TLDR Design · MISCELLANEOUS

HOW TO IMPROVE UX IN LEGACY SYSTEMS

smashingmagazine.com8 min read

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Legacy systems are outdated, slow, and poorly documented, critical to daily operations but frustrating to users and stakeholders. These systems must coexist with modern digital products, creating fragmented user experiences in which a single broken step can make the entire product appear unusable. Rather than redesigning from scratch, organizations should build on existing knowledge and create a strategic UX roadmap to gradually improve these essential yet problematic systems.