Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 29

Initiator Creator - Issue #29

​By Saurabh Y. // 5 September 2020

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Developer

​​​The most important soft skill of a tester - Medium

I see developers as the most important stakeholders for both test analysts and automation engineers, and so this article highlights four key diplomatic actions you should start doing immediately.

​​​11 Micro Frontends Frameworks You Should Know - ITNEXT

The idea of Micro Frontends is to break down the frontend monolith into smaller, more manageable pieces. Each team can own its own features end-to-end, and also integrate with other teams via APIs so that they can compose and manage pages and applications together.

​​​On web API versioning - Increment

A practical approach to understanding backward compatibility, versioning strategy, and how to strike a functional balance.

​​​Designing a JavaScript Plugin System​ - CSS-Tricks

WordPress has plugins. jQuery has plugins. Gatsby, Eleventy, and Vue do, too. Plugins are a common feature of libraries and frameworks, and for a good reason: they allow developers to add functionality, in a safe, scalable way.

Designer

​​How can you find time to design? 7 tips to own your time​ - UX Collective

"I want to share some tips that helped me gain some of my time back from the meetings overlords, and I hope they can help you too." - Jose Torre

​​​Figma Community: the Github for designers - UX Collective

An appreciation piece on how well-modelled the Figma Community feature is and how it can possibly change the way the world designs digitally

​​​The Design System Encyclopedia - Medium

A complete, visual encyclopedia of UI tokens, components, interaction patterns, and visualizations.

​​​Ground Rules for Web Animations - CSS-Tricks

When working with web animations, there are a few things that could go wrong like adding animations that serve no purpose, setting durations that are too long or too quick, or not using the right type of animation in the first place.

​​​Sidebar Webring - A collection of handpicked blog feeds focused on design - Sidebar

The Sidebar Webring is a collection of handpicked sites and blogs focused on the design and the web.

Entrepreneur

​​​Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing​​ - OpenView

freemium once again feels cutting edge. SaaS companies have gotten much smarter about when to apply a freemium model to their products—and how to do it. They also better understand how to measure the success of freemium and strategies to convert free users into paying customers

​​​How Successful Startups Avoid Selling To People Who Aren’t Buying - Medium

Selling any product is a mixture of art and science, but selling a new product with no track record from a company with no reputation — that requires a science all its own.

​​​P2 - Simple project coordination - WordPress

From the makers of WordPress, P2 is a new platform to communicate and collaborate without the complexity of larger project management or real-time messaging software.

​​​180+ OKR Examples Directory - SoapBox

Goals are some of the hardest things for leaders and ICs to come up with. That’s why we put together this curated list of over 180 goal and OKR examples, including contributions from high-performing teams at G2, GitLab, and Unbounce.

Marketer

​​​The Word of Mouth Coefficient - Reforge

How to systematically measure and drive Word of Mouth acquisition

​​​Find your email's Spam Assassin score - Taxi For Email

This handy tool from "Taxi For Email" allows you to check your emails before you send them for any words, images or code snippets that might impact your spam score.

Interesting Read

​​​The Oldest Cookbook in Korean Was Written by a Genius Noblewoman - Atlas Obscura

Lady Jo soon discovered the book was no ordinary compilation of family recipes. Instead, it was a centuries-old artefact credited as the first-ever cookbook in hangul, the Korean alphabet. Written by Lady Jang Gye-hyang around the year 1670.

​​​To design and develop an interactive globe - Stripe

Cartographers face unenviable trade-offs when making maps. They can either retain the shape of countries, but warp their size—or maintain the size of countries, but contort their shape. In preserving one aspect of our world, they distort another.

Community Submissions

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #29

If you like to contribute in the curation process or would like to suggest an article then kindly drop me a message at saurabh@initiatorcreator.com or DM me at @savydv​