Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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From Adobe to Zeppelin and everything in between, how can designers create a workflow that makes it easy for us as creators to share our work with all our collaborators, and to bring a product to launch with minimal friction?
Scale Design
I love data, ideas, and solving problems, but I'm neither a developer nor a designer, nor do I have a wealth of commercial or consulting experience. So what was I doing here?
When I think back on the client engagements I've worked on at Rangle, each one of them had at their core a high-functioning blended team of Ranglers and client-side practitioners that came together to achieve remarkable outcomes on very short timelines. The process of creating these blended teams is key to our success as a consultancy.
Build Engineering Capability
Purpose is not new. It was first referenced in the 14th century, and even the ancient philosophers had a crack at defining the purpose of life: The pursuit of knowledge (Plato), or creating a plan for 'living well' (Aristotle). But Simon Sinek's 2009 book,
Align Product Strategy
When WebAssembly (Wasm) launched in 2017, there was a massive hype around it; people called it the next step in web development. As the exposure grew, the open-source community began to generate a lot of support and tooling for it. The decentralized nature of the community makes it challenging to track Wasm's current state, so this blog post will recap its evolution over the past five years and what WebAssembly has developed into in 2022.
Frontend Development
As the Great Reshuffle sweeps through the US, attracting the right talent and building a genuine culture is on the minds of every C-level executive — including those outside of the US, who worry that their country is next.
Build Engineering Capability
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.
For many Product Owners or product team leaders, design systems still seem like a nice-to-have, rather than a must-have. Companies may have a design system implemented up to the point of a design kit (which aligns the work of designers within their own teams, but does little to support cross-functional work), or have multiple, mostly independent design systems that cover each of their products, which aren't helping with speed and scale for the overall business.
Scale Design
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
Over the past couple of years working at Rangle, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a handful of design systems (DS). One consistent ask for the design systems I’ve worked on is to “make the design system accessible”, or get it to a point where they can certify that everything within the design system meets their minimum legal requirement for accessibility (like WCAG 2.x AA). On the surface, this sounds achievable, but this doesn’t mean what they think it means.
Scale Design
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
For many enterprises undergoing a digital transformation, the reasons are usually centered around the customer or end-user — improving their online shopping experience, the ease of interfacing with their company online, or giving them a best-in-class, personalized app experience.
Modernize Your Stack