Lessons from Prometheus's First Design Mentorship
summary
A developer-first project runs a 3-month UX research mentorship through LFX, using survey + interviews, weekly syncs and a public schedule, guided by the GitLab UX handbook. Research finds clear documentation gaps and a need for exploratory telemetry (Prometheus assumes users already know what to query). Work produces a public report, a GitHub repo and blog post, spawns a UX working group and two follow-up mentorships (prototype meters and docs), and reaches PromCon and KubeCon.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 7:44Challenges of first UX mentorship
- 10:33Research process and planning
- 14:31Key findings from UX research
- 18:47Impact and community growth
- 19:07Lessons learned from the mentorship
- 21:54Key takeaways for maintainers and designers
- 25:25Call to action and conclusion
- 26:14Q&A session
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