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Can Designers Make the Metaverse Less Awkward?

By Pam Nicholls

UX designer Pam Nicholls has created video games and augmented reality experiences for companies like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and DreamWorks Animation. Here she explores designing for the metaverse and reveals innovative ways to make the user experience more intuitive and accessible.

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SolidJS vs. React: The Go-to Guide

By Nathan Babcock

SolidJS is a blazing-fast framework that dodges virtual DOM manipulation. Let’s see how it compares to React, the industry standard, when it comes to components, performance, and developer productivity.

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Big Data Architecture for the Masses: A ksqlDB and Kubernetes Tutorial

By Dmitrii Bolotov

Today’s cloud building blocks empower any size team—even a lone engineer—to build big data solutions. Learn how to use open-source tools to create scalable architecture for your next project.

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Push Notification Best Practices: 7 Questions Designers Should Ask

By Shoaib Mahmud

Mobile app push notifications are powerful engagement tools, but they can be intrusive if not handled correctly. Don’t hit send on your push notification strategy before asking yourself these questions.

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The PRD Isn’t Dead: New Best Practices for Digital Product Development

By Milos Belcevic

For many years, there has been debate around the value of a PRD in digital product development. The issue is not *whether* one should be used, says product expert Milos Belcevic, but *how*.

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3 Essential Project Manager Skills and How to Hone Them

By Kata Török-Pál

Managing projects is largely about managing people. These three soft skills can help project managers build a strong team, gain trust, and create a positive culture.

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Better Digital Banking Through Data Analytics

By Mohamed Zarrugh

Banks haven’t seen the savings expected from the transition to digital products and services. A leading consultant for some of the largest US banks shares his step-by-step plan for using smarter customer data analytics to slash costs and improve customer satisfaction.

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Perfect Pizza: Using a Digital Customer Research Tool to Measure Taste

By Anna Shcherbakova

Customer research in the food sector is expensive and time-consuming. Here’s how one global pizza company used its own food-ordering app to get new levels of insight into its products—for free.

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Demystifying Debugging With React Developer Tools

By Teimur Gasanov

Browser console logging is a hassle. Discover how React Developer Tools and third-party libraries make inspecting components, states, and props and tracking rendering and performance so much easier.

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