$3.6 billion bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency

A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn’t work.

Color Picker with Ruby on Rails 6, Stimulus and Webpacker

A tutorial to integrate a Javascript color picker library Pickr, with Ruby on Rails 6.0, StimulusJS, and Webpacker.

Library of design inspiration examples & user flows from web apps • Nicely

Browse a curated design library of web app screens, UI components and User flows from top SaaS web apps, inspiring product teams from leading companies.

How Crypto’s Original Bubble Boy Rode Ethereum And Is Now Pulling The Strings Of The DeFi Boom

Now he’s pulling the strings, and raking in hundreds of millions, from a blockchain rage called DeFi, which promotes the fantasy of democratized financial services.

Intelligent System Security

We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.

A step by step guide to scenario mapping - UXM

Scenario mapping is a really quick, easy and dare I say it even fun way to collaboratively create, discuss and communicate user scenarios. Find out how to go about creating scenario maps and why they’re so damn useful in the first place.

Topic Modeling in Python | Toptal

Topic modeling can bring NLP to the next level. Here’s how.

Micromanipulation: The Covert Tactic That Narcissists Use in Arguments to Reassert Control

Here’s how to recognize its damaging effects.

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The LA Rams are winners in football. They’re ‘loss leaders’ in economics

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(PDF) Text is not the enemy: How illiterates' use their mobile phones

PDF | Despite 800 million illiterate people worldwide little research has aimed at understanding how they use and appropriate mobile phones. We... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2021 | PortSwigger Research

Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year

Why I changed my mind about advertising | The Sample blog

I used to be very anti-advertising. Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads.

With Coffee, It Pays to Be a Homebody

Elevate everything.

The 4 Main Types of Intellectual Property and Related Costs

There are four primary ways that businesses can protect their intellectual property (IP) assets: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

How Artists Use Psychology to Price a Painting

Driven by buyers' need for consistency and explanation, the most popular pricing method uses a surprisingly simple formula based on size.

How to Find Seed Keywords and Explore Topic Clusters

Creating a short list of seed keywords is fundamental to search engine optimization, content marketing, and pay-per-click advertising. But for some marketers, the task of identifying seed keywords isn't clear.

The Accidental Invention of Bubble Wrap

Two inventors turned a failed experiment into an irresistibly poppable product that revolutionized the shipping industry

Breaking Bad became one of the best TV shows ever by borrowing a trick from Shakespeare

The show balanced improvisation and careful planning thanks to its overarching structure.

8 Principles for Building a High-Performance Culture | The Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog

Leadership Now is a leading source for leadership development and analysis. We believe that anyone can make a difference by leading from where they are.

How to Build an Ecommerce Keyword List

Keywords are an important building block for ecommerce marketing. Developing and maintaining a keyword list may help an ecommerce business understand shoppers and do a better job of marketing to them. In the context of search engine optimization, searchers' words or phrases…

Five Reasons to Sell End-to-End Products in Early Markets by @ttunguz

In early and developing markets, selling complete products is often a superior go to market strategy, rather than selling an innovation in a layer in the stack. This is true for five reasons. First, for early customers to generate value from a novel technology, that technology…

What might Amazon’s six-page narrative structure look like?

If you want to move to a Jeff Bezos–style executive meeting without PowerPoint, with a six-page narrative memo, you mustn't forget the narrative. Here's why

Shopify and the Power of Platforms

It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.

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The 87 Most Essential Tools For Data-Driven Product Management

Like CEOs, data-driven product managers need a variety of different tools, skills, and capabilities. Here's the tools product managers need to succeed.

The Tribal Network Effect (nfx #15)

Today, we’re sharing the newest social nfx we've identified—the 15th type of network effect: Tribal Network Effects.

18 Cognitive Bias Examples Show Why Mental Mistakes Get Made

Here are 18 of the most common mental mistakes in business and investing. Make sure to learn from these cognitive bias examples to make better decisions.

Heart of Mold

Why we’re obsessed with heart-shaped foods around Valentine’s Day—especially the suddenly ubiquitous heart-shaped pizza.

Filmmaking Process

From sequence to shot to frame, explore our studio pipeline.

In a world gone digital, Moleskine still believes in the power of paper

"Paper is not going away, it's not going anywhere," CEO Daniela Riccardi said. Here's how she's keeping it relevant for consumers.

The economics of Spotify

Spotify’s recent Joe Rogan controversy has also deepened a rift between the platform and artists over pay.

The Not-so-Sexy SQL Concepts to Make You Stand Out

Databases are the houses of our data and data scientists HAVE TO HAVE A KEY! In this article, I discuss some lesser known concepts of SQL that data scientists do not familiarize themselves with.

9 Types of Influencer Marketing Campaigns

How, exactly, should ecommerce marketers use influencers? Blog posts, social media, videos, other? We explain nine types of proven campaigns.

359 Mobile ‘Product Lists’ Examples – Baymard Institute

Storming Reddit's Moat

A Guide to Reddit, Its Key Competitive Advantages, and How to Unbundle It

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What Color Is This? | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded

We need to know what colors our merch is. But because downstream users include many different people and algorithms, we need to describe colors as a hierarch...

A Survey of Explore and Exploit Interfaces

Some of the most popular apps today are highly personalized — everyone sees content tailored to them. This is typically powered with…

The Role of Doubt in Design

When to ask questions, and when to have answers

The secret to happy UX, according to a legendary game designer - Fast Company

The famous rhythm game Lumines is back, and it's a reminder of where things went wrong.

15 reasons why grid approach will improve your design

Master the use of grids and do wonders with your designs.

350 Mobile ‘Search Results’ Examples – Baymard Institute

How to Use Tooltips as Microinteractions

They’re generally very helpful, clear-cut in their communication, and unobtrusive, so users can do what the tooltips suggest without running into any impediment.Looked at in this way, your average tooltip is easily a micro interaction, as it helps users achieve a single task or…

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)

A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics

945 ‘Product List’ Design Examples – Baymard Institute

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Free UX tools - UXM

Over 50 great free UX tools, including tools to help with prototyping, design, user research, user testing, surveys, card sorting, annotating, screen grabbing, sitemapping, analytics and accessibility.

233 Mobile ‘Billing Address’ Examples – Baymard Institute

Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Journal - Boarding Pass / Fail

This is the actual boarding pass I got from Delta. It's a nightmare. Note all the random alignment...