How do experienced designers advocate their role at scale?

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Advocate design with company-wide UX Onboarding

We rolled out a company-wide UX onboarding.

Every new hire went through a 2-hour workshop we ran.

In the workshop, we set expectations around our role:

what we do day-to-day

what our process look like, with examples of output

how to reach out to us and what for

plus a hands on design thinking exercise

How long to create UX onboarding?

It didn’t take long to create, but it took a while to execute.

Since we were growing so fast, we did UX onboarding every week for 20-30 people.

We rotated who would present, and by the end of the quarter, we onboarded 300 people.

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How do experienced designers advocate their role at scale?

Advocate design with company-wide UX Onboarding

How long to create UX onboarding?

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