Design use cases at Loom

Hey, y'all. My name is Stewart. I'm the senior director of brand, uh, here at loom. Um, couple of ways that I, and our team, uh, on brand design use loom everyday.

Um, really like, first of all, we're a team of five, um, designers, um, Australia, just myself and a producer. And if I was span, uh, three different teams zones.

So, um, what we do a lot is just like daily stand-ups. Um, we will often do do those synchronously, um, but a lot of teams, we would just choose to do a sync and we will thread, uh, arrow stand up, give a quick update two minutes, um, every day in a Slack thread, what we're working on, any blockers, any challenges, any questions that we have, um, just quick updates as to like what we're working on.

Um, and then we'll go off and get on with the work. Um, so that was one thing. The other thing, um, the big use case for us in design is, um, getting feedback, getting feedback on designs asynchronously.

Um, we have a Slack channel called team design isn't Crip and designers will post, uh, looms in here asking for specific, uh, feedback on the projects that they're working on.

Um, and then we will thread the responses, um, either in the comments of the loom, uh, or in the slides.

Right. Um, and we will also reply with looms of our own, um, so that we, people can get feedback. Uh, the one really quickly is really lightweight.

It keeps the project moving. They don't necessarily feel the need. Um, they don't necessarily have to decide between weight and for our larger, uh, synchronous weekly design crit session.

And, um, trying to phase team on somebody's calendar, um, to ask equation or doing like these one off tasks, like this is a live channel it's it's in use all day, every day.

Um, and we know that when something gets dropped in there, we can easily come in and check it. And then we can also react with the moody comments to see how many people have responded to it.

Is that going to give me, uh, what we need? Uh, we have a color coding system, um, that, uh, indicates the, um, like how quickly we need that feedback.

So that's like a really, really big one, um, for us in design. Um, and then the other one is just like, honestly, sending each other, like quick fun, little updates through the day, um, stuff that we've seen.

Um, you know, there's no better way to like demo, um, a really cool like website, uh, design that we've seen than just going into the browser record on a loom, showing the experience, talking over that, explaining like what we've seen, what we liked, um, is this something that we can take inspiration from?

Uh, and then we pass that on and that's able to be, you know, um, one of the great things about Lumas is, is that that can be spread as far away as you want it with no loss of signal.

Um, so that link can be pasted anywhere pieces in Slack piece that an email sent in a text message, whatever.

Um, so that's, that's also, uh, the big one for ads. Um, so like on a day-to-day basis, those are kind of like the big, um, The big things that we use Lim for see you later.