Mike Costanzo
Former Rangle contributor
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Avoiding the Design System Death Spiral
Whether you're a designer, developer, product manager, or design system enthusiast, this webinar empowers you with the knowledge and tools to ensure your design system's success.
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Design System Product-Market Fit: Common design systems adoption pitfalls and how to avoid them
In this article, we share the most common pitfalls we see companies make who are planning or stuck in a failing design system project.
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Lean Discovery: Shifting from Outputs to Outcomes by Finding & Fixing Customer Pain
So many software development projects start with high levels of uncertainty. Some of it is explicit, you many not know exactly who the target customer is and what they want, and some of it may be implicit, you have a great idea but are uncertain about the technical risks of delivering the experience or what the state-of-the-art is capable of and, as they say, you don't know what you don't know. In these cases we echo the words of "Ike" Eisenhower:
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Stakeholder Experience Design
Because Rangle is a consultancy, we have the opportunity to work with many different clients over a relatively short period. Over the last two years, we've been able to refine a lean discovery process that allows us to rapidly align our teams with our clients and lay the groundwork for establishing clear communication channels on day one. What I realized over this time was something I had learned early in my career as a graphic designer pitching to upper management: the first experience you design is for your stakeholders.
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How Note Taking Builds Better Teams & Products
In this post, our Lead UX Designer Mike shares the one little addition to your design process that can really change the answer to the question
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Master UI Wireframes with Only Three Shapes
Above is every shape you need to draw in order to master the art of sketching amazing user interfaces (UI). A circle, a square, and a triangle. That's it.