The UX Showcase is a recurring meeting that allows each stage group to walk through various research findings and design solutions. We record the 15-minute presentations, so that stakeholders from Product, UX, Engineering, and Leadership can watch at their convenience. These sessions are available on GitLab Unfiltered.
Purpose
Increase awareness of the value delivered through UX by highlighting business and customer value
Increase visibility into UX research, design opportunities, and solutions
Increase exposure of stage group UX activities to the broader organization
Audience
Stage Group Product Designer/Researcher (Presenter)
Product
Engineering
Relevant Leadership (Director of UX, VP of Eng, CEO, VP of Product)
Schedule
Showcases will happen every fortnight. It's an hour long, which allows four different stage groups to present. Each Product Designer is expected to fill out the agenda (attached to the meeting invite) for that week prior to presenting. Check the schedule to see when your stage group presents next.
Each presentation is 15 minutes. Presenters should come prepared with sufficient artifacts to tell a story. Use your best judgement to determine what will most effectively convey the story: a few slides, a process diagram, a journey map, a series of mockups, a prototype, etc.
Preparation
Preparation time should be minimal, as you'll present the work you've done thus far.
Prior to the showcase, communicate your specific topic in the meeting agenda.
Provide context for the problem you were trying to solve:
The scope of the problem
Why was it important to solve?
What did we learn during research?
Were there any constraints that impacted the solution?
State the desired goals of the work:
What is the desired business and customer outcome?
When, [users' context]. I want to [user's goal]. So I can [users's desired outcome].
What were the constraints?
How did you iterate toward an MVC?
Walk your audience through the solution iterations:
You might prepare a few slides, but this is optional
Be yourself and tell the story of the work you did
Use existing mockups and flows, rather than creating something new
Hosting
UX Managers take turns hosting the UX Showcase.
Recording the presentations
To limit the amount of post-presentation editing, please start and stop (not pause) the recording with each presentation. This will ensure that each presentation saves as an individual clip, which is much faster to edit than a 1-hour clip.
Sharing on GitLab Unfiltered
If you need to edit the videos at all, you can use a video editor like iMovie.
If you cannot find the videos in your Zoom account, reach out to the calendar event owner, as it probably uploaded to their account.
In iMovie, you can upload a video straight to YouTube, as long as it's under 15 minutes long. But you still have to go to YouTube to select the playlist.
You can pick a better thumbnail and edit other settings after uploading by going to the Uploads page and selecting your video
