Initiator Creator - Issue #120

​By Saurabh Y. // 25 February 2023

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Developer

​Story of Rust: How Rust went from a side project to the world's most-loved programming language - Technology Review

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

​Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything - Substack

Manifest v3 may have taken some of the juice out of browser extensions, but I think there is still plenty left in the tank.

​How to avoid tricky async state manager pitfalls in React - Evil Martians

Local-first approach for building web apps is gaining more and more popularity. Most of these databases provide async APIs, and that make a big difference with our React apps.

​AutoAnimate - Add motion to your apps with a single line of code - Formkit

AutoAnimate is a zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Solid, Vue, Svelte, or any other JavaScript application.

​React Libraries for 2023 - Robin Wieruch

Developers coming from other programming languages or libraries/frameworks often have a hard time figuring out all the libraries for creating web applications with React.

Designer

​Finding the Perfect Word Isn’t the Job: Evolve Copy into Language With UX Writing - Medium

Quick copy changes will only get you so far and, if you’re not focused on the overall goals, your flows or landing pages can end up looking like a smorgasbord of very wrong puzzle pieces all trying to fit together.

​“Make it easier” is not a product strategy - UX Collective

Why are the products still so frustrating to use? Because “make it easier” is only a starting point, and when teams stop there, they set themselves up to fail.

​Use Good Prototype Specifications to Empower Team Collaboration - NN/g

Three types of prototype specifications help explain how a design looks and is implemented. Clear prototype specifications empower team collaboration and lower communication costs.

​From type to logotype - Google Font

If you look around, you’ll see there are 1000s of logos that all use the same (or very similar) typefaces. And yet, each logo is unique to its brand, thanks to unique design details and the context they’re placed in.

​5 Junior UX writer mistakes and how to avoid them - Medium

You can get a lot of information about UX writing from YouTube videos and online articles, but no amount of reading and watching them is going to make you a professional.

Entrepreneur

​What Does It Mean to Be Strategic? - Every

Simply put, being strategic means that the outcomes produced by our actions are not at odds with our intentions.

​Product Manager Archetype - NN/g

Product managers share common goals, strengths, activities, and skill sets. Awareness of these commonalities helps designers figure out how to best collaborate with product managers on Agile teams.

​The Right Problem, The Wrong Way To Fix It: Five Lessons On Building A Company From Founder Jason Ray - OpenView

his company’s seemingly-overnight success is only a fragment of the story—perhaps even the least compelling part.

​How to Size a Market in 30 minutes - Bling Capital

Venture investors will often ask a founder the potential size of their startup. A core part of answering this question has to do with market size, commonly known as total addressable market

​27 Tips and Tricks for Successful Field User Research - NN/g

Leave your office and go where the users are. Learn about common pitfalls and how to avoid them from our experience.

Marketer

​Psychographic Marketing - Hotjar

Conventional wisdom says you can get to know your target audience by studying demographics such as age, ethnicity, and education. A few marketers go beyond that by taking psychographics criteria into consideration, such as attitudes, values, and desires.

​Stop focusing on the wrong channels - Better Marekting

There are four common mistakes when it comes to finding the right channels.

​Keyword Mapping. A Practical Guide for the Curious - Ahrefs

Deciding whether a keyword should be targeted by a separate page or clustered with other keywords is a common problem in SEO. Keyword mapping is a process aimed at solving this.

​How to Beat Your Competition at Search - Grow & Convert

“Underdog SEO” strategy that we use to help underdogs in various categories compete for rankings with the “big guys.”

​Sales compensation model is the key to unlock product-led growth - Palette

For companies looking to introduce product-led growth (PLG) principles to their go-to-market strategy, or to completely transition to PLG, revamping sales compensation structures is essential in order to be successful.

Interesting Read

​Learning, Fast and Slow: Do Intensive Learning Projects Work Better Than Slow Ones? - Scott H. Young

when material is presented repeatedly, spread out over time, it results in enhanced memory compared to repeated presentations in short succession.

​The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you - Ness labs

Once you step away from moral judgement and focus on its most basic definition, laziness is simply the disinclination to use energy. And being lazy can actually have advantages — many of them backed by scientific research.

​One Question to Ask Yourself to Know Your Future - Nir and Far

The trouble is that too many of us spend too much time distracted rather than focused on the things that matter. Wasting time on distractions, which we’ll later regret, leads to a life filled with missed opportunities.

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