Design Spec Reviews (async)
- Matt Birtch
Sharing work in the Spec Reviews Channel is a great way to gather feedback asynchronously from relevant team members while also giving visibility to the broader organization and open-source community. It also gives insight into our design process and the new features the team is working on.
What to share in Spec Reviews Channel
Work in progress that is 70% complete or more. If you’re looking for feedback on work that is in an earlier conceptual state, It’s best to keep earlier drafts for the immediate team working on the project or the internal design team.
What not to share in Spec Reviews
Sensitive information or client data. Remember this is a public channel open to the broader community. Ensure designs do not include client names or other sensitive details.
Early, rough draft concepts. This type of work is usually best shared in other venues with more internal teams.
Long-term vision design work. There are other venues that are more appropriate for this type of work.
Sample template for sharing design work for review
### Mobile v2: Channel Files view
**Summary:** In the webapp, we have a way to view files posted in a channel. However, the mobile app does not currently have any way to do this. Users expect to see parity between webapp and mobile with features like this, so we need to add this to the channel experience on mobile. The proposed solution is to:
- Add a ‘Files’ option to the channel info modal
- Tapping this new ‘Files’ option would take users to a child view of the channel info that shows files in the channel.
- Leverage the patterns used currently in the global search view with files
- Show files by recency (most recent files posted in the channel)
- Infinitely load more files on scroll
**Looking For feedback on:** This is a first design draft. Looking to get input on the overall flow, layout and any glaring issues with the proposed design. More detailed review will be needed in a follow-up post.
**Reviewers:**
- PM: @eric.sethna
- UX: @matthew.birtch
- ENG: @elias
- Docs: @carrie.warner
- QA: @lindy.isherwood
**Feedback due by:** End of day Friday, March 17th.
**Links:**
- [Figma design](https://www.figma.com/file/DXzDfy4Wp4Cc8k2bEuoUsA/MM-44655-Channel-Files-View?node-id=0%3A1)
- [Figma prototype](https://www.figma.com/proto/DXzDfy4Wp4Cc8k2bEuoUsA/MM-44655-Channel-Files-View?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=3%3A20398&scaling=min-zoom&starting-point-node-id=3%3A20398)
- [Confluence UX Documentation](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MSU/pages/1565294650/Channel+Header+Updates)
- [Jira ticket](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-44655)