Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss stepped down from her role as chief executive of the buzzy cosmetics brand on Tuesday this week, in the wake of huge layoffs impacting their technology team, and failed launches of in-store shopping experiences.
Align Product Strategy
Fighting organizational complexity is a losing battle. For enterprise companies, their complexity is their strength — multiple product lines, international footprints (and even multiple subsidiary businesses), all work together to reduce risk across the breadth of the organization — and help the company span multi-decade or even multi-century changes to their markets.
Scale Design
Risk is the word of the moment in the C-suite at most major companies in the commerce space. The competition for market share is hotter than ever, and the pandemic proved to many organizations that moving fast is not only possible, it's necessary.
Escape CMS & Commerce Lock-In
Nowadays, many companies have a design system, but the issues many organizations currently face include scaling it, getting the right funding, determining who owns the design system, and getting buy-in from internal product teams to use it.
Scale Design
UX writing is based on two simple principles: Be respectful and be useful. A UX writer works from a place of empathy, always thinking about the end user or customer first, and putting themselves in their place to understand how an interface can be a delightful experience, removing any potential frustrations, problems, or mistakes for them.
Employee satisfaction is the new buzzword on the lips of the C-suite across the world. While hardly a new concept — studies on job satisfaction go back decades — the employment turnover rate in the US for the tech industry is projected to reach 70%, according to a study cited in a recent article in Forbes.
Build Engineering Capability
The countdown to Web Summit is on, which means we're only days away from our CEO Nick Van Weerdenburg's keynote presentation at the exclusive Corporate Innovation Summit (CIS), an invite-only conference ahead of the main event.
Modernize Your Stack
The goal of most modern organizations is to create a business that centers their customer. Customer-centricity is a byword for enterprises, but too few really treat their users as the experts, and instead rely on what the executive thinks they know about the market, based on their decades of experience. Being focused on the customer then, is a process of unlearning the traditional business decision making practices that many executives were raised on, and radically shifting the mindsets and decision making flows to support swift reactions to market changes.
Align Product Strategy
At Rangle, we do quality differently. Our practice is built on the notion of shifting quality to the left—that is, moving quality from it's traditional place as the last-step-in-product-development- before-release, to the beginning of the delivery pipeline, being a part of all steps in the process. This has major benefits for digital products of all kinds, but it can really move the needle for healthcare companies.
Build Engineering Capability
While plenty of articles about the new business ecosystem have focused on creating digital systems for products or platforms, the ecosystem concept can be applied to any number of industries where relying on partnerships is the norm.
Align Product Strategy
Per a recent article in Business of Fashion, the forward-looking company was able to grow their share price and re-establish the exclusivity and covetability of their brand by implementing a digital-first strategy.
Modernize Your Stack
As a consultancy, we're committed to solving big challenges—anything from building medical companion apps that pass strict CE certification requirements, to creating a leading multinational retailer's design system that governs all their regional sites. Working with enterprise clients on time-sensitive product launches means that we can't afford to choose tools that slow us down. With Figma, our creative team has an intuitive tool that works at our speed, and gives our designers the flexibility to work in an Agile way.
Scale Design