Undertake a review of insights and feedback shared by users on selected components and patterns

[kellylee-gds]

Brief

To start this brief, #4281 must be completed in order to establish which components and patterns to look at first.

In this brief, a small disciplinary squad will review the community backlog and our repositories, reviewing insights and feedback from users and creating proposal iterations.

The squad should identify iterations which are low risk, and which need further research, with a view to making iterations in the next cycle.

As part of this brief, we should also establish a regular cadence of reviewing all our components and patterns, and create an OKR to help us achieve this.

Epic lead

Kelly

Driving role(s)

Owen, Hazal, Calvin

Needs awareness

Share findings with whole team

Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Review all open issues on govuk-design-system and govuk-frontend repositories and add labels to any issues which are related to Checkboxes, Accordion, Button, Character count or Tabs
2. Priority order for review: Accordion (week 1), Tabs & Checkboxes (week 2), Button & Character count (week 3)
3. Async review of each component, with insights and feedback collated on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vhEOW27a7WYpeaI5XsNt_ys7EIeOxGZXj33h0Erk12I/edit?gid=0#gid=0
4. Whole group discussion of feedback
5. Identify possible iterations, or where we need further evidence to make a decision
6. Share with the team for feedback
7. Document in GitHub as future brief or small story

[kellylee-gds]

Week 1: Accordion

Monday:
Cycle planning & add labels to open issues on repo

Tuesday:
Async review of Accordion backlog & discussion

Wednesday:
Identify iterations & create briefs / small stories

Thursday:
Review by wider team

Friday:
Review feedback from the team & make any changes

[kellylee-gds]

Week 2: Tabs & Checkboxes

Monday:
Async review of Tabs backlog

Tuesday:
Discuss findings on Tabs & identify iterations

Wednesday:
Async review of Checkboxes backlog (non-meeting day)

Thursday:
Team away day

Friday:
Discuss findings on Checkboxes & identify iterations

[kellylee-gds]

Week 2: Button & Character count

Monday:
Async review of Button backlog

Tuesday:
Discuss findings on Button & identify iterations / Async review of Character count backlog

Wednesday:
Discuss findings on Character count & identify iterations

Thursday:
Create briefs and small stories / Show & tell

Friday:
Document process and decide whether it's repeatable