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The Benefits of a Design System: Making Better Products, Faster

Design systems increase collaboration, ensure consistency, and accelerate design and development cycles. Toptal product designer Molham Bakir lays out how—and shares insights and tips from his experience building them.

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Molham Bakir

Molham Bakir

Molham is a product designer who specializes in building design systems. His clients include Snap Inc. and e-commerce websites Dubizzle and Mumzworld, the largest online baby shop in the Middle East.

4 UX Tips to Reduce Users’ Cognitive Overload and Burnout

Knowledge workers spend most of their workdays using digital tools. These low-friction UX strategies help reduce techno-stress and increase healthy user engagement.

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Rodrigo Perez Estrada

Rodrigo Perez Estrada

Rodrigo is a product designer who specializes in creating early-stage digital products and services for companies in fintech, healthcare, and insurance. His contributions to Yerbo, a healthcare product whose clients include Nubank, Gitlab, and Pandadoc, improved user burnout scores and helped the platform achieve a 20% exercise activation rate. Rodrigo holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and an MBA.

UX Design Job Interview Tips for Global Candidates: Landing Your Dream Role in the US

Searching for a design job is never easy—and it’s even more challenging if you’re new to the country and culture you want to work in. Here are steps one designer took to build a successful design career in America.

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Elena Bukhonok

Elena Bukhonok

Elena is a multidisciplinary product designer and educator from Ukraine who now works in New York City. She has worked for numerous companies in the US and Ukraine, including fashion-technology startup CreateMe, healthcare startup Outcomes4Me, and EPAM, an enterprise software company used by Google, Salesforce, and Adobe. She holds a bachelor’s in architecture from Lviv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine and speaks four languages.

Supporting Diverse Needs: A Rebranding Success Story

Brand designer Bari Keenam shares how he turned a tricky logo redesign into a brand overhaul that helped his client establish an emotional connection with its customers.

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Bariledum Keenam

Bariledum Keenam

Bari is a brand designer with a user-centric approach to brand ideation. With a background in engineering and marketing, he excels at problem-solving and brings diverse perspectives to brand creation. Bari teaches typography and UX design at the Lagos Engineering Career Expo and the Àṣà Coterie design community.

Real Estate Financial Modeling: 3 Costly Mistakes to Avoid

Rising construction costs mean real estate developers are relying on complex—and potentially costly—finance structures more often. Smarter modeling will help keep borrowing costs low.

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Robert Finch

Robert Finch

Robert is the founder and director of UK-based property finance broker Sativa Finance and an expert in financial modeling. He has worked in real estate finance since 2006, securing ~$1.8 billion in financing for commercial acquisitions and construction projects.

Mining for Data Clusters: Social Network Analysis With R and Gephi

Explore X (formerly Twitter) data clusters to uncover user behaviors (e.g., repost and reply patterns) within online communities. This guide focuses on a politically charged data set to illustrate the process of visualizing and analyzing social data.

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Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Juan is a developer, data scientist, and doctoral researcher at the University of Buenos Aires where he studies social networks, AI, and NLP. Juan has more than a decade of data science experience and has published papers at ML conferences, including SPIRE and ICCS.

Supply Chain Optimization Using Python and Mathematical Modeling

Improving supply chains is a top priority worldwide. Discover how mathematical optimization and Python coding can help keep a complex supply chain competitive.

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Michael Hopf

Michael Hopf

Michael is a developer, data science consultant, and expert in supply chain optimization for heavy industry clients in rail, vessels, and mining. He has a PhD in mathematical optimization and was a consultant in the analytics practice of McKinsey & Company’s QuantumBlack for four years.

Fintech Product Development: How to Embrace Innovation in a Complex Industry

Managing fintech products can be a complex affair for product managers new to the sector. Use these expert tips to develop reliable gateways for businesses and their customers.

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Purva Tamhankar

Purva Tamhankar

Purva is a fintech product manager with more than a decade of experience developing solutions for banking, lending, and other financial services. She has held senior product roles at international companies, including associate director of product management at Standard Chartered and assistant vice president of product management at Home Credit India.

Haptics in Healthcare: An Opportunity for Designers to Help Revolutionize Telemedicine

Telemedicine has exploded in recent years, expanding access to healthcare services. But it’s missing an indispensable element of medical care: touch. Enter haptic technology.

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Kiran Khan

Kiran Khan

Kiran is an award-winning Toptal UI/UX designer and expert in healthcare UI/UX. She led the development of VR and AR products for Janssen pharmaceuticals (now Johnson & Johnson) and has also worked on biosensor-based apps that improve users’ sleep patterns and prevent intoxicated people from driving.

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