Rebecca Holland
Former Rangle contributor
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Glossier glosses over product strategy in favor of tech investments
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
The design system of systems: A scaled approach that works for enterprises
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
Low-risk headless CMS migrations: Calibrating your migration to your customer
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
Is your design system performing?
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
A beginner's guide to UX writing
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.
The best way to combat the "Great Reshuffle"
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.
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