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@kwfk kwfk released this 11 Mar 22:03
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PR: #6

Amendment 1

Drafted: Emily Zhong

Proposed: 2019.11.20

Proposed by: Executive Team

Ratified: 2019.11.25

Voting

Votes: 44 Total Membership, 27 Yes, 0 No, 1 Abstain

Voting Record

Pretext

Given the design expansion, our teams are composed of more than just developers. Currently, the exec team contains positions to manage different "roles" in Blueprint, but there is no role in leadership that manages the new designer role. If we want designers to continue flourishing, learning, impacting, and being a part of Blueprint, there should be a design-oriented position in leadership.

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Decision Log Entry

The Role

Responsibilities

  1. The Vice President of Design is responsible for fostering design thinking and ensuring design processes within Blueprint's project teams.
  2. The Vice President of Design is the principle advisor and resource of design for project groups.
  3. The Vice President of Design shall, with the advice and consent of the Executive Committee, determine the designer application process by the second week of the semester.

In more tangible actions

tl;dr: Move current UX Design Director responsibilities → VP Design

  • Run design meetings
  • Provide feedback and creating an environment where designers can get feedback from one another
  • Continuously look into how the designer experience can be improved, both in the scope of designer satisfaction and team/project quality
  • Continue to iterate on:
    • design recruitment, to see how we can best evaluate designers in a way that is fair, unbiased, and reflective of the work to be produced
    • design education
      • initial on boarding for designers, how do we ensure that they are continuously learning / are equipped and ready to handle their project?
      • for the rest of blueprint, how do we teach design thinking and the value of it in problem solving (beyond just making things look nice)

Questions

Why not stay on External?

The work done by UX design director is inherently not external facing, but rather internal (towards success of projects and designer development). It doesn't make sense to continue having this position on a team dedicated to spreading Blueprint's mission to the rest of the campus.

Why not have both design directors merge into one, handling both sides?

Two ends of design spectrum — visual design vs product design

Considering external's growth and the work to be done refining and experimenting with this new role in Blueprint, it's infeasible to merge the two growing and now-larger roles back into one

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