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If you’re new to the space, one of the most challenging things to figure out is who you should and shouldn’t listen to on Crypto Twitter. This thread attempts to provide a little help in that area and lays out a curated list of key people to follow in the space divided into four distinct categories: arts & culture, venture & trading, founders & builders, and storytellers & community members.
This post goes over the idea of Multiple Concurrent Leaders in Solana. With two or more leadership nodes, transaction latency and over-extraction can potentially be reduced, benefiting transaction processing time and costs. The concept of MCL has additional implications, such as fee and time priority execution, resource usage balance, network forking, and so on. The aim of MCL adoption would be to optimize Solana's network performance and reduce vulnerabilities to manipulative actions.
This thread makes the case that blockchain tech is a “50-year storm”, a technological revolution on a scale that only happens once every few generations. According to the thread, cryptocurrencies like Solana and services like Coinbase will challenge traditional financial systems, redefining the infrastructure of trading, payments, executions, and custody.
Points programs have become all the rage lately in the crypto ecosystem. In light of that, Li Jin of Variant provides some insight into her past experiences with points programs in a Web 2.0 company.
This sheet provides a comprehensive overview of all potential airdrops on Solana. It lists each protocol on the chain that could possibly have an airdrop, its airdrop status, suggested farming strategies, and more.
Helium Mobile has experienced a surge in sign-ups, driven by MOBILE token's price rise, forcing them to change some rules to combat suspicious accounts and gaming of its crypto rewards system.
Amid what looks like negotiations with the SEC to gain approval on its ETF application, Blackrock has amended its plan to include a cash convert instead of in-kind ETF. This short thread provides a basic description of what that means practically.
Figma and Adobe have decided to terminate their pending acquisition after 15 months of regulatory review as they no longer see a path to regulatory approval for the deal. Despite the initial goal of accelerating their contributions to their respective communities, both companies plan to continue independently and explore opportunities for user partnerships.
Giant Apple bags have become part of the landscape in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, Munich, and Paris as part of Apple's minimalist holiday campaign. 'Wonder Awaits' was designed by the tech giant's advertising agency. It features no name or copy, but the simple design leaves no doubt about who is behind the campaign.
The design strategically positions the symbol as a connective element that appears across the Stereolabs ecosystem, harmonizing the digital and physical aspects of the business and showcasing how design can play a transformative role in tech companies.
When designing tabs, you should consider the context in which they manifest when choosing labels, states, icons, and orientations. It makes sense to use tabs when content is related, one level deep, and when users need to navigate between sections quickly.
Storyboards and personas benefit from depicting the same characters in various situations. Unfortunately, creating persistent characters using AI-driven image-generation tools is difficult since they are probabilistic.
Designers and researchers who get asked “What’s the insight here?” while presenting findings from research failed at their job. This might happen because the takeaway is unclear, the other stakeholders don’t understand why, or they feel lost about what to do.
Checklist Design is a curated list of checklists for the best design practices for website pages, UI components, branding assets, and more.
Roast for Figma lets you easily clean up an old or imported file, remix a community resource, or update all tokens to a current library.
The Figma to Webflow plugin allows you to import and sync your Figma variables and their associated values easily into Webflow.
The history of computing has been marked by its personal nature for the last 40 years, even though highly collaborative intentions marked the inception of digital interfaces. Researchers are now exploring interaction and interface design patterns for real-life collaboration.
From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, The Guardian's panel of experts picks the designs and designers of the year.
Christmas trees have become symbols of warmth and joy synonymous with the holiday spirit. However, the holiday season can also be a time of defiance and creativity, as evidenced by these examples of contemporary artists reinventing the iconic symbol.
Douglas Engelbart’s demo about the future of interfaces, the introduction of the iPhone’s multi-touch screen, the evolution of the Photoshop tool palette, the Web Design Manifesto 2012 by Jeffrey Zeldman, the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines, and the 37Better Project.
TikTok is rolling out an update to the app’s UI and presentation on tablets and foldable devices. The app will now be reformatted to better fit a larger screen to improve user experience on these devices. The update includes enhanced video clarity, new slider bars at the top and bottom of the screen, and support for landscape and portrait viewing.
As 2023 concludes, retail companies are banking on the resilience of consumers. 60% express optimism for the next 6 months based on robust consumer spending despite economic challenges. Caution is still advised due to potential market risks such as labor strikes, rising energy prices, and geopolitical events.
A/B testing tools are valuable but not always within budget. This post describes a strategy for running landing page experiments without a tool. It involves identifying a landing page, creating a roadmap of tests, and then changing one single variant over a set period. Once complete, you update the page to a new variant based on your testing plan. How much time each variant runs should be based on how much traffic the page gets.
Visitors who use site search are typically 3 to 5 times more likely to convert than the average visitor. They also tend to have a 25-50% higher average order value. Site owners should look at their website analytics to see which searches result in high exit rates, then add missing product synonyms to their site search logic. Redirects can also be helpful—for example, bringing the user to a brand or category page when inputting certain terms. Other UI best practices include persistent queries and bold colors.
