To improve legacy systems, sometimes you need to take a restoration mindset

Improving legacy systems is often like restoring an old farmhouse

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readJan 13, 2022

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A farmhouse in the middle of a green field. The red barn is need of some paint, and there are a couple of improvements to be made.
Photo by Pexels

“Sorry, some of the screens look like they’re straight from the 90s.” The client said she showed me the project I’d be designing for. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard that, and it probably wouldn’t be the last.

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