Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 34

Initiator Creator - Issue #34

​By Saurabh Y. // 10 October 2020

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Developer

​The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers - CSS-Tricks

Front-end development is at the intersection of art and logic. A cross of business and expression. Both left and right brain. A cocktail of design and nerdery.

​Cloudflare launches Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) for WordPress - Coywolf

Cloudflare announced a new site speed optimization service called Automatic Platform Optimization. The service launched with support for WordPress, but it requires several steps to enable it for self-hosted sites.

​DevUtils.app - Developer Utilities for macOS - DevUtils

DevUtils helps you with your tiny daily tasks with just a single click. It works entirely offline and is open source.

​Octo CLI - Expose data from any database as web service - Github

Octo CLI makes the data available from any database as a web service on-demand, simplifying the process of building data-driven applications. It can reduce costs, improve accessibility and performance.

​Tailwind Play - An advanced online playground for Tailwind CSS - Tailwind

Tailwind Play, an advanced online playground for Tailwind CSS that lets you use all of Tailwind's build-time features directly in the browser.

Designer

​Behind the Scenes of Book Cover Design​ - Desk Magazine

Creating book covers is a dream design job. Many of us have it on our bucket list. Few of us find ourselves designing book covers full-time.

​The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex - Adobe

Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.

​Humans - Big pack of 3D characters for your next project - wannathis

Set of 80 different 3d characters. Easy to customize. With stylish outfits and various poses. Just drag and drop character you like in your project and start creating scene or make custom avatar.

​Do Website Policy Disclosure Pages Always Have To Be So Ugly?​ - Smashing Magazine

we’re going to look at four ways that web designers can contribute to getting more policy disclosure pages read and terms actually agreed to.

​29 of My Favorite Design Tools & Websites You’ve Never Heard of - UX Collective

This list is the cream of the crop — the most obscure, creative, unique, helpful or exceptional. Some are fun sites to be inspired from; others are tools and resources that will absolutely make you a better designer.

Entrepreneur

​The Most In-Demand Productivity Tool You Need​ - Medium

Most of the other productivity tools you don’t need, especially when finances are tough and subscriptions hurt your wallet.

​Startup Lessons I Needed to Learn First Hand (But Maybe You Don't) - Nancy hua

"When I stepped down as CEO in 2018, I wrote a post mortem and shared it privately with founder friends. . . .The company got acquired in 2019 and now I’m sharing the post mortem publicly." - Nancy Hua

​Walnut - Sales Demos For Sales Leaders - Walnut

Walnut empowers remote and inside sales leaders, to own their demos and to be outstanding storytellers without relying on back-end teams, such as product, r&d and design.

​6 Product-Led SaaS Onboarding Lessons with Examples - OpenView

An effective and efficient user onboarding flow for your SaaS product is the one thing you can get right to give new users a welcoming, customer-retaining experience.

Marketer

​A Framework for Understanding Customer Love - Medium

People talk about “customer love” a lot, but what does it actually mean? How do you know if you have it? Which numbers represent customer love?

​The SaaS Website Content You Need to Close Sales [Data] - Mike Sonders

"In this case study, I’ve analyzed the online searches of thousands of B2B SaaS buyers to uncover exactly what information they want when considering a SaaS purchase." - Mike Sonders

Interesting Read

​How to practice nuanced thinking and avoid polarized thinking - Ness Labs

Whether at an interpersonal level or at a broader scale, a lack of nuanced thinking can have a significant impact on our relationships. Instead of encouraging constructive debates, polarised thinking is a source of destructive conflict.

​How to take meeting notes​ - Substack

I’ve started taking extensive meeting notes as a part of my memory experiment. In four weeks, I trained myself to remember about 90-95% of everything that happens at a meeting.

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Outro

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