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How to Use Your Product Management Experience to Ride the AI Wave

Organizations are investing in AI initiatives and seeking product experts to lead them. Here’s how you can leverage diverse industry experience and capitalize on the rising demand for product managers in AI.

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Adrian Gonzalez

Adrian is an AI and ML specialist who has held multiple roles in product and project management and consulting. He has taught at MIT and regularly lectures at the university level on AI project management, ethics, and big data.

Helping AI See Clearly: A Dashboard Design Case Study

In this dashboard design case study, Toptal UI expert Fellype Silva describes how he built a user interface that improved the image recognition capabilities of automated AI systems.

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Fellype Silva

Fellype is an experienced digital product designer who specializes in user interfaces. His user-focused designs support the business needs of multiple clients, including a market research firm, a pediatric mental health app developer, a real estate marketing startup, and a venture capital studio.

The Shadow Pandemic: Ransomware’s Present and Future Dangers for Corporations

The fight against ransomware can’t be left to government or law enforcement agencies alone. Corporate leaders must pitch in—to protect their own companies and the global economy.

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Peter Matuszak

Peter Matuszak is Toptal’s Senior Writer for Business. A former investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and policy advisor to multiple governmental agencies and officials, he now writes about tech, finance, and the future of work for Toptal Insights.

Modeling an Asset Class: Why Wall Street May Be in the Single-family Rental Market for Keeps

Wall Street has its eye on the single-family rental market. A convergence of rising home prices, changing rental preferences, and advancing technology is fueling the boom.

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Hudson Cashdan

Hudson is a management consultant with a decade of experience organizing and investing in single-family housing funds. He has worked as a hedge fund equity analyst, portfolio manager, and startup advisor, and has deep expertise in financial modeling and forecasting.

Hybrid Office Design: Ideas From a Global Leader in Workplace Architecture

Real-world examples from Gensler, the architecture and design firm known for creating innovative workspaces for Ford, Verizon, and LinkedIn.

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Sunny Gold

Sunny is the Lead Editor for Toptal Insights, where she covers business, tech, healthcare, leadership, and the future of work. A veteran journalist, Sunny has held editorial positions at some of the largest and most well-known media companies in the US, including Condé Nast, Hearst, and Bonnier.

Delight Users With These Mobile App Design Best Practices

Applying best practices—such as streamlining onboarding, implementing UI elements consistently, and communicating errors—will ensure your mobile product delivers an optimal experience and exceeds user expectations.

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Damola Taiwo

Damola is a senior UI/UX designer with experience creating digital products for such clients as fintech company e-Finance, equipment leasing firm Aquila Leasing, and music-streaming platform MyMusic. Previously, he led a creative agency, where he delivered projects for clients across multiple verticals for governments, airlines, financial institutions, entertainment companies, tech firms, and startups.

How to Approach SVG Animations in CSS

Animations make websites look more polished and exciting, and help improve user experience. Explore how the combined potential of SVG and CSS can be leveraged to create animations without relying on external libraries.

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Filip Defar

Filip is a web developer with expertise in highly interactive front-end applications. He helped build data visualizations for several BI products while working for companies such as AlignAlytics and Captario.

Remote Solutions for Effective Agile Retrospectives

Leading effective remote retrospectives can be challenging. These videoconferencing best practices will help you run successful retros whether your teams are remote or in-house.

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Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart is a project expert and certified Agile coach with more than 25 years of experience consulting on and managing projects for companies, including JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity Investments. He has been a PMP and CAPM instructor for more than 12 years.

Navigation can be a UX minefield. Apply these guidelines to design intuitive multilevel menus that increase findability and offer a consistent experience across devices.

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Andris Suipe

Andris is a Google and UXQB-certified design professional with a decade of experience in healthcare, fintech, data recovery, insurance, and other industries. He’s designed products for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac platforms.