🟡 Document in the UX Guide and Method cards how DEIA informs our work

[bpdesigns]

Background
The 18F team has evolved our design research practices and deepened our work addressing DEIA. Its time to reflect as a group how we practice now and what standards we want to hold ourselves to as we work to deliver more equitably for the public.

Related issue

• Define research to understand how DEIA informs our work 18F/guides#300

Acceptance criteria (we'll know we're done when...)

• We have documented what, if any, gaps there are between what our UX guide and method cards say we do and our current or emerging practices
• We have new issues on the board to cover work we might need to do to eliminate any gaps
• We've documented how other guides might repeat this process when deciding what content to update

Tasks

• Review research plan from guides #300
• Recruit for and run sessions to capture the pulse of our design research practice now
• Create GH issues to capture the work that needs to be done to make our guidance consistent with our practices and intent
• Document what we did in a repeatable way

Definition of done

• One of the POs has approved the change
• Outreach approval (if needed)

[bpdesigns]

Reviewed in backlog grooming.

Issue looks clear but will need to be broken down into smaller issues so it can be completed within a week

[MelissaBraxton]

@bpdesigns - I think this might be dependent on #584. What do you think?

[bpdesigns]

I agree @MelissaBraxton it's dependent on #584

[bpdesigns]

"Relevant to other Guides" If we can document a repeatable practice for our products to be up to date representations of how we work.

[bpdesigns]

@MelissaBraxton should we archive this? We have a number of tickets to address this - at least from the UX Gudie side

[bpdesigns]

Closing this as exploratory work is not a priority. There are a number of tickets on updates of our practices that address this in the backlog.