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Think S.M.A.R.T. When Defining Business Goals for Your Next UX Project

Designers must frame a problem and identify a solution while also impacting the client’s bottom line. The S.M.A.R.T. framework helps designers stay goal-oriented and increase their success rate.

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Matteo di Pascale

Matteo di Pascale

Prototyping with Real Data – A Framer Tutorial

Prototyping with real data can be compared to building something out of LEGO: Instead of working with imaginary, loose shapes, we can use existing components out of the box and build something real.

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Wojciech Dobry

Wojciech Dobry

Angular Change Detection and the OnPush Strategy

Out of the box, Angular provides two different change detection strategies: Default and OnPush. Each strategy has its own advantages, but sometimes it is easy to miss a nifty optimization opportunity if you stick to the default strategy.

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Ahmet Shapiro-Erciyas walks us through the available change detection strategies and shows how to use them in any Angular project.

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Ahmet Shapiro-Erciyas

Ahmet Shapiro-Erciyas

Commercial Drones Are Revolutionizing Business Operations

When most hear “drone,” they think expensive military aircrafts or small consumer toys. However, the future of drones will actually be shaped by practical commercial applications, due to their ability to drive efficiency and data analytics.

This article defines drones and their total addressable market and highlights how their capabilities can be leveraged in commercial business operations. It also includes investment trends and predictions for the future of the industry.

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Francesco Castellano

Francesco Castellano

TV UI Design: Working with White Space

White space is an often overlooked and underutilized element in many TV UI designs. However, using white space intentionally improves comprehension and focus and enhances the user’s experience.

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Pascal Potvin

Pascal Potvin

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Trunk-based Development vs. Git Flow

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Konrad Gadzinowski dissects trunk-based development and Git flow, listing the pros and cons for various use cases.

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Konrad Gadzinowski

Konrad Gadzinowski

Creating an Immersive Fan Experience for a Global Sports Audience

Learn how the 2016 NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers use technology to engage their global fan base.

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Toptal Research

Toptal Research

Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio: Quiet Pioneer of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Fintech

Ray Dalio is an investing legend whose success is most often attributed to investment acumen. This article argues that it was equally due to his foresight as an early but quiet adopter of computational systems, big data techniques, and artificial intelligence that resulted in his outstanding success. Bridgewater was one of the world’s earliest fintech companies.

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Orinola Gbadebo-Smith

Orinola Gbadebo-Smith

Future UI Design Without Buttons

Why do we still use buttons in our user interfaces? Technology has come so far and offers so many possibilities, there is no longer any reason to force our users to click the tiny rectangles we call “buttons.”

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Wojciech Dobry

Wojciech Dobry

How to Implement a Pixel-perfect iOS UI Design

In this article, Toptal Freelance Developer Roman Stetsenko explains what it takes to create a pixel-perfect iOS interface from the ground up and why it matters.

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Roman Stetsenko

Roman Stetsenko

Android and iOS UI Testing with Calabash

Do you think testing your iOS or Android apps manually is faster than writing automated tests for them? Calabash, the cross-platform acceptance framework, busts that myth once and for all.

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Alexander Gedevanishvili shows how Calabash, with its support for Cucumber, makes writing automated UI tests as simple as writing instructions in plain English.

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Alexander Gedevanishvili

Alexander Gedevanishvili

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