Nick Van Weerdenburg
Design Thinking and other problem space tools promise answers, but the ultimate answers need to come from the customer and from the market.
Diversity and inclusion are top of mind for tech companies these days and it’s about time. As an industry, we have failed to provide opportunities and empowerment for all people. We can’t let our past mistakes dictate our future.
PhoneGapDay 2016 happened in Salt Lake City last week and it was great to see how the mobile ecosystem is evolving. For me, it was a perfect start to 2016 and offered an opportunity to ponder 2015's many innovations (such as Angular 2, Ionic 2, Native Script, and React Native) and what that means for mobile app development.
The release of the Angular 2.0 Beta is a massive release with far reaching effects for a huge portion of the web application industry.
This month, Rangle had the pleasure of being the lead sponsor of ReactEurope 2015 in Paris. Having used ReactJS and Flux architectures in about a third of our projects in the last six months, we were very excited about this event… And what a fantastic event it was: being well organized, with an amazing roster of speakers and talks.
Rangle.io has a unique learning culture. We are focused on a very specific technology (modern JavaScript and HTML5 applications) and a very specific process (Lean UX design with agile continuous delivery) and we've applied these practices to over 2 dozen projects. That has led to certain truths emerging over and over. Truths I'd like to present here, alongside some suggested solutions.
No contractors. Face-to-face teams in the same office. Integrated design and development. Frequent delivery. Validated UX. The application becomes the core design element. This is how we roll at rangle.io, with an intense real-time fusion of design and development. We haven't been talking about it enough, and I'm embarrassed to admit we've been under-representing our amazing design team on our website... something that we will be fixing in short order.
It's being rewritten around mobile. It's being rewritten around services. This is the API revolution built on REST and JSON and the strategic need for SaaS solutions to talk to other SaaS solutions.