Retail & Consumer
Reaching customers with impactful UX at high scale and reliability.
Retail and consumer-facing products live and die by user experience. At scale, any latency, friction, or confusion, and downtime is catastrophic. At the same time, modern applications increasingly depend on real-time data, personalization, AI-backed behavior, and complex fulfillment or logistics pipelines: demanding infrastructure that is both robust and responsive.
Every new feature must work in the wild from day one across devices, regions, edge cases, and usage spikes.
Consistent Challenges
- Product and engineering teams are under pressure to ship continuously, respond to analytics, and deliver the highest quality in polished user experience.
- Reliability, performance, and brand trust can't be compromised.
- Margin pressures are real, so high throughput, low latency, and cost efficiency all matter greatly.
- Development teams can end up chasing production incidents rather than building the product roadmap.
- Telemetry needs continuous, thoughtful instrumentation and interpretation as priorities shift.
How We Help
- We give retail development teams the leverage and support to proactively build the next generation of user experience, not just react to production concerns.
- We build and harden software through the full stack to perform reliably under massive scale and load conditions.
- We implement infrastructure for feature-flagged rollouts, A/B testing, personalization, and analytics.
- We integrate AI-driven features like recommendations, classification, and content, as well as payments, logistics, and fulfillment systems.
- We deliver with the user experience quality and polish expected by global brands and their customers.
Our Responsibilities
- Partner with design and UX teams to envision, prototype, and test new retail experiences across web and mobile.
- Support your team's ability to launch, observe, and iterate on new features at scale.
- Inform and evolve test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and TDD/BDD practices as needed.
- Contribute to your architectural practices, development culture, and approach to reliability and quality.
- Build transparently: working in the open, demoing regularly, and bringing stakeholders along on the journey.
- Help your team understand and prepare for the ways AI will reshape customer experience and operations in retail.
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Nordstrom T-Shirt
referencing the Android App Store
"The GenUI team helped us achieve 5X ROI."
Hugh Birch
Zulily