My Roles // Demystifier, Graphic Creator
Sometimes, one finds herself in a position where she wants a back button in her application but there is a big, mystical engineering problem preventing it from happening. She doesn't understand. Leadership doesn't understand. Everyone wants the feature but no one wants the 6-month timeline associated with it. What's a design lead* to do?
Thankfully, one of my engineering lead counterparts had an idea for how to address the issue and a reservoir of patience with which to explain it to me and draw up a plan. Knowing that other non-technical folks would have an equally difficult time understanding, I created this graphic to explain it in non-technical terms.
This became a base from which to have prioritization and strategy conversations across disciplines and leadership levels.
*she is me