11 rules I live by as a UX-team-of-one in an early-stage startup

What I learned in my “first 90 days”

Lai-Jing Chu
Nov 3 · 6 min read

My “first 90-days” at Empowerly, an early-stage startup, was spent speed-fixing an utterly broken web app so that our users can successfully access our basic revenue-generating service features to complete their tasks. Now that the product is patched up, we saw our user engagement up by four-fold — and can at least for a brief moment let out a sigh of relief. Of course, this is just the beginning of a very, very long journey.

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Lai-Jing Chu

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Product designer at Empowerly. http://www.laijingchu.net

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