Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 49

Initiator Creator - Issue #49

​By Saurabh Y. // 20 February 2021

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Developer

​GitHub Skyline - Github

View a 3D model of your GitHub contribution graph as a city skyline instead of the 'green tiles'.

​The Google AI team announces the release of TensorFlow 3D - Google Blog

A set of training and evaluation pipelines for state-of-the-art 3D semantic segmentation, object detection and instance segmentation, with support for distributed training.

​Github1s - One second to read GitHub code with VS Code - Github1s

Just add 1s after github and press Enter in the browser address bar for any repository you want to read.

​How to audit Core Web Vitals - SeachEngineLand

A step-by-step process to identify problems and prioritize fixes ahead of the Page Experience Update.

​Front-of-the-front-end and back-of-the-front-end web development - Brad Frost

Succinct way brad has framed the split is that a front-of-the-front-end developer determines the look and feel of a button, while a back-of-the-front-end developer determines what happens when that button is clicked.

Designer

​Building better products with a design token pipeline - UX Collective

Design tokens are an integral part of any design system. They bridge the gap between core values (brand colors, typography, etc.) and components. But before we look into how they help, let’s have a look at the problem we are trying to solve.

​ANDY WORKS - No More Boring Apps - Andy Works

Simple, focused apps like weather and calculator that use bold type, graphics and animation to drive one point home: No more boring apps.

​Quantifying UX Improvements: A Case Study - NN/g

A research-driven overhaul of a metal and woodworking machinery B2B site’s information architecture resulted in an 85% improvement of findability.

​What is Emotional Design? - Interaction Design

As a designer, you focus on users’ needs in their interactions with your products or services. It’s logical that the functionality you design should help them achieve their goals as efficiently and effectively as possible. But you also have to focus on their responses, which are naturally emotional.

​How to deal with designers in 10 easy steps - UX Collective

Follow these 10 steps, and you’ll have a bunch of quietly sitting designers, happily waiting to beautify things for you.

Entrepreneur

​The Ultimate Guide to Making Ideas Happen - Unmistakable Creative

Have you ever wondered why Some Creative People Are so good at Making Ideas Happen? Some people say: "I'm going to write a book". They announce the books they're going to write, the podcasts they plan to start, etc. They forget that nobody gives a shit what you're going to start. All that counts is what you finish.

​How Focusing on Many Fronts Made a $6k MRR Business Shut Down - Falory

If you are interested in the no-code movement, you’ve probably heard Ben Tossell’s name. But today we’re not here to talk about Makerpad, one of the leading communities for no-coders, but about Ben’s previous project: NewCo. Let see what went wrong, what were the lessons learned, and how it led to his success afterward.

​Hubspot Hit a Wall with Content Marketing. So They Bought The Hustle -Growth Content

Hubspot spun out certifications, created a network of inbound marketing agencies, built out marketing automation, and a CRM. . .And then there wasn’t much left. They kept educating and educating until all that’s left were shrug emojis.

​The Passion Economy and the Future of Work - a16z

Gig work isn’t going anywhere—but there are now more ways to capitalize on creativity. Users can now build audiences at scale and turn their passions into livelihoods, whether that’s playing video games or producing video content. This has huge implications for entrepreneurship and what we’ll think of as a “job” in the future.

​Stop asking your users what they want - UX Collective

Interviews are simple to run, but it can be easy to mess them up and ask the wrong questions. A common mistake is to ask your interviewee to come up with a solution with you. This is wrong. What you’re doing is trying to understand them so that your team can make something for them.

Marketer

​How to Interview Someone for an Article - Animalz

Animalz's resident interviewing expertWhitney Rhodes shared four simple strategies—covering research, interviewing, writing and publication—to help you interview someone for your next article.

​How Headspace Attracts 8 Million Leads Per Year Through Content Clusters - Nicolas Forero

This article is a breakdown of Headspace's content strategy to land over 270.000 links across the web, rank for more than 100.000 keywords, and have more than 66 million signed users.

​How to Do a Content Audit (the Strategic Way) - Animalz

To a point. Traffic to older content naturally decays. Without a strategy in place, early results (if they ever happen) soon fade to nothing. To complicate matters, blogs can easily become so crowded that it’s difficult to stay on top of every single article. Enter the content audit.

Interesting Read

​8 questions we think should be answered before regulating technology - Atlassian

It is essential that the conversation around tech regulation needs a consistent approach. It requires a guiding framework that takes into account the positive contributions the tech sector has made to society, as well as the legitimate concerns of citizens, businesses, and governments.

​The World's Most Searched Consumer Brands - Visual Capitalist

This graphic from Business Financing compiles 12 months of data from the Google Keyword Planner and other sources, to uncover the world’s most searched consumer brands.

​How to draw comics when you can’t actually draw - Medium

You can’t draw and you’re not funny, but you want to draw comics. Well, great news, you don’t have to be able to draw, nor be particularly funny in order to draw comics. Here's how.

Community Submissions

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​Audiblogs – Listen to any web article in your podcast player​

Audiblogs lets you listen to any web article in your podcast player in an Audible-like voice. Use it to "read" while you exercise, cook, do house chores, etc.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #49

This issue is sponsored by Safetywing. Safetywing is global health insurance for remote workers and digital nomads.

If you value Initiator Creator, feel free to forward this copy to your friends. Suggestions or comments? Hit reply or DM me at @ICforpreneurs​

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