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Summary

  • Announces the new UX Research Working Group established after PromCon 2025
  • Explains what the group does and how contributors can collaborate with them
  • Links to Slack (#prometheus-ux-wg), GitHub (prometheus-community/ux-research), and meeting details

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  • Content reviewed for accuracy
  • Author name in frontmatter is correct
  • Links are live

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Announces the new Working Group, explains what it does, how to
collaborate, and where to find the team (Slack, GitHub, meetings).

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Cursor helped with the PR process. The content is original and not AI-generated :)

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Thanks for working on this @amy-super 👌. It looks good overall. I just left a few comments.


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## How we can help
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This section speaks to maintainers. I think we should make that explicit since the blog has a wider audience than just maintainers, so it’s clear who this part is addressing.

- Prioritized lists of user pain points
- Suggestions for community discussions or decision-making topics

## How to work with us
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I think the WG could potentially work with a broader group of people, not just maintainers who need UX work done for them. For example, users who may want to participate in research or open an issue about a UX problem they’re experiencing, and contributors who might want to get involved with the WG itself and learn how to participate.

Should we address this in this section, or would it make more sense to have a separate “How to Contribute/Participate” section for users and contributors?


## Where to find us

- **Meetings:** We meet biweekly, currently Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC (subject to change depending on contributor availability).
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- **Meetings:** We meet biweekly, currently Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC (subject to change depending on contributor availability).
- **Meetings:** We meet biweekly, currently on [Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=prometheus.io_bdf9qgm081nrd0fe32g3olsld0%40group.calendar.google.com) (subject to change depending on contributor availability).

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Looking great already! Just one nitpick: I'm missing a section or paragraph on how Designers/Researchers could join the community and help us out. And why joining the community could be benefitial to their career

- Clarify "How we can help" is aimed at Prometheus maintainers
- Add section for end users to participate in research studies
- Add section for new contributors wanting to join the WG
- Move contact details into "Where to find us" section
- Add calendar link to meeting entry (nwanduka suggestion)

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- Clarify "How we can help" is aimed at Prometheus maintainers
- Add section for end users to participate in research studies
- Add section for new contributors wanting to join the WG
- Move contact details into "Where to find us" section
- Add calendar link to meeting entry (nwanduka suggestion)

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@amy-super amy-super force-pushed the blog/ux-research-working-group branch from 9afb115 to de8c575 Compare March 6, 2026 21:14
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I made some updates (restructured a bit) to address your feedback @ArthurSens and @nwanduka. LMK what you think now.


## How we can help Prometheus end users

We want to hear from you! Let us know if you're interested in participating in a research study and we'll contact you when we're working on one that's a good fit. Having an issue with the Prometheus user experience? We can help you open an issue and direct it to the appropriate community members.

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Should we create a issue template to help them report ux problems?

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Good idea

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LGTM 🚀👌

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We can work on the issue template in the UX repository

I believe we just need the DCO CI to be happy and then we can merge

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