Merge pull request #104 from labzero/traceykthompson-patch-1-rebased

Adding in Design Team Charter by @traceykthompson

index.md

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 ## Product Design
 
+- [Design Team Charter](product_design/design-charter.md)
 - [Design Principles](product_design/design_principles.md)
-- [Design Review](product_design/design-review-best-practices.md)
+- [Design Review Best Practices](product_design/design-review-best-practices.md)
 - [Giving and Receiving Feedback](product_design/giving-and-receiving-design-feedback.md)
-- [How to Write User Stories](product_design/how_we_write_user_stories.md)
+- [How to Write User Stories](/product_design/how_we_write_user_stories.md)
 - [Accessibility](product_design/accessibility_guide.md)
 
+
 ## Continuous Delivery
 
 - [Development Workflow](continuous_delivery/development_workflow.md)

product_design/design-charter.md

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+# Design Team Charter
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+As product designers, we make this promise to our product & engineering collaborators:
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+#### Be an active partner in clarifying why. 
+Actively engage in making sense of the problem.
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+#### Foster alignment. 
+Use design tools to improve the team's alignment around and understanding of the problem.
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+#### Creatively and purposefully explore solutions. 
+Explore solutions that clearly and creatively respond to shared understanding of the business and customer pain points and desired outcomes.
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+#### Advocate for the user. 
+Be able to frame how designs relate to the user journey and the user's thoughts, actions, and feelings.
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+#### Be mindful of value/effort trade-offs. 
+Recognize that design doesn't exist in a vacuum. Know when and how to focus your effort in service of project priorities.
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+#### Care about the details. 
+Anticipate edge cases and design for them. Develop clear and consistent guidelines to foster efficient iterative delivery.
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+#### Work collaboratively. 
+We value open communication with our teams to answer questions, clarify design thinking, get feedback and design solutions. We aren't designing in a silo.