<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all -<br><br></div>To elaborate on this and maybe further answer Emma's question -- designers are embedded with projects (often multiple) vs. a service bureau model. Not all projects have UXers associated; some of that is because the project doesn't have a user-facing piece and some of it is simply resource constraints. In the latter case, we try to get help to prioritized issues on a case by case basis, as often as possible with product managers on the project helping to figure out priority.<br><br></div>UXers are typically not using bugmail as a worklist. We'll often work with a bug on an issue at the beginning of a task and then as place to hand-off something (i.e. an iteration of a design worth building or scoping) -- but bugzilla is not usually where our workflow takes place _during_ our work, so we're just not living in it enough to make it a great notification system.<br><br></div><div>As Dolske and Jared's emails point out -- working through triage to figure out what the high priorities are definitely helps, also because it also gets bugs into the hands of people who know who to talk to on the UX team.<br></div><div><br></div>I understand the appeal of general purpose address or bugzilla flag to send issues that need work -- but it's more a staffing problem than a tooling one; we don't have the person-power to work through a lot of issues that aren't part of the projects we're already working on. If there are systems that address this kind of thing in engineering that we could be using too, I'm definitely game to try.<br><br></div>Worst case scenario - you can always email firefox-ux-team, me, shorlander, or psackl and we can try to direct your call.<br><br></div>Madhava<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Stephen Horlander <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','shorlander@mozilla.com');" target="_blank">shorlander@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is a good question. How are designers situated with teams? Do they work as a service bureau or embedded, or does it depend on the team?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Largely depends on the project/feature. Most designers are generally responsible for more than one thing and every feature "team" seems to have their own workflow; e.g. some are using Github and some Bugzilla…</div><span><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">are designers watching components or keywords to be alerted about design tasks?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>Some are… maybe. I would imagine not many.<div><br></div><div>Your best bet is a Need-Info or ping someone in #ux on IRC.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>- Stephen<br><div><br></div></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Madhava Enros | Director, Firefox User Experience | <a href="http://mozilla.com/Firefox" target="_blank">mozilla.com/firefox</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Madhava Enros | Director, Firefox User Experience | <a href="http://mozilla.com/Firefox" target="_blank">mozilla.com/firefox</a><br></div></div></div></div><br>