Summary: Improving Design Reviews at Google is vital for the software development lifecycle, where stakeholders evaluate designs early on to prevent mistakes and ensure viability. By proposing a structured, automated solution, Google aims to decrease the time-to-approval by 25%, leading to improved development velocity. The solution, including a Google Docs add-on, Chrome notifications, and a team review tracker, streamlines the design review process, addressing shortcomings and enhancing efficiency. Through statistics and user feedback, the document highlights the success and adoption of the proposed solution, emphasizing the benefits of structured and automated design reviews at Google.
Based on data collected on 141,652 approved documents authored by 41,030 users over four years, we show that our proposed solution decreases median time-to-approval by 25%, and provides further gains when used consistently. (View Highlight)
g3doc widget to automatically populate and display a list of all design documents authored by a team’s members with their status, (View Highlight)
Authors and approvers prefer and adopt a struc- tured, automated design review process when available (View Highlight)
Using an automated design review process that is well integrated into developer workflows meaningfully improves design review velocity. (View Highlight)
