How To Modernize Legacy UX
About this workshop
Learn how to untangle and overhaul legacy UX — modernize, migrate and eventually sunset it, without breaking the product along the way.
Dealing with legacy feels like fighting windmills. It's exhausting, frustrating, and usually going nowhere. It doesn't just slow you down. It creeps into every decision, blocks good ideas, drains effort and leaves little to show for it. How do you ship good work when the system itself is working against you?
- Hard truths about legacy, why it persists, hard to replace
- Systems thinking, how to use it to untangle legacy
- Five legacy migration strategies, how to choose the right one
- Feature parity vs. outcome parity, when to innovate vs. replicate
- Frankenstein dilemma: what to migrate, carry forward and cut
- “Big bang” vs. incremental rollout, why both are dangerous traps
- Mitigate risks of big failures, unknown unknowns, “Black Swans”
- Modernization strategy: UX facades, off-ramp, the strangler fig
- Migration UX for data, workflows, mental models, long-standing habits
- Legacy UX research: methods that work, how to use them
Training: How To Modernize Legacy UX
16–18 Nov 2026Online
3 live lessons · 15:30 – 18:00 CET
Early Bird
€449
+ VAT
Regular
€499
+ VAT
Late Bird
€549
+ VAT
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Get your seat →What you'll learn
You'll walk away with a powerful toolbox of techniques and real-world examples to apply to your projects, products, or apps.
Included in your ticket
Certificate of completion
to document your expertise
Live teaching
interactive sessions with time for questions
Hands-on exercises
apply what you learn during the sessions
Take-home artefacts
incl. examples & checklists
Recordings of all lessons
to revisit details anytime
Who is this workshop for?
- Product designers and PMs in large organizations and orgs where "we can't touch that" is the default response.
- UX Leads and Service designers who want to explore a strategy to tackle and improve legacy UX in complex environments
- Design managers and researchers who want to move a needle with legacy systems, without breaking everything along the way
Date and time
Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 November 2026
3 lessons of 3.5 hrs
each day at 15:30 – 18:00 CET
Training location
This training takes place online as live, interactive video calls.
You'll join the sessions from wherever you are — all you need is a computer and a stable internet connection. All lessons are recorded in case you miss one.
Calendar invites and Zoom links (no registration required) are sent to you via email after you complete the registration.
A workshop by
Vitaly Friedman
Founder & UX Coach
Vitaly Friedman is a renowned UX consultant and the creative lead of Smashing Magazine, with more than two decades of experience in leading design.
He has expertise in establishing design KPIs, tracking progress, and using data to guide design decisions. Vitaly is also the author, co-author, and editor of Smashing Books, and has given well received talks and workshops with PUSH.
