design-priorities

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps product designers and UX practitioners manage design backlogs, prioritize work based on various frameworks, and align design efforts with product roadmaps and team capacity.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Frameworks: Utilizes Now/Next/Later, Product Area/Theme, and Type of Work for backlog organization.
• Prioritization Approaches: Employs Impact vs. Effort, Roadmap Alignment, and Design Debt Severity for decision-making.
• Dependency & Capacity Management: Surfaces dependencies and highlights tradeoffs based on finite design capacity.
• Communication Guidance: Provides tailored advice for communicating priorities to Product, Engineering, and Leadership.
• Use Case: When faced with a long list of design requests, use this skill to categorize them using Now/Next/Later and then prioritize them based on their impact versus the effort required.

Quick Start

Use the design-priorities skill to organize the current design backlog using the Now/Next/Later framework.