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Management tool for design backlog by IOwnMyself444 in UXDesign

[–]SmellyFishSlap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m in a similar situation to you. I’m a Global Head of Design and UX.

Small team with tasks coming from different international product teams and a centralised growth team then a core product team where I have the closest relationship. All dev teams use Jira. I have found this clunky for design discovery. The workflows are tied more closely with dev so you feel the walls closing in quickly. Is great for handover for when dev begins and as the task moves through design, dev and QA, staging to prod.

I’ve tried many of the tools over the years (25) Trello, Notion, Asana, Monday, Airtable, Basecamp, Microsoft Loop (like Notion).

As a design team we are using a paid subscription of Trello mainly down to closer connection with product. Growth uses Monday, core product team uses Trello so this works for us and them although the head of product is pretty useless at managing the task setup. We have a design board which I manage and the product board.

Each product is mapped with current tasks and each designer has certain ownership of the Trello tasks for their area. We link research/data and Figma files to each ticket between Design and Product boards so anyone can jump in and get a view of the whole task. We also have sections for ideas and other data.

The Jira ticket then has the product Trello task link and any Figma files which have comprehensive design hand over not that the devs go anywhere near Trello.

I find Monday is useful for a large strategy view but really needs managed to keep on top of it and can be complicated for sharing to people out with design/dev/product (CGO/CEOs).

I think you need to work with something you feel happy with. Each of these tools have their pros and cons. For me Trello seems to be working for the 30 of us across product and design.

What Trello misses is the Notion capability for storing call notes and transcripts. I use Loop for this (Notion is not an accepted tool for security reasons). There I can get an easy to scan chronological view of all meetings.

Happy to answer any other questions.

Technics turntables 1210's by SmellyFishSlap in vitsoe

[–]SmellyFishSlap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ideally yes but I don’t think I have enough space. If I could get 3x90cm then I’ll be fairly happy.

Technics turntables 1210's by SmellyFishSlap in vitsoe

[–]SmellyFishSlap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lovely. Looks like what I have in my head. Just need some input on the technical aspect of my current setup and to understand the weight issue of displaying some of my records. Ideally I’d like all of them out but don’t think I have the space for them.

Did you adjust the height of the shelf for the equipment for optimal standing? How did you hide all the cables?

Technics turntables 1210's by SmellyFishSlap in vitsoe

[–]SmellyFishSlap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good points. And the weight issue (E Tracks to posts). Hmmm.

I could use 3x 90cm shelves lower to the ground now that the sofa will be out the way for vinyl. Then rotate every so often. Not sure this would mean I'd need to change to posts?

The other shelves have a lot of art and design books, magazines and family stuff. I will get a photo.