When I join a new team, I hold two intro meetings. The first focuses on project objectives and challenges, while the second shares my plans, timelines, and deliverables.

In the first month I focus on the company's workflow and share info on and design strategy and identify any blockers. We focus in on story load and look at the teams capacity for future updates, while getting a good sprint cadence mapped out to meet our project goals.

In this phase, I focus on collaborating with users to identify pain points in the current design and review similar products to establish content and user flow preferences. I gather feedback on new language, components, and style concepts, conducting interviews and tests on evolving designs to create an optimal user-friendly experience.

I collaborate with the product team to package new component styles and template pages. We detail specific complex flows and components that will be handed to development in phases. Additionally, I gather any remaining development specifications and document them in our "ready for dev" file to ensure a smooth transition.

As we go live and evaluate our goals through KPIs, I create a chat thread for each story to collaboratively address any issues. I review updates for pixel perfection and continue to work with the testing and development teams as we gather more feedback and analytics.