Waitroom is a game-changer for remote teams! As a fully remote team, we leverage Waitroom to present designs and receive instant feedback from engineering and business teams. Say goodbye to the dreaded design-by-committee and hello to efficient, early and constant feedback - a critical ingredient in crafting exceptional user experiences. With Waitroom, you'll have the confidence to present your work to your team and managers with ease.

How does using Waitroom help run inclusive and effective remote design reviews?

<aside> 🤩 Waitroom ultimately ensures design reviews are successful by encouraging brevity, promoting fairness and ****allowing everyone an equal opportunity to speak.

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A design review is an exciting opportunity to showcase the hard work design teams put into their designs, as well as ensure it meets all the requirements, is user-friendly and visually appealing. Review meetings are there to identify any challenges and allow the team to make crucial decisions to perfect the design before it enters the development phase. This is how Waitroom makes design reviews better:

  1. Manage different perspectives: By allowing only two people to communicate at a time, it helps to keep the conversation focused and prevent it from getting bogged down by too many different perspectives at once.
  2. Encourage brevity: Using a timer helps ensure that meetings stay on schedule and that each team member has an equal opportunity to speak.
  3. Communication issues: Waitroom’s queue system helps to ensure that everyone has a chance to speak and that the conversation flows smoothly. Additionally, the ability to only have two people speaking at a time could prevent from having multiple people speaking at the same time, which could cause confusion and lack of understanding.
  4. Managing remote meeting: Waitroom helps keep remote meetings organized and on track by managing the flow of the conversation and giving everyone an equal opportunity to speak.
  5. Encourage participation - promote fairness: The queue feature on Waitroom encourages everyone to participate and speak their mind, rather than just a few people dominating the conversation.
  6. Take notes: Waitroom sessions are recorded, automatically transcribed and summarised using GPT-3. This allows presenters to focus on the conversation and not get distracted by taking notes.

Setup your first Design Review

Step-by-step process of setting up a design review on Waitroom with recommended settings.

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  1. From the Waitroom homepage, click “Dashboard” and then “Schedule a meeting”.
  2. Give the meeting a title.
  3. Set the guest time limit of 2:30 per participant with meeting time of 1 hour.
  4. Set the date and time.
  5. Connect your Slack to receive meeting updates and summaries.