Redesign fever is real.

Redesign fever is real.

You have a vision for how it should work. Clean. Obvious. The thing the product was always supposed to be. You're ready to tear it down and rebuild.

Then you actually open the current state. And it doesn't match what you expected to receive in the first place. You can't even tell what's going on anywhere.

That gap between the version in your head and the version on screen? Chef's kiss frustration. The redesign isn't the work. Closing that gap is the work — and most teams never name it that way.