This article discusses effective user onboarding and product adoption strategies. It covers 5 strategies such as personalized user paths, interactive onboarding tutorials, continuous user support, and using feedback loops and surveys.
Motion enables creative teams and media buyers to understand which creatives have the best ROI in social media ads. The tool allows users to group ads with common attributes to find actionable insights on what works. It empowers teams to run short/long-term creative testing methodologies at scale. There is a 14-day free trial.
This guide shares 6 strategies to get better results from LLMs. The methods can be used in combination and require experimentation. For each of the strategies, the guide provides several specific tactics and prompt examples to illustrate. Example strategies include writing specific instructions, providing reference text, splitting complex tasks into simpler ones, and giving the model time to “think”.
8 free tools to help you do productive tasks with AI. From cooking up an AI-powered recipe with Taste Bud, to summarizing a YouTube video with Summarize.tech, to cleaning up background noise on any file with Adobe Podcast.
Google’s revenue per user has been growing despite stagnant search query volume. This means growing ad costs for advertisers and a potential plateau in its main business. Antitrust scrutiny only adds to the challenge, forcing Google to seek alternative sources of revenue like cloud computing. AI can be an opportunity, but it is still too early without clear monetization avenues.
A B2B growth team tends to focus on lead generation and nurturing, whereas a B2C team typically focuses on the entire funnel. B2B channels and tactics tend to be more targeted and personalized, while B2C tends to go for broad and scalable options. Team interactions also differ, as B2B ones are strongly sales-oriented, while B2C are product/marketing-oriented.
An ornaments company, Forged Flare, struggled with the decrease in ad effectiveness. It successfully adapted by building relationships with its existing customer base and finding support among other small business owners.
Prevent unintended coupon stacking by setting up rules per coupon, attaching internal notes, or eliminating sharable codes.
When editing short-form content, ensure captions are distributed evenly, zoom tracking is added, and safe zones are marked.
Good decisions are most needed when things are slowly deteriorating, but that’s when people tend to get stuck in analysis paralysis. For leaders in these situations, the most important thing to do is to help the team reduce cognitive load through top-down decision-making to establish clear priorities and constraints.
This post reflects on Google's historical approach to technology and its potential future direction. It covers Google's transition from being a services company to a hardware-oriented one, delves into the challenges and legal issues it faces, and explores its latest advancements in artificial intelligence.
This article shares tips on how to get to a decision in executive reviews. Understanding alignment before the conversation through pre-briefs, structuring an effective meeting, and listening to understand can increase your chances of reaching clarity.
The key to succeeding on the internet in 2024 is to fully engage with a niche, utilize meme culture for product promotion, prioritize education over entertainment, and build genuine connections within the industry.
Activation is a crucial metric as it addresses "The Firsts Problem," where user engagement typically declines after their initial interactions with a product. Effective activation strategies are essential for capitalizing on the first visit, session, day, and month of product usage. By prioritizing activation, businesses can significantly improve user retention, making a strong first impression that lasts.
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Effective upward management involves mutual leverage, where both manager and report benefit from each other's work. Key practices include understanding mutual goals, fulfilling commitments, actively owning project direction, openly discussing challenges, efficient communication, and maximizing one-on-one meetings for high-impact discussions. This approach fosters a productive manager-report relationship.
The November 2023 edition of the Product Hunt roundup highlights the top 10 apps selected based on the most upvotes. The apps showcase a range of solutions, from AI-powered sales tools to advanced email campaign strategies and efficient remote job searches. The roundup serves as a guide for tech enthusiasts to explore the latest in digital innovation and AI integration, ensuring their toolkits are future-ready.
Building a strong relationship between Product Managers and Engineering Managers is critical for product success. Key strategies include clarifying responsibilities, improving collaboration processes, driving alignment by sharing the 'why' behind decisions, treating EMs as equal partners, trusting their expertise, and fostering a genuine, personal connection. This approach ensures cohesive teamwork, effective communication, and a shared commitment to the product's vision.
This article helps people identify situations where the manager is the root issue. Its goal is not to endorse a culture of blaming managers, but to help people recognize what they can’t change and become confident in their decision to either tolerate the situation or change positions.
A “build trap” is when PMs get too caught up in shipping features instead of focusing on the real value these features bring to users. Getting everyone on the same mindset, tweaking how they do things, and putting customers first are some ways to get out of the build trap.
True viral growth occurs when users organically share an app's content frequently to other networks, demonstrating the importance of creating inherently shareable content rather than relying on temporary boosts or growth hacks.
Conflicts are inevitable in the field of product management. Transparent communication, an iterative problem-solving approach, and a commitment to collaborative decision-making are some of the ways to transform conflicts into opportunities for innovation.