🎨🖥️ Frontend Masterpiece
Welcome to the digital design studio! Let's paint our way through the frontend experience: start bold innovations, stop unwanted bugs, and continue crafting pixel-perfect experiences for our users.
Template Columns
🖌️ Begin the Brushstrokes
Suggest new frontend techniques, tools, or practices we should start implementing.
Base column: Start🚫 Wipe Away the Bugs
Highlight workflows, patterns, or habits that hinder our frontend work and should be stopped.
Base column: Stop🎯 Perfect the Palette
Share what's working and should be continued to keep our frontend looking sharp and user-friendly.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Frontend Masterpiece retrospective helps teams reflect on their frontend development practices by identifying bold new ideas, eliminating unhelpful habits, and continuing what works for building stunning user interfaces.
When to use this template
Use this retrospective after frontend releases, high-impact UI projects, or any time the team wants to sharpen their frontend craft and innovation.
How to facilitate
Set the stage by reminding everyone that this is a creative, collaborative session focused on frontend excellence.
Explain each column and encourage the team to think about innovations to start, habits or bugs to stop, and best practices to continue.
Give everyone time to independently add their thoughts to each column, drawing from recent sprints, user feedback, and personal experiences.
Allow the team to review and group similar ideas together to identify common themes for discussion.
Facilitate a conversation around the most impactful or frequent topics in each column, ensuring all voices are heard.
Collaboratively select action items or experiments for the team to start, stop, and continue based on the discussion.
Review and agree on responsible owners and next steps, then wrap up with a quick team reflection on the session.
Pro Tips
Prompt for tangible examples, such as specific UI challenges, bugs, or workflow changes, to deepen the discussion.
Encourage designers and developers to cross-share perspectives for more holistic insights.
Use screenshots or screen sharing to illustrate great designs or problematic areas for richer context.
Timebox each section so discussion stays focused and energetic.
Regularly revisit past action items to celebrate progress and reinforce continuous improvement.
FAQ
What if the team suggests too many new ideas to start?
Prioritize based on user value, feasibility, and alignment with team goals. Encourage small experiments instead of trying everything at once.
How do we keep the conversation from becoming too technical for some teammates?
Remind everyone to explain technical points in simple terms and invite questions, so all roles feel comfortable contributing.
What if we keep seeing the same bugs or issues appear in every retrospective?
Treat recurring issues as high-priority action items and consider more rigorous root cause analysis or process improvements.
At a glance
- Duration
40–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Use this template to run your next retrospective