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Make Your App Profitable, Part 2 – Harnessing the Mobile Funnel

Subscription-based apps need a special approach when it comes to analytics. Learn how a variation on the traditional sales funnel helps you work with LTV, subscriber retention, and churn rates to make your app better—and more profitable.

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Matthew Knippen

Matthew Knippen

CX Design: Why UX Is the Moment and CX Is the Memory

CX design encompasses every interaction a customer has with a business. UX may shape the moment, but CX shapes the memory through digital products, physical spaces, support channels, social platforms, and personalized touchpoints. To create cohesive experiences that fulfill a brand’s promise, brand designers must adopt a CX design mindset.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Creating Your First GraphQL API

GraphQL is a domain-specific language for data query and manipulation by Facebook. It is meant to replace the de facto REST standard in API creation.

In this article, Toptal Freelance GraphQL Developer Ioram Gordadze creates a GraphQL API from scratch, summarizing problems new GraphQL developers face. He also teaches us to rethink the standard methods used in REST APIs in a more GraphQL-friendly manner.

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Ioram Gordadze

Ioram Gordadze

Mini Tutorial: A Guide to Font Combinations

Effective font combinations are a hallmark of good design. It’s vital that designers master this skill if they want to create exceptional designs that set them apart from their contemporaries.

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Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman

Equity Levels of Value: The Logic Behind Premiums and Discounts

Business value is much more than just the sum of discounted future cash flows. There are strategic elements related to equity control that also determine true worth. These factors manifest through control, liquidity, marketability, and synergistic discounts and premiums.

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Nathan Krishnan S

Nathan Krishnan S

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Increase Code Maintainability With React Integration Testing

Integration tests provide a lot of value considering the time and effort required for testing. React integration tests improve code maintainability, yet they don’t slow down development.

In this article, Toptal Software Developer Anton Rublev demonstrates how you can harness the power of react-testing-library to create superior code without wasting time.

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Anton Rublev

Anton Rublev

Top Data Visualization Examples and Dashboard Designs

Data visualization and dashboard design is both an art and a science. The correct use of dashboard UX and graphical excellence principles turn ordinary graphics into extraordinary experiences.

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Shane Ketterman

Shane Ketterman

Avoiding Bad Practices in iOS and Android Design

In an era of cross-platform mobile development, it is crucial to understand the specifics of different operating systems and hardware.

In this article, Mobile Developer Martin Doychev lists a number of bad practices employed while creating apps for iOS and Android and explains what you should and shouldn’t do.

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Martin Doychev

Martin Doychev

Remote Working As a Freelance Designer

We chat with Toptal Design Lead Lubos Volkov—who’s worked remotely his whole career—about tips and strategies for balancing life, work, and the pleasure of a remote setting.

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Luboš Volkov

Luboš Volkov

A Software Defined Radio Tutorial: Images From the International Space Station and Listening to Hams With an RTL-SDR

Radio has used fundamentally the same technology since Marconi’s experiments in 1895. However, improved circuit design and signal processing techniques have allowed us to transmit much more and much farther out than before.

In this article, with a laptop and less than $30 worth of equipment, we’ll capture images transmitted from the International Space Station and listen to amateur radio conversations at a local repeater.

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Amin Shah Gilani

Amin Shah Gilani

Looking at Failed IPOs in the Age of the Unicorn

For many years, the IPO market appeared dormant. 2019, however, is bucking the trend with a large number of high-profile tech companies going live on stock exchanges. Not all of these IPOs have been successes. What is the process and what determines success (or lack thereof)?

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Natasha Ketabchi

Natasha Ketabchi

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