We needed a way to be more transparent about our design process, for developers, business analysts, business owners, co-designers and anyone who wants to see our work at least once a week. This was an informal session where colleagues get to stand around your work (usually printed out and stuck up on the wall) discuss it, understand it, raise concerns or share ideas.
Your work is just as good as the amount of people you share it with at any given stage of your process. Everyone has ideas, it’s your job as a designer to give someone else the platform to share those ideas. Ideas are not limited to a role.
If you are lucky enough to be working with motivated and engaged team members, you might realise that the design process is a journey you need to take the entire team on, not just the design team. This will add value to your design as well as create a shared understanding of the deliverable before the sprint has even started.
Big things happened when we started doing Sticky sessions:
- Story kick off became incremental. The developer knew exactly how you want a design to look, feel and behave by the time they get to actually writing code.
- Developers took ownership of design because they were part of the design process.
- It only takes 15min a week so no complaining about more meetings.
- It’s a good way to make sure that your work is always on display. Transparency and keeping everyone informed became a culture.
- IT’S FUN!
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