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If you were the first creative hire in a company with a legacy/outdated product that's never been touched by a designer, how long would you reasonably expect before being able to set in motion the implementation of a new design system and new UX?

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  1. Tara Wellington
    Tara Wellington

    BILL VP of Product, Product Platform • 1y

    This answer definitely depends on the company, culture, leadership, product - so you can take my answer with a grain of salt. Generally, I like to use the “first 90 days” approach from the book aptly named “The First 90 Days” by Michael D. Watkins.  The first 30 days is all about listening. Do as much listening and learning as you can. Don’t try to affect change during this time. Focus on learning the culture, the people, the products, the customers - and most importantly focus on building relat ...Read More

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  2. Julian Dunn
    Julian Dunn

    Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y

    This depends a lot on whether it is materially causing problems for the business. (There are an awful of legacy products out there with legacy UX, but there few motivations to improve them because cost of market entry is high, for example, and so there are few new competitors) For the purposes of answering this question, I'm going to assume you are the first creative hire because there is a problem, and they want you to fix it. What I would probably not do is to go into meetings and pitch a new ...Read More

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