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Managing Remote Freelancers? These Principles Will Help

As remote freelance work grows more prevalent, managers need new skills. Jon Younger, Founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative, introduces five principles to help managers lead distributed teams of agile talent.

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Jon Younger

Jon Younger

Jon is the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative, a non-profit cooperative that leads research to define best practice for agile talent.

Ngrx and Angular 2 Tutorial: Building a Reactive Application

Building a reactive web application is a lot more about how you handle events and data flow in your applications than the tools you use to do so. However, Angular 2 with Ngrx seems to be the perfect combination for building reactive applications for many reasons.

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Simon Boissonneault-Robert walks you through a reactive web application tutorial using Angular and Ngrx and shows how these two technologies make it easy to do that.

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Simon Boissonneault-Robert

Simon, M.C.E., has full-stack experience covering private- and public-sector projects of all sizes. He focuses on high-quality front ends.

Esports: A Guide to Competitive Video Gaming

While the complex esports industry may be daunting for investors, it is growing exponentially and has already amassed a large global audience. Here’s what to know about how to invest in esports.

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Framer Tutorial: 7 Simple Microinteractions to Improve Your Prototypes

Framer Studio is a powerful tool for creating interactive prototypes. Learn how to create seven useful microinteractions in no time to improve your prototype.

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Wojciech Dobry

Wojciech Dobry

Wojciech is a product designer and web designer with 8 years of experience. He’s passionate about typography and sound design.

Advanced PowerPoint Presentation Tips and Hacks

Many have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft’s PowerPoint. While super flexible, the tool can also be manual, tedious, and all-consuming, especially for the uninitiated. Authored by a former management consultant and management consultant, this article will help every user—from the beginner to the advanced operator—smooth out some of their points of friction and become an expert-level user of the application.

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Melissa Lin

Melissa Lin

Melissa has worked in ECM, tech startups, and management consulting, advising Fortune 500 companies across multiple sectors.

Effective Communication Strategies for Designers

It’s crucial that designers focus not only on cultivating their abilities with creative tools but also on improving their ability to communicate design effectively during the design process.

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Bronwen Rees

Bronwen Rees

Bronwen is a designer from London with experience in both brand and digital design. Her passion lies in learning and evolving her skills.

How to Build a Successful Minimum Viable Product

Vadim Dagman, a former startup CEO and Toptal Product Engineer, introduces a set of practical tactics that can help teams create successful MVPs.

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Vadim Dagman

Vadim Dagman

Vadim Dagman is a software developer, technologist, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and the author of seven issued patents.

Creating New Concepts With Design Thinking

Toptal designer Michael Abehsera explores how teams can apply the principles of design thinking to generate innovative ideas.

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Michael Abehsera

Michael Abehsera

Michael is an experienced UI/UX designer whose background in marketing and data analysis helps him make well-informed design decisions.

How Top Companies Use Machine Learning

How do top organizations use machine learning? Sib Mahapatra, Editor of Toptal Insights, shares case studies demonstrating how machine learning is deployed today to help companies of all sizes create value, cut costs and drive ROI.

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Sib Mahapatra

Sib Mahapatra

Sib Mahapatra is a growth consultant and entrepreneur with a keen interest in the future of work.

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