Certain phrases, when uttered into the void of a Calendar invitation, have very specific meanings to designers.
For example, if you wake a lead designer up before 8am for a Design Review, our expectation is that we’ll be leading a call where the work to date is packaged up and presented to directors, VPs, or even a sponsoring executive. We’re probably up and caffeinating 90min beforehand. It isn’t a phrase that you should use lightly when summoning a creative.
But what should you call a meeting about the design if it isn’t a design review?
Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and others of the ilk: this handy list should help you decide what type of meeting you need to request in order to get the best communication out of a creative team.