Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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Andrew Kumar, Director of Platform Strategy at Contentful, and Bertrand Karerangabo, Vice President of Digital Strategy at Rangle share a wide-ranging look at CMS platforms—where they've come from, where they're going, and how to deliver top value to your digital customers now.
Escape CMS & Commerce Lock-In
A DesignOps practice, despite what the name may imply, has wider company benefits beyond the confines of the design team.
Scale Design
The purpose of a design system is to serve the needs of a team, not just an individual designer. You know that creating a design system creates speed, but it's not simply about the compound effect of cutting down on designer's grunt work—a design system also removes burdensome communication blockers, and adds speed to the work of the overall agile team, including developers, quality practitioners, and marketing/merchandising teams.
Scale Design
Since 2015, Rangle has been working with Google on tools and resources for developers, including our Angular Training Guide, to be released in a new edition on June 30. In partnership, we introduced Augury, the most-used tool for debugging, profiling, and inspecting Angular applications with Google Chrome. Augury is a tool that visualizes your code, helping developers understand what Angular is doing, without digging through source code. It's an excellent tool for new Angular developers, but equally useful for experts in the framework.
Frontend Development
Are we still talking about MVC? Isn't it dead already, with UML and waterfall? We want to soar through the cloud, create lambdas, use modern stacks, integrate with top-of-the-line libraries, the latest and the greatest — not something from a dust-covered book written a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. I hear you, young Padawan, but give me a few minutes of your time, and I'll explain how those two intersect, and how you can sit on the shoulders of giants.
Frontend Development
In the course of three years of consulting and problem solving for companies with existing design systems, one fact has become (at times, painfully) obvious: Design systems are hard to get right.
Scale Design
The ultimate business goal of any product organization is to see its products reach the Product Maturity phase of the product lifecycle. Reaching this coveted phase, especially in today's digital age, represents levels of determination and strategic execution that are difficult to achieve.
Align Product Strategy
Leading organizations have invested enormous resources into their digital experience, maturing their digital capabilities and delivering better experiences to customers. With all the right tools, people, and the right mindset, why are there still blockers?
Modernize Your Stack
We've all had ideas for a new game-changing product. Maybe it was a “shower thought”. Maybe you had an “aha” moment while struggling for the 15th time to complete a routine task. Or recent market research completed by your team showed a promising new market to exploit. Regardless of the inspiration, you were probably very excited to build out and launch this new product right?
Establishing a clear value proposition is no mean feat. For companies who have been operating for decades, or routinely bring new products and services to market, it's easy for the overall brand value and each line of business value to get muddy.
Align Product Strategy
Products and platforms exist for every industry, and all claim to make building your customer experience easier, more cost effective, and seamless across digital channels. They offer rich data and infrastructure, as well as frontend or customer experience features. Working with well-established platforms can be beneficial for reducing your lead time to launch new customer experiences, with their solid infrastructure, strong security and data measures, and well-connected features.
Escape CMS & Commerce Lock-In
Do you remember the last time you had a conversation about a newly popular product that seemed to have started losing its way? Maybe it was a new snack that tasted a little different as its ingredients adapted to mass production requirements, or a once-niche home improvement tool that now seemed
Align Product Strategy