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Safe by Design: An Overview of UX Security

Interface designers: A disregard for UX security places users at risk—financially, professionally, and emotionally. Learn why security is a crucial aspect of interface design.

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Mayank Sharma

Mayank Sharma

Mayank specializes in creating user-centered designs and translating complex systems into beautiful web and mobile experiences.

Human vs. Machine: The Next Frontier of Wealth Management

Since the introduction of index funds in the 1970s, the investment management industry has embraced the use of software to enhance its decision-making. With robo-advisors reaching further prominence, will machines replace humans in the world of wealth management?

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Ankur Chandra

Ankur Chandra

Ankur is an experienced financial modeler with deep expertise in the solar power, airline, and pharmaceutical industries.

The best UI trends are visually appealing while improving the usefulness and overall UX of a digital product. 2019 introduced some amazing UI design trends that will continue to be seen through 2020.

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Olha Bahaieva

Olha Bahaieva

Olha has won multiple international design competitions and focuses on user-centered design in UX/UI and branding.

Timestamp Truncation: A Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Tale

Tests should keep apps from being flaky. But tests themselves can become flaky—even the most straightforward ones. Here’s how we dove into a problematic test on a PostgreSQL-backed Rails app, and what we uncovered.

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Maciek Rząsa

Maciek Rząsa

A knowledge-sharing advocate, engineer, and Scrum Master, Maciek’s into distributed systems, NLP, and writing software that matters.

A Complete List of Project Management Conferences 2020

The only project management conference list you will ever need. This list contains all the information you might need when picking a conference including insights about the conference, locations, and ticket prices.

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Vytas Butkus

Vytas Butkus

Vytas is a professional project and product manager leading products and projects in education, 3D graphics, eCommerce, and adtech.

A New Brand With an Edge

Today is an exciting day at Toptal: We are announcing a new logo to complete our new brand!

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Taso Du Val

Taso Du Val

As CEO, Taso has led Toptal to become the largest high-skilled, on-demand talent network in the world. He serves on the board of multiple organizations, advising on talent strategy and innovation, and has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Oxford on talent management and entrepreneurship.

Imperfect Harmony: An Overview of SoundCloud vs. Spotify

Not many industries have undergone the same level of transformation as the music industry - technology has changed every facet of the industry. File streaming has been nothing short of a revolution. What can be learned from Spotify vs. SoundCloud?

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Natasha Ketabchi

Natasha Ketabchi

Natasha transitioned to venture capital after a career in banking built in prestigious firms such as JPMorgan and ESM.

Semi-supervised Image Classification With Unlabeled Data

Supervised learning is the key to computer vision and deep learning. However, what happens when you don’t have access to large, human-labeled datasets?

In this article, Toptal Computer Vision Developer Urwa Muaz demonstrates the potential of semi-supervised image classification using unlabeled datasets.

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Urwa Muaz

Urwa Muaz

Urwa is a Fulbright scholar and data science graduate from NYU. He loves leveraging machine learning to solve practical problems.

Are Million-dollar Markets Better Than Billion-dollar Markets?

Entrepreneurs have been hardcoded to aim at billion-dollar sized markets with their solutions. However, such lucrative markets will appeal to many others and thus, are hard to succeed in. Going after smaller market sizes may be the more logical path to success.

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Aaron Chockla

Aaron Chockla

An award-winning entrepreneur and active venture capital investor, Aaron helps companies raise capital, scale operations, and strategize.

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