Hello! We're the GitLab CI/CD UX team. We're comprised of three stage groups that support designing and building the GitLab DevOps product: Verify, Package, and Release.
Our design mission is to bring simple, clean ways to make GitLab the tool of choice for deploying where, when, and how users want.
We work to ensure the best user experience for our users of all knowledge levels, allowing them to successfully apply the continuous methods (Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment) to their software with no third-party application or integration needed.
| Our team | Meet all CI/CD UX team members |
| GitLab.com | /ci-cd-ux |
| Slack Channel | #ux_ci-cd |
| Youtube playlist | CI/CD UX Team meetings |
We follow the workflows outlined in the UX section of the handbook. In addition,
A Definition of Done (DoD) serves as a tool for describing and tracking the expected deliverables, objectives, and the approval process. The DoD consists of a list applied by the Product Designer and Product Manager to issues or epics, in order align and track the entry and exit criteria for design work. This list should be flexible, making this process efficient for their ways of working.
Below you can find the CI/CD stage groups that are currently using a UX DoD:
Our strategy is all about making sure that even complex delivery flows become an effortless part of everyone's primary way of working. We work closely with Engineering, Product Management, User Research, Technical Writing, and Product Marketing to make sure we have all the support in uncovering user needs and work to solve them together. Some of our strategic initiatives are:
Learn about our high level UX strategy.
Visit the Ops Product Section Direction to read about the product strategy.
We have business goals we are shooting for all the time. To understand how we can measure success in the CI/CD area, we collect insights from our strategic counterparts: Product Marketing Managers, Analyst Relations, and Customer Success.
Below you can find information about the all designated counterparts we work with:
We meet bi-weekly as a team to discuss our work, processes, talk about User Research activities, share knowledge, and raise questions to each other. We are also using session for team retrospectives, as well as sharing useful resources around design and DevOps domains.
The purpose of Ops Cross-Stage ThinkBIG! meeting is to discuss the vision, product roadmap, user research, and design work related to the Cross-Stage Ops experience at GitLab.
To ensure we continue to grow and sharpen our skills as designers, we are running a pilot where we dedicate one day per milestone to our individual growth. Our first team growth day is 2021-02-25. See the pilot issue.
On our dedicated personal growth day:
