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name: prepare-a-design-review-agenda
category: design
description: Prepare a design review agenda around explicit decisions, evidence, participants, constraints, and follow-up ownership. Use when a critique or stakeholder review needs to produce more than unstructured opinions.
---

# prepare-a-design-review-agenda

Name the decisions before showing the screens.

## When to use

- Use for concept, flow, accessibility, content, technical, risk, or release reviews.
- Do not invite approval from people who lack decision authority without clarifying their advisory role.

## Procedure

1. Define review type, decision needed, decision owner, deadline, and what is out of scope.
2. Invite only required decision-makers, specialists, affected owners, and a facilitator or note-taker.
3. Share context, user evidence, constraints, artifact links, version, and preread.
4. Allocate time for goal, evidence, walkthrough, silent review, questions, risks, and decision.
5. Write prompts tied to user outcomes and requirements rather than personal taste.
6. Include accessibility, content, privacy, technical, operational, and failure perspectives where relevant.
7. Prepare a decision log with options, rationale, dissent, owner, and follow-up date.

## Done

- A scheduled agenda lists purpose, scope, participants, preread, decisions, prompts, timing, and artifact links
- A prepared decision record can capture evidence, decision, dissent, actions, owners, and deadlines