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Why Should Product Managers Invest in Sales Enablement?
Early investment in sales enablement results in a strong, motivated, engaged and supportive team that drives product success.
Laurie Harvey
Laurie is a growth product manager who turns ideas into results. She creates multi-million-dollar businesses in secure network and cloud service delivery.
Climbing the IoT Value Chain
Impactful applications of IoT are certain to emerge in the near future. We explore how finance professionals should think of the value it can generate for their business by creating a thought framework.
Peter Wells
Peter is a former investment banker and served as the COO of a marketing software startup. He enjoys working with high-growth companies.
Benchmarking A Node.js Promise
You can just write sequentially executed code in JavaScript, but should you?
In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Omar Waleed tests the widespread Node.js belief that synchronous code degrades performance and is, in a sense, just plain evil. Is this really true?
Omar Waleed
Omar is a full-stack developer and architect with over 4 years of experience working with companies of varying sizes.
Mobile UX Design Principles
Designers only have a few seconds to catch the attention of mobile users before they abandon an app or site. Following established mobile UX design principles creates a better overall user experience.
Cameron Chapman
Cameron comes from a design background and is the author of two web design books: Color for Web Design and The Smashing Idea Book.
Personalized UX and the Power of Design and Emotion
Personalization is all about communicating a message aimed directly at the individual user. Emotional design focuses on the overall emotional impact of design choices, including those that involve personalization. Combining the personal and the emotional is where the real magic happens.
Chris Constandse
Chris is a senior UX/UI designer whose expertise is recognized by various exclusive networks including the InVision Design Leadership Forum.
How to Implement T9 Search in iOS
T9 predictive text has been around for ages, and it lost relevance with the advent of modern smartphones. However, T9 can still be a useful addition to certain types of apps on iOS.
In this article, Toptal Swift Developer George Vashakidze explains why T9 can still be useful and practical, and how you can add it to your next iOS app.
George Vashakidze
George is an extremely motivated and hardworking mobile developer with extensive experience working with iOS and Android.
Selecting the Right Valuation Method for Pre-IPO Startups
Valuation for mature late-stage startups can be tricky: Too developed for guestimate methods, yet still without the depth of data offered by public market companies.
Bertrand Deleuse
Bertrand is a finance veteran and startup advisor, with a 20-year track record advising 50+ clients on $16 billion of deals.
The Value of User Testing With Prototypes
User testing, often confused with usability testing, is an overarching term to describe testing which helps validate the need for a product. When used with prototypes and the right testing tools, it can help save a product from failure.
Gabriel Kirmaier
Gabriel is a UX/UI designer who creates data-driven solutions for web and mobile platforms. He has worked with companies such as Stripe and Goodleap, and his book UX Bites was named “Best New Release” in the design category on Amazon.
How to Build a React Native QR Scanner: An RNCamera Tutorial
Cross-platform mobile apps are increasingly being built with React Native. But how can you scan for QR codes and augment the user’s camera view when they’re present?
Bassam Seif
Having founded multiple startups and worked with Microsoft, Bassam specializes in highly scalable, full-stack JavaScript applications.
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