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Jun 27, 2024 | toptal.com | Micah Bowers Verified |Micah Bowers

Social media thrives on visual appeal. The look of your company’s posts is crucial in differentiating your brand from competitors and capturing audience attention. Anecdotally, you know this to be true from countless hours spent scanning your own social feeds—the scrolling doesn’t stop until an image attracts your eye. Your audience behaves the same way.

Oct 17, 2023 | toptal.com | Micah Bowers Verified |Micah Bowers

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can seem like a magic genie. So perhaps it’s no surprise that people use it like one—by describing their “wishes” in natural language, using text prompts. After all, what user interface could be more flexible and powerful than simply telling software what you want from it? As it turns out, so-called “natural language” still causes serious usability problems.

Sep 18, 2023 | toptal.com | Micah Bowers |Bridget Boyle

Toptal is a global network of leading consultants and talented innovators. Leverage our people’s industry insights and talent’s agile capabilities to solve the now, optimize for the next, and build healthcare solutions beyond borders. Get a Consultation NowTrusted By Leading Industry BrandsI worked with Toptal for a number of years in three different companies, and have always had phenomenal results. Bringing them to the University was just a natural extension of my experience with them.

May 31, 2023 | toptal.com | Scott LeeVerified |Scott Lee

More than 20 years ago, tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz wrote that a good product manager is the CEO of the product. Many product managers disagree with this analogy, but it has some truth. Senior product managers often form strong relationships with the C-suite as they navigate transitional states, undefined objectives, and competing stakeholders. A product manager’s knack for clarity is pivotal in times of change when CEOs are more vulnerable.

May 16, 2023 | toptal.com | Christopher Holloway