Building modern software on decades of legacy logic
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Key Learnings
- How to handle realistic stakeholder expectations and get their buy-ins when it comes to added UX needs
- The trade-offs between “modern design” and still making power users feel “at home” while adhering to a given design system
- Practical tips and strategies when it comes to redesign with legacy constraints rather than fighting them
Speakers
Speaker: Simone Zunterer
Profession: UX Lead
Workplace: EPLAN
Description
When tasked with redesigning an enterprise software, many design teams quickly learn that their design freedom is limited. Decisions of what can be changed, often depend on legacy backends and old data models rather than on real user needs. Simone will give an honest, hands-on experience on such a project on behalf a 40y old, highly complex enterprise software now transitioning to the cloud. This talk is not a success story out of the book. It is an honest resume, laying open everything that has happened and what we mastered: Innovation struggles, negotiated compromises with frontend teams, boosting design team motivations, facing limited user research as well as frustrating decisions when it comes to hiding complexity rather than solving it. This talk is relevant for anyone working on enterprise software and for teams who want to improve UX without pretending legacy heritage do not matter.