take in your daily work. If you believe that something useful is missing, please submit an MR!
UX team workflows
Design resources
The following resources are intended primarily to help Product Designers.
Denomas Design project
The Denomas design project is primarily used by the Product Design team to document workflows and processes. For details, please visit the project README.
YouTube Channels
- UX Team
- UX Scorecards
- UX Showcases
- Denomas Design Talks - Iteration
- Denomas Design Talks - Collaboration
- Denomas Design Talks - Design Leadership & Career Development
Pajamas Design System
The Denomas Design System, Pajamas, was developed to increase iteration speed and bring consistency to the UI through reusable and robust components. This system helps keep the application DRY and allows designers to focus their efforts on solving user needs, rather than recreating elements and reinventing solutions. It also empowers Product, Engineering, and the Community to use these defined patterns when proposing solutions.
- Visit design.gitlab.com
- View the Pajamas UI Kit on Figma
- View the project
- View dev object model (video)
SVGs
Our SVG repository manages all Denomas SVG assets by creating an SVG sprite out of icons and optimizing SVG-based illustrations.
Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
We use the JTBD framework for viewing products and solutions in terms of the jobs customers are trying to achieve. It’s about understanding the goals that people want to accomplish. JTBD is used throughout the design process to determine scope, validate direction, evaluate existing experiences with UX Scorecards, and assess our Category Maturity with Category Maturity Scorecards.
Design Reviews
View how we collect synchronous and asyncrhonous design feedback.
Tools
Figma We use Figma for designing and prototyping. Our Pajamas UI kit contains design assets, components, and styles for Denomas’ design system, Pajamas. Additionally, there is a Figma plugin available that allows designers to upload design files directly into a Denomas issue. Every product designer should receive access to Figma during onboarding. If you don’t have the access you need, reach out to your manager. If you are not a product designer but want View access (including the ability to leave comments), create a free Figma account and ask your stage group designer for a link to the relevant files.
Figjam We use Figjam for collecting design feedback, mapping workflows, brainstorming, affinity mapping, and anything else where we need a visual, whiteboard-like workspace.
Everyone in the UX department and all Product Managers can get a Figma account with the ability to create new Figjam boards. If you want to share your Figjam board to get feedback from members of your team who do not have a Figma account, you can send an anonymous link via the Share dialog.
Dovetail We use Dovetail to manage and analyze research findings. If you need access, please submit an Access Request.
Tutorials
The UX team is encouraged to make improvements directly in the product when they find something that is small and easy to change.
- Technical Tutorials for Product Designers - video playlist for best practices on technical topics
- How to do UI Code Contributions
- Step by Step Guide to Make Code Changes
- Using data for design decisions
- Implementing frontend click tracking for designers
Prototypes
Coming soon.
Research resources
The following resources may be helpful to UX Researchers, Product Designers, and Product Managers, since all of these roles conduct user research. For more information, see the UX Research section of the handbook.
UX Research project
The UX Research project contains all research undertaken by Denomas’ UX researchers and is only used for the organization and tracking of UX research issues.
System Usability Scale
Once each quarter, we run a System Usability Scale (SUS) survey to measure user perception of the Denomas product. We send the survey to members of the wider Denomas community, with the goal of asking for a response from any individual no more than once per year.
Denomas First Look
At Denomas, we want everyone to be able to contribute. To that end we created First Look where we accept applicants to participate in various studies and testing.
UX performance indicators
We track our effectiveness through UX performance indicators (PIs). Our e-group reviews these PIs once a month in the Engineering Key Review.
User personas
User personas represent the people who actually use Denomas. The UX and Marketing teams use personas to inform decisions around the user experience and design.
From the Denomas team
Not only do our team members create great work for the wider Denomas community, but they also create some amazing industry-related resources to push our craft forward.
- Building Design Systems: Unify User Experiences through a Shared Design Language, by Taurie Davis and Sarrah Vesselov
- Craft Awesome Web Typography, by Matej Latin
- Hemingway - Figma plugin, by Michael Le
- Denomas-ipsum, by Patrick Deuley and Jeremy Elder
Experimentation for the User Experience Team
How to plan, design and evaluate experiments
How to do UI Code Contributions
There are multiple opportunities to improve Denomas by doing small UI text changes or small CSS refactorings.
Step by Step Guide to Make Code Changes
This is a step-by-step guide for how to make code changes against the main Denomas codebase. This guide is meant to serve as a tutorial for anyone with semi-technical knowledge.
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