and remember you don't need to have manager in your job title to be your leader so if you would
like to be purposeful and show leadership in your next design role then show up with a plan follow
through get feedback and adjust if necessary hi my name is Niki and welcome to my channel this video
is for designers who are just about to start a new job onboarding to a new company to a new product
can be very challenging and sometimes companies don't have a well established onboarding process
whenever I start a new design role I always feel like I am drinking from a fire hose of information
I find a new job exciting but also tiring and a tad bit scary I'm only human and I am afraid
of change like most of us I'm afraid there will change because I don't know the outcome my brain
seeks peace and for my brain the unknown that comes with a new job is the opposite of Peace
but what if there was a way to make a new job only exciting and not anxiety inducing well there
is a way in my opinion nothing beats planning so getting into a new job with a plan and goals that
you want to achieve can greatly help structure your learnings and the new information so when
I Googled 30 90 and 100 Day plans I found many templates on the internet but I didn't find
any that was made for user experience and product designers so I came up with a template that I now
want to share with you and give it away for free head over to the description box because there
is a link to the template feel free to customize it to your needs to the company the product goals
team structure and the domain that you're going to learn so let's take a look okay so once you
click the link then you come here and then you click file click make a copy and then just go in
to select the folder where you would like to save it and then click make a copy and once you've done
that you will be able to edit this document in this document you will find a three pages long
checklist the structure of this document is I have these sections day 1 to 30 and then another
section day 31 to 60 and day 61 to 90. so that's your first three months you can write your focus
and goals to each section but I just gave you a little bit of a guideline here because I think
during the first 30 days your focus should be learning observing and thinking about what you've
just seen and you've got to ask a lot of questions and listen to people you don't need to offer any
solutions to anything just yet just listen and take a lot of notes and you gotta read relevant
materials you've got to ask your manager and your body for recommendations of Articles research
design and internal documents you should study and you gotta make connections so I would recommend to
meet one-on-one with all of your teammates that you're going to work with on day one you gotta
attend your new starter training prepare your questions ahead of time and you want to meet
your manager on one-on-one and your buddy hopefully the company assigns a body to you and then you're
going to meet your team and set up your computers and all of your design tools whatever that might
be figma maybe Photoshop illustrator set up your phone to access your work applications that's
important if you're working remotely because you might want to take a walk during lunch
break and maybe somebody scheduled a meeting so you just want to have access to all of your work
apps from your phone and you've got to introduce yourself on companies communication channels if
you're not working remotely then you probably would like to get your employee card done and
ask for an office tour from the office manager where you find a washroom and you know just
all of these etiquettes that come with working from an office, I always make sure that I check
my details and personal information in the HR and payroll system especially if you have an
unusual spelling of your name so check that and then you need to come up with some kind
of note-taking system to set up your browser bookmarks and your folder structures as well
because everybody will send you documents you want to find them away and come back to later and then
once you learned who's who in the zoo then you gotta review your 90-day plan and customize it
and during your first day don't forget to have lunch and stay hydrated I added this note here
so you can just add another item here and that's that once you're actually done with an item then
you just click this and that's it I lumped Day 2 to 30 together because it really depends on
how long your mandatory trainings are what kind of company you're working looking for if you're
joining a smaller startup then you're probably not going to have 20 30 hours long online trainings
however if you're joining a larger organization then you're probably spend most of your first
week completing the online trainings that's why I call first week week zero because nothing really
gets done if you're joining a larger organization I am not going to walk you through the rest of
this document because hopefully everything makes sense so I am just going to scroll through here
a couple of things that I wanted to mention quick links so you just want to save all of
the important links that you're going to work with I would highly recommend to have a quick link to
the IT Help Desk how to report an issue what if you don't have access to a software payroll
access is important so then you can check when you get paid and all of these important things
that you definitely need to study during your first couple of weeks is the product roadmap
the figma files what the team did in the past and if you have a design system that you need to work
with all of the miro boards and figJam files and research and design documents that people
already done to make things even more visual you can set up a table here with your tasks and
goals for example mandatory employee training modules you can mark if something is completed
or in progress, you can choose from these but you can easily customize it by adding or removing up
options and then you can add your notes to the row as well it can contain links or whatever you want
to include here for example when you're trying to get a demo account to certain products or
projects and you are blocked because the contact person is on leave until next week then you can
just make a note of that and come back to it once the person is back you can use the 90-day plan as
a guide and to collect resources and quick links to identify responsibilities to set expectations
and goals in your new job to document Milestones that can support conversations with your manager
on professional and career development and just to show proactivity so if you don't want to leave
your onboarding to chance then get the checklist and I wish you best of luck in your new job