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Landing Page Best Practices (with Infographic)

It takes more than clever copy and visuals to compel conversion. Landing page best practices help designers craft content that is relevant, convincing, and optimized to make value instantly apparent.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful connections through branding, illustration, and design.

Showcase Your Skills: How to Make a Portfolio

Many designers grapple with how to create the perfect portfolio. By following best practices and the advice of industry professionals, they can craft portfolios that make their skills shine.

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Miklos Philips

Miklos Philips

Miklos is a design leader, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.

Enhanced Git Flow Explained

Git provides basic branching operations, but advanced patterns are left up to the user. The popular “Git flow” branching model helps, but can also complicate some common procedures.

Thankfully, a new variation retains the benefits, while streamlining everyday work.

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Daniel Ivanov

Daniel Ivanov

Daniel has helped startups bring products to market for more than a decade using best-of-breed approaches to HTML/CSS, JS, Python, and C#.

A Field Guide to DesignOps

DesignOps is a mindset that frees designers to focus on problem-solving. The approach allows staff to optimize processes and ensure that design is an integral part of organizational strategy.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful connections through branding, illustration, and design.

Productive XD Prototyping: An Adobe XD Components Tutorial

Adobe XD components empower designers with powerful features. Still, they’re quirky and need special care. This Adobe XD tutorial shows designers how to leverage them to streamline their workflows.

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Edward Moore

Edward Moore

Ed is focused on UX design for the emerging VR/AR sector. He has designed award-winning projects for Google, Sony, and Electronic Arts.

On-demand Reactivity in Vue 3

The release of Vue 3 brought about substantial performance improvements, but they should not overshadow the introduction of new features and paradigms.

In this article, Toptal Full-stack Developer Luka Mikec introduces you to the new Composition API and explains what Vue 3 means for code expressiveness, organization, and reuse.

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Luka Mikec

Luka Mikec

Luka has extensive experience in academia and full-stack software development. He is a cotutelle Ph.D. candidate in mathematics and computer science.

Building a Node.js/TypeScript REST API, Part 1: Express.js

Learn practical TypeScript patterns with interfaces and extended classes. Avoid messy console.log() statements with Winston and the Node.js debug module. Create an Express.js-powered REST API back end from scratch!

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Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos has 17+ years in IT and development. His passions include REST architecture, Agile development methodology, and JS.

Why Music Royalties Are an Attractive Asset Class

In the current market environment of low yields and interest rates, music royalties are an increasingly attractive asset class. Their low correlation with macroeconomic performance and high income potential have resulted in more investors taking notice of their financial potential.

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Jimmy Stone

Jimmy Stone

Jimmy has executed and evaluated $1+ billion in debt, equity, and M&A transactions across a range of industries.

Using the Radical Candor Framework for Effective Engineering Management

One tool that managers can consider adding to their management skill set is a practice called Radical Candor. Radical Candor is the ability to care emotionally about the engineer as an individual and valued contributor, while also expressing honesty concerning their efforts and results achieved by those efforts.

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Peter Varhol

Peter Varhol

Peter is a technologist and editor on staff at Toptal, and speaks on software development, testing, and DevOps at technical conferences worldwide.

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