Research visual design needs for Marigold

18F / marigold

An experimental set of reusable components and patterns for making websites and applications at 18F/TTS.

http://federalist.18f.gov.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/site/18F/marigold/

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Research visual design needs for Marigold #30

Closed juliaelman closed 7 years ago

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

After talking with a few folks it is clear that we need to do some research around what our visual design folks need from Marigold. Adding this issue to start kicking this off with creating a research plan with an interview template for discovery work to happen.

[x] Create overarching plan of how to approach the research
[x] Create interview template
[x] Do interviews!
[x] Synthesize the research
[x] Create actionable items
[x] 💥

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

Referencing https://github.com/18F/marigold/issues/14

During a critique session @vz3 made the following recommendation in the issue referenced above. Adding here to include it as part of this research work.

msecret commented 7 years ago

Some ideas for research plan:

Keep it open in what visual designs generally need from design systems, not just Marigold? I want to keep the research open enough that Marigold might not actually be the solution as teams might benefit more from individual style guides.
Do designers want to prototype in code or in design software? How would they do so either way?
Where does branch come into play in design process? Is it useful to work with unbranded components at some point?

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

Initial research plan started here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/111lPnFRyvAX_wk2XZzB2Z6dASp-OZT_zJAg_mPdUfEY/edit#

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

I want to keep the research open enough that Marigold might not actually be the solution as teams might benefit more from individual style guides.

@msecret I could not agree more! I am super glad we are doing this research to figure out what is needed and build something that is beneficial for ourselves and our colleagues 🇺🇸

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

Asked team to review plan by EOD today and leave feedback. Looking at scheduling interviews over the coming two weeks.

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

Invites have been sent to all perspective interviewees and interviews are getting scheduled for the weeks of 1/9 and 1/16.

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

Interviews are now completed and located here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_NVRFrsefnvUU54Umhrc3VkRlU

Synthesis is scheduled for Monday, January 30th. We will be doing an affinity diagramming exercise to evaluate patterns and overarching themes.

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

@msecret removing you as assignee for now, but let me know if you are still interested in helping out!

juliaelman commented 7 years ago

This work is now completed.

Synthesis document is located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lYXu35oivvZjEgXwxXjeTdxAhFtaLli7Ulr5sR6nrJ8/edit