Toptal Blog

The Toptal Blog is the top hub for developers, designers, finance experts, executives, and entrepreneurs, featuring key technology updates, tutorials, freelancer resources, and management insights.

Share
Share
Toptal core team members share their experience, expertise, and perspectives on the Toptal Edge Blog

Featured in

World-class articles, delivered weekly.

Subscription implies consent to our privacy policy

All Together Now: An Overview of Inclusive Design

Using the inclusive design process helps designers consider a broad cross-section of human perspectives, abilities, and backgrounds to create products that make everyone feel included.

7 minute readContinue Reading
Fanni Csincsak

Fanni Csincsak

Fanni is a designer with a master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience. She designs products that focus on both user and business goals.

Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: When to Go Native?

Writing multiple native applications for different mobile platforms can be a daunting task, but taking a non-native approach comes with pitfalls of its own.

In this article, Toptal Mobile Developer Joel Frank outlines the concept of Write Once, Deploy Everywhere (WODE) and explains how to choose the right development path for your project.

13 minute readContinue Reading
Joel Frank

Joel Frank

Joel is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience. He brings application writing experience from Ipsy, Raytheon, and multiple independent ventures.

The Challenges of Initial Market Entry

Developing a market entry strategy is critical to any product. What might seem like an overnight success is a result of months and years of planning and hard work. But even the most prepared product managers face the challenges of entering a new market.

12 minute readContinue Reading
Allan Milne Lees

Allan Milne Lees

Allan has over 25 years of experience in financial services, pharma, cyber-security, telecommunications, mobile apps, and biotech.

How to Approach Financial Data Visualization

Looking to make your financial models more effective with better data visualization? Design principles can be effective tools in corporate decision-making.

8 minute readContinue Reading
Archil Lursmanashvili (FMVA)

Archil Lursmanashvili (FMVA)

Archil is the deputy CFO of Silk Road Group. He joined Toptal to help SMEs develop financial models as a tool for raising financing.

Every year, popular UX design trends emerge and become popular because they provide better user experiences. This retrospective explores some of the most interesting and effective ones from 2019.

12 minute readContinue Reading
Miklos Philips

Miklos Philips

Miklos is a lead UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.

Language Server Protocol Tutorial: From VSCode to Vim

The main artifact of all your work is most likely plain text files. So why don’t you use Notepad to create them? Find out how the Language Server Protocol can transform text editors into code editors, without coupling.

11 minute readContinue Reading
Jeremy Greer

Jeremy Greer

An active open source contributor, Jeremy specializes in advanced JavaScript. He believes in clean code, testing, and reading the manual.

Pay in, Pay out: How to Create a Marketplace

Shopping online is more convenient than ever, so how do you create an online marketplace tailored to cater to your specific needs?

In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Konrad Gadzinowski explores marketplace business models and payment methods for both regional and global services.

13 minute readContinue Reading
Konrad Gadzinowski

Konrad Gadzinowski

Konrad is a skilled software engineer who has delivered many web and mobile applications. He is a full-stack developer focusing on JavaScript.

Mini Tutorial – Leveraging Figma’s Features for the Entire Design Process

Can one program handle the entire digital product design process? Learn how Figma, a web-based interface design tool, promotes collaboration, iteration, and documentation throughout the design process.

8 minute readContinue Reading
Manuele Capacci

Manuele Capacci

Manuele is a product designer who believes that great attention to UX and a design-thinking approach are at the core of successful projects.

Unwrapping the Mysteries of Brand Valuation

Brand value is the value a business can sell an item above the price that the supply/demand curve dictates. This value is embedded into the company’s share price but can be uncovered using PEG analysis.

10 minute readContinue Reading
Greg Barasia, CFA

Greg Barasia, CFA

Greg has executed over $20 billion of transactions from seed-stage venture investments to large corporate buyouts.

Most-read Articles

World-class articles, delivered weekly.

Subscription implies consent to our privacy policy

Join the Toptal® community.