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The Tried and True Laws of UX (with Infographic)
Just as there are cause and effect relationships, there are the laws of UX: predictable outcomes and human behaviors in UX a designer can use to design superior products. This infographic explains it all.
Miklos Philips
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
Developing a Bioinformatics Database for Disulfide Bonds Research
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) bioinformatics database is the world’s largest repository of experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. All data is gathered using experimental methods such as X-ray, spectroscopy, crystallography, NMR, etc. This article explains how to extract, filter, and clean data from the PDB to make it suitable for further analysis.
Viktor Bojović
With a diverse background in science and teaching and his software engineer experience, Victor is a passionate programmer with many talents.
Don't Fight Employee Turnover. Accept, Adapt, and Leverage It.
Although employee tenures are decreasing, innovative companies embrace the trend as an opportunity to maximize impact. In this article, Andy Anderson, a Toptal Client Partner, shares perspective on how such companies view - and capitalize on - employee attrition.
Andy Anderson
As a Client Partner, Andy helps clients build teams around their most pressing challenges by tapping into the power of the human cloud.
The Impending Commercial Robot Revolution
The field of robotics has seen incredible strides forward in recent years. As a result of improvements in computer vision, dexterity and also overall economics, use of robots has increased in a variety of different fields. However, most of the growth in robotics so far has happened in industrial applications, and thus hidden from the view of the general public. But is this about to change?
In this article, Toptal Finance Expert Francesco Castellano focuses on the commercial robotics market. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in the fields of AI, mechatronics, sensors, and batteries, service and commercial robots are likely to see tremendous growth and adoption, likely heralding a new robotics revolution that could transform our daily lives in countless ways.
Francesco Castellano
Francesco has over a decade of experience in finance, consulting, and management, at prestigious companies such as Bain and Uber.
How to Use Powerful Gestalt Principles in Design (with Infographic)
Gestalt’s guiding principle, that our minds tend to perceive objects as part of a greater whole, is a very useful and powerful design technique [includes infographic].
Miklos Philips
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
Exploring SMACSS: Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
CSS is notorious for getting messy quickly as a website scales. While frameworks like Bootstrap can help, SMACSS takes a different approach, as a set of solid organizational guidelines. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Developer Slobodan Gajic gives us a run-down of the idea and benefits behind Jonathan Snook’s architectural wisdom.
Slobodan Gajic
Slobodan’s development career began alongside his BSc in IT and has lately crossed into eSports. HTML5/CSS3/JS and Angular are his mainstay.
UI vs. UX: Explore the Core Differences (Infographic)
UI and UX designers must work in tandem in order to create a finished product that delights users both visually and functionally.
Cameron Chapman
Cameron comes from a design background and is the author of two web design books: Color for Web Design and The Smashing Idea Book.
Python Machine Learning Prediction With a Flask REST API
Employing Python to make machine learning predictions can be a daunting task, especially if your goal is to create a real-time solution. However, Tensorflow and Scikit-Learn can significantly speed up implementation.
In this article, Toptal Python Developer Guillaume Ferry outlines a simple architecture that should help you progress from a basic proof of concept to a minimal viable product without much hassle.
Guillaume Ferry
Guillaume is a Kaggle expert specialized in ML and AI. He’s experienced in tackling large projects and exploring new solutions for scaling.
Should You Go It Alone With a Single-person Startup?
Conventional wisdom says you need a team to found a startup. But what if you prefer to do it alone or can’t find the right co-founders? Contrary to popular belief, there are many successful solo ventures. This guide shows you how to get started.
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