
The Benefits of a Design System: Making Better Products, Faster
By Molham Bakir
Design systems increase collaboration, ensure consistency, and accelerate design and development cycles. Toptal product designer Molham Bakir lays out how—and shares insights and tips from his experience building them.
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Elevate Your E-commerce Journey With Animated UX Microinteractions
By Emily Adiseshiah
Toptal experts share their insights and best practices for designing motion effects that enhance e-commerce UX and increase conversions.
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Multilevel Menu Design Best Practices
By Andris Suipe
Navigation can be a UX minefield. Apply these guidelines to design intuitive multilevel menus that increase findability and offer a consistent experience across devices.
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Leveraging Fitts’ Law: User Interface Design Principles for E-commerce
By Alexandre Brito
Apply this midcentury mathematical law to e-commerce UI design and convert visitors into customers.
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Keep It Tasteful: A Guide to Food App Design
By Pili Fernandez Davila
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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Millennial Branding for a Boomer Product: A Branding Case Study
By Beatriz Garcia de Prado
Millennials are tough customers, especially for products they associate with their parents’ lifestyles. This branding case study shows how an old-school item can appeal to young adults in an authentic way.
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Paving the Path to Purchase: E-commerce UX Best Practices
By Micah Bowers
Mobile e-commerce may be the future, but desktop sites are digital gold mines. To engage shoppers, boost product value, and unlock more revenue, designers must master these e-commerce UX best practices.
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Machine Language – A Guide to Chatbot Terminology (with Infographic)
By Micah Bowers
Chatbots have unique abilities that humans don’t. When we regard them as tools, they provide business opportunities humans can’t. Unfortunately, when it comes to chatbot terminology, confusion reigns.
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Built To Convert – Landing Page Design Best Practices
By Cameron Chapman
Designers can create landing pages that convert better by following landing page design best practices such as keeping them simple, focusing on the CTA, keeping forms short, and other guidelines.
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