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Designing Remote Ideation Workshops for Startups

Remote ideation workshops help companies address business-related problems through creative exercises that prioritize speed, teamwork, and innovative thinking.

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Guoming Xu

Guoming is a UX designer who specializes in user research, digital strategy, and interaction design. He helps B2B and B2C startups build innovative web experiences and SaaS apps.

Minimalist UX Design for Healthier Smartphone Engagement

It’s easy to waste too much time staring at our smartphones, but minimalist UX design can help users build healthier engagement habits.

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Florence Dairo

Florence is a senior product designer who has developed mobile applications for global financial services clients, including Carbon, Amplified Payment Systems, and Open Banking Nigeria.

Ensemble Methods: The Kaggle Machine Learning Champion

Two heads are better than one. This proverb describes the concept behind ensemble methods in machine learning. Let’s examine why ensembles dominate ML competitions and what makes them so powerful.

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Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Juan is a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on AI, NLP, and social networks. He has more than a decade of data science experience and he’s published papers at ML conferences, including SPIRE and ICCS.

Treating Remote Employees Fairly in a Hybrid Workplace

Unconsciously favoring in-office employees—also called distance bias—can make top talent quit. Toptal Insights spoke with experts at PwC, Gartner, and more about how to protect your business.

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Lauren Drell

A business communications expert, Drell has worked with Global 500 and Fortune 500 companies including Unilever and R.R. Donnelley & Sons.

Keep It Tasteful: A Guide to Food App Design

The pandemic has intensified the demand for online food ordering, and businesses are rushing to meet the need. With food apps increasing in popularity, providing an exceptional user experience is critical.

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Pili Fernandez Davila

Pili is a UX, UI, and product designer who has led teams at Clearco and Compass Digital Labs. At Compass, she worked on the Thrive app, which facilitates ordering from cafes in office buildings. She is an Associate Professor of Brand Design at Universidad Anáhuac in Huixquilucan, Mexico.

Using RTK Query in React Apps With Redux Toolkit

RTK Query, part of the Redux Toolkit, provides powerful data-fetching and caching capabilities similar to React Query. This article highlights the functionalities of RTK Query and demonstrates its use in real-life scenarios, complete with detailed code examples.

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Gurami Dagundaridze

Gurami is a full-stack developer with experience implementing applications in the finance, healthcare, gaming, and entertainment industries. He has worked with a variety of technologies, including React, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and GraphQL. As a senior front-end engineer at the Bank of Georgia, he led a team that developed a workflow management system, using technologies like Angular and HTML5 and creating a custom UI kit to extend the Semantic UI framework.

The New Trend in UI Design: An Overview of Neumorphism

Neumorphic design is a visual trend that has gained traction with UI/UX designers and become a popular aesthetic choice for contemporary software, websites, and mobile apps.

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Kayode Osinusi

Kayode is a designer with extensive experience leading creative teams and helping startups build and launch successful digital products in industries such as e-commerce, finance, and entertainment.

How to Build a Basic Python Cash Flow Model for a Loan

Python has taken the financial programming world by storm, and demand for management consultants who can use it is soaring. Here, a Toptal finance professional and Python expert shows beginners how to build a loan payment cash flow model with Python.

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Miklos Lukacs, CFA

Miklos is an expert in cash flow modeling and Python programming, and has worked for Morgan Stanley and DBRS Morningstar. He is a Toptal management consultant and the director of the structured finance consulting company Pylink Ltd.

Graph Data Science With Python/NetworkX

Data inundates us like never before—how can we hope to analyze it? Graphs (networks, not bar graphs) provide an elegant approach. Find out how to start with the Python NetworkX library to describe, visualize, and analyze “graph theory” datasets.

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Federico Albanese

Federico is a developer and data scientist who has worked at Facebook, where he made machine learning model predictions. He is a Python expert and a university lecturer. His PhD research pertains to graph machine learning.