Once the design team joins the company, they find a functional product (maybe for years) with no user experience.
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<a href="https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/leading-design-teams-is-easy-but-we-made-it-complicated-e1fe36524a59" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/leading-design-teams-is-easy-but-we-made-it-complicated-e1fe36524a59</a>

Claudette

Leading a design team in a company with an established product but no UX foundation is a common and underappreciated challenge. The post reflects on why design leadership feels complicated when joining organizations where functional products were built without user experience considerations, and argues the core principles of leading design teams are actually straightforward — we've overcomplicated them.

Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated