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A Day in the Freelance Life: Getting to Know Toptal Designers

Are remote working and freelancing viable options for designers? We interview Toptal designers to discover how they’re forging freelance careers with meaningful work for high-impact global companies.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.

Discover the Benefits of Android Clean Architecture

It’s easy to get entangled in spaghetti code, fuzzy responsibilities, and opaque architecture. It is just as easy to write crisp, clear code that is just as easy to write, maintain, and update with a little forethought.

Join Toptal Android Developer Tomasz Czura as he guides you through the process and the reasoning behind creating clean architecture on Android.

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Tomasz Czura

Tomasz Czura

Tomasz (MCS) is an Android wizard and team lead. His favorite project has been doing the app and back-end of a hotel entertainment system.

Design With Precision: An Adobe XD Review

Great features and seamless integration with the Adobe ecosystem makes Adobe XD a powerful design tool that competes with industry favorites like Sketch and Figma.

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Lex Valishvili

Lex Valishvili

Lex is a human-centered designer with over 6 years of UX/UI, product design, and branding experience that provide clarity and get results.

Evaluating the Nature of Business Ethics in Practice

Using the 2016 Wells Fargo Banking Scandal as an example, this article dissects the situation according to the principles of the three classic ethical theorists: Plato, Kant, and Mill. It then offers some suggestions on how to improve ethics in business.

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Martin Kemeny

Martin Kemeny

Martin is an seasoned real estate and PE executive that has completed over $200m of projects and advised a range of Fortune 500 companies.

Pricing Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide

Pricing strategy is one of the most important functions that any business engages in. Prices are a foundational element of a company’s revenues—If managed carefully, they can generate high profits and consequently cash. But setting prices appropriately is tricky, and when mistakes are made, companies suffer.

In this article, Toptal Management Consultant Dalibor Pajic draws on his 15+ year career in corporate finance to outline seven practical examples of when pricing strategy plays a crucial role, with the aim of illustrating how pricing decisions can be approached in different situations. Pending

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Dalibor Pajic

Dalibor Pajic

Dalibor is a CFO with over 15 years of experience in corporate finance, investment management, pricing management, and business development.

Designing for Readability: A Guide to Web Typography (With Infographic)

There’s a lot to consider when choosing a typeface for a digital design. There may not be a formula but designers can use this guide to find and format the right font for a pleasant reading experience.

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Jordan DeVos

Jordan DeVos

Jordan’s expertise spans across brand strategy, service design, and UX. She works with organizations to help strengthen teams and innovate.

The Principles of Design (With Examples and Infographic)

Understanding the principles of design and how they interact is vital for both new and expert designers. Implementing them purposefully is key to creating visually appealing, functional designs.

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Adel Benzehda

Adel Benzehda

Adel is a UI/UX designer who helps teams turn complex technology into clear, usable products. He has worked with early-stage startups and partnered with teams at Airbnb, Colgate, Supercell, and a range of emerging AI-focused companies. His work centers on shaping practical, user-centered interfaces.

F# Tutorial: How to Build a Full-stack F# App

F# is a strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language with imperative, functional, and object-oriented programming methods.

In the first part of our F# tutorial series, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Shanglun Wang demonstrates how to get started and create a simple app using nothing but F#.

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Shanglun Wang

Shanglun Wang

Sean is a passionate polyglot: A full-stack wizard, sys admin, and data scientist. He’s also developed market intelligence software.

A Complete Guide on How to Seamlessly Take Over an Existing Project

As project managers, we are sometimes tasked with taking over a project in progress. In this guide, we will outline how to plan a project takeover and execute it flawlessly. Use the included project manager checklist for your upcoming projects.

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Luciano Castro

Luciano Castro

Luciano is a business-driven manager with over 15 years of experience as a CTO and CEO in multinational companies and startups.

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