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1. Orcasound UX Team Onboarding

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Onboarding Resources

If you are new to the Orcasound UX Team, check out the links below to access onboarding resources.

Admittedly, it would be best to be onboarded by an experienced member of the UX Team. However, since volunteers come and go on a regular basis, it is difficult to keep up with the high volume of volunteers who join the team. Therefore, onboarding is automated as much as possible, and you are responsible for reviewing provided information and taking action to join or form a UX team. Feel free to copy and paste the list and links below into your own to do/project management platform to track your onboarding progress.

Please make sure to take the following steps:

  1. If you haven’t yet, please connect with us on our Slack workspace
  2. Review the “Onboarding Website” using the link below
  3. Review the “Project Teams”, “Department Teams”, and “Leadership Roles” linked below to learn details about the different teams you could join

    a. All listed teams are currently either active or not- please reach out to the team by using the linked Slack channel to learn what the status of the team is

    b. If no one responds to your Slack post, then consider helping to form that team- resources for starting a team are provided below

  4. Once you have joined a team (or more- you can join as many as you have bandwidth for), make sure to provide your email address to the Team Lead so you can be added to the calendar invite for regular team meetings- they are typically scheduled to occur once a week, but some teams have their own cadence for meetings

    a. Tip- send your email address in a DM to the Team Lead- posts in Slack channels are public, and it’s best to safeguard your contact information via a DM that isn’t accessible publicly

  5. Review the “ReOps Program Resources” link below to understand how to take advantage of our UX Research Operations program
  6. Request access to the different platforms and tools we use to do UX listed in the “UX Platforms and Tools” resource linked below
  7. Review the “Orcasound UX Best Practices” link to understand how to hand off your work to the next volunteer as a product moves through the Agile process

Onboarding website

1.a Project Teams

This contains all teams that are dedicated to an Orcasound “product”, meaning that a final design will be sent to production by writing user stories assigned to Orcasound devs.

Projects

1.b Department Teams

This contains different UX departments, meaning that work may directly or indirectly affect design, but user stories will be assigned to other Orcasound UXers rather than devs, or work will directly affect UX work rather than part of the Product workflow.

Departments

1.c Leadership Roles

This contains descriptions of leadership role titles and responsibilities. We’re always in need of leaders, so consider joining a leadership team!

Descriptions

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