Building Visual Effects Tooling: Cross-Team Dashboard & Best-Practices Compendium
Cross-Functional Program Leadership
Support Scalability & Self-Serve Operations
Tooling
Product Features
Influence Without Authority
Product Use Cases
Cross-Team
Internal Documentation
Project Managment
User Documentation
Diagram of Visual Effects Dashboard, Compendium, and Public Docs Pipeline
The Challenge
Visual effects development was inconsistent and lacked organization across updates, making bugs and new features hard to track. Creators lacked guidance for best practices.
Goal & Objectives
- Facilitate internal knowledge sharing to benefit public users
- Standardize visual effect sub-parameter development
- Shift update and bug tracking to cross version for clearer picture
My Role & Approach
Designed Notion structure, facilitated cross-team input, curated compendium.
Key Deliverables
- Internal dashboard for art team and third party dev collaboration
- Built-in internal compendium of best uses for production team
- Public facing documentation improvements
Results & Impact
- Built Notion dashboard + creative use compendium standardizing visual effects workflows across art, dev, and level design
- Improved bug/change tracking and best-practice flow to creators, raising consistency and quality
- Reduced internal misalignment and accelerated development cycles
- Indirectly enhanced support efficiency through better creator outcomes
Key Learnings
Tooling that bridges internal and external knowledge scales impact.
Tools & Technologies
Notion, Slack, testing environments
Collaboration Highlights
Art team, developers, level designers
Visual effects dashboard for maintenance and use case tracking
Sample use case pages with sub-database (filtered view) for attribute details, templatized
Added categories to public visual effects documentation and key use data
Building Visual Effects Tooling: Cross-Team Dashboard & Best-Practices Compendium
Cross-Functional Program Leadership
Support Scalability & Self-Serve Operations
Tooling
Product Features
Influence Without Authority
Product Use Cases
Cross-Team
Internal Documentation
Project Managment
User Documentation
Diagram of Visual Effects Dashboard, Compendium, and Public Docs Pipeline
The Challenge
Visual effects development was inconsistent and lacked organization across updates, making bugs and new features hard to track. Creators lacked guidance for best practices.
Goal & Objectives
- Facilitate internal knowledge sharing to benefit public users
- Standardize visual effect sub-parameter development
- Shift update and bug tracking to cross version for clearer picture
My Role & Approach
Designed Notion structure, facilitated cross-team input, curated compendium.
Key Deliverables
- Internal dashboard for art team and third party dev collaboration
- Built-in internal compendium of best uses for production team
- Public facing documentation improvements
Results & Impact
- Built Notion dashboard + creative use compendium standardizing visual effects workflows across art, dev, and level design
- Improved bug/change tracking and best-practice flow to creators, raising consistency and quality
- Reduced internal misalignment and accelerated development cycles
- Indirectly enhanced support efficiency through better creator outcomes
Key Learnings
Tooling that bridges internal and external knowledge scales impact.
Tools & Technologies
Notion, Slack, testing environments
Collaboration Highlights
Art team, developers, level designers
Visual effects dashboard for maintenance and use case tracking
Sample use case pages with sub-database (filtered view) for attribute details, templatized
Added categories to public visual effects documentation and key use data
Building Visual Effects Tooling: Cross-Team Dashboard & Best-Practices Compendium
Cross-Functional Program Leadership
Support Scalability & Self-Serve Operations
Tooling
Product Features
Influence Without Authority
Product Use Cases
Cross-Team
Internal Documentation
Project Managment
User Documentation
Key Learnings
Tooling that bridges internal and external knowledge scales impact.
Tools & Technologies
Notion, Slack, testing environments
Collaboration Highlights
Art team, developers, level designers
Visual effects dashboard for maintenance and use case tracking
Sample use case pages with sub-database (filtered view) for attribute details, templatized
Added categories to public visual effects documentation and key use data
Diagram of Visual Effects Dashboard, Compendium, and Public Docs Pipeline
The Challenge
Visual effects development was inconsistent and lacked organization across updates, making bugs and new features hard to track. Creators lacked guidance for best practices.
Goal & Objectives
- Facilitate internal knowledge sharing to benefit public users
- Standardize visual effect sub-parameter development
- Shift update and bug tracking to cross version for clearer picture
My Role & Approach
Designed Notion structure, facilitated cross-team input, curated compendium.
Key Deliverables
- Internal dashboard for art team and third party dev collaboration
- Built-in internal compendium of best uses for production team
- Public facing documentation improvements
Results & Impact
- Built Notion dashboard + creative use compendium standardizing visual effects workflows across art, dev, and level design
- Improved bug/change tracking and best-practice flow to creators, raising consistency and quality
- Reduced internal misalignment and accelerated development cycles
- Indirectly enhanced support efficiency through better creator outcomes
Becky Lattof
Operations Program Manager
Systems & Enablement
Building Visual Effects Tooling: Cross-Team Dashboard & Best-Practices Compendium
Cross-Functional Program Leadership
Support Scalability & Self-Serve Operations
Tooling
Product Features
Influence Without Authority
Product Use Cases
Cross-Team
Internal Documentation
Project Managment
User Documentation
Key Learnings
Tooling that bridges internal and external knowledge scales impact.
Tools & Technologies
Notion, Slack, testing environments
Collaboration Highlights
Art team, developers, level designers
Visual effects dashboard for maintenance and use case tracking
Sample use case pages with sub-database (filtered view) for attribute details, templatized
Added categories to public visual effects documentation and key use data
Diagram of Visual Effects Dashboard, Compendium, and Public Docs Pipeline
The Challenge
Visual effects development was inconsistent and lacked organization across updates, making bugs and new features hard to track. Creators lacked guidance for best practices.
Goal & Objectives
- Facilitate internal knowledge sharing to benefit public users
- Standardize visual effect sub-parameter development
- Shift update and bug tracking to cross version for clearer picture
My Role & Approach
Designed Notion structure, facilitated cross-team input, curated compendium.
Key Deliverables
- Internal dashboard for art team and third party dev collaboration
- Built-in internal compendium of best uses for production team
- Public facing documentation improvements
Results & Impact
- Built Notion dashboard + creative use compendium standardizing visual effects workflows across art, dev, and level design
- Improved bug/change tracking and best-practice flow to creators, raising consistency and quality
- Reduced internal misalignment and accelerated development cycles
- Indirectly enhanced support efficiency through better creator outcomes