🎨 User Experience Gallery
Step into the User Experience Gallery! Let’s curate a masterpiece of seamless journeys: highlight inspiring moments, paint over rough spots, and preserve masterstrokes. Together, we’ll craft a gallery that delights every visitor—our users!
Template Columns
🖌️ New Strokes to Start
Suggest fresh ideas or experiments to enhance our user experience masterpiece.
Base column: Start🧹 Erase Rough Sketches
Identify UX elements or habits that should be removed to clear the canvas for excellence.
Base column: Stop🖼️ Frame the Masterpieces
Showcase and appreciate the UX practices that we should keep exhibiting in our gallery.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The User Experience Gallery retrospective invites teams to review their product's user experience, highlighting successes, identifying areas for improvement, and brainstorming new UX ideas together.
When to use this template
Use this template after a UX-focused sprint, product launch, or when you want to improve and celebrate user experiences. It's especially useful for cross-functional teams looking to refine or innovate their product's interaction.
How to facilitate
Welcome the team and frame the session as a collaborative review of your product’s user experience, focusing on inspiration, improvement, and appreciation.
Briefly explain each column: New Strokes to Start for fresh UX ideas, Erase Rough Sketches for UX habits to stop, and Frame the Masterpieces for standout practices to continue.
Invite everyone to add their reflections to each column, encouraging a balance of creative ideas, constructive criticism, and acknowledgment of success.
Once all notes are submitted, guide the group to cluster similar themes and discuss the most impactful items in each column.
Facilitate a conversation to agree on experiments or actions to test new UX ideas and improvements.
Review and celebrate the best UX practices already in place, discussing what makes them effective and how to maintain them.
Summarize key takeaways and assign clear action items or owners to close the session.
Pro Tips
Prompt the team to think like a user and share actual user feedback or data to ground the discussion in real experiences.
Encourage sketches or screenshots in the discussion to visualize UX points for remote teams.
Balance constructive feedback by highlighting at least as many positives as areas for improvement.
Rotate the facilitation to different team members for each session to keep perspectives fresh.
FAQ
What if the team struggles to come up with new UX ideas?
Start by revisiting recent user feedback, reviews, or usability tests to spark inspiration, and remind teammates to think beyond their usual roles.
How can we ensure action is taken on the issues discussed?
Assign clear owners and timelines for each agreed-upon action, and review progress briefly at the start of your next retrospective.
Is this template suitable for non-UX teams?
Absolutely—any team that impacts user experience can benefit, including developers, designers, support, and product managers.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective