Let's learn about Design via these 482 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology.Can you make it pop?1. What is a Full Stack Developer and How Do You Become One? A full stack developer is an engineer who can handle all the work of databases, servers, systems engineering, and clients.2. 21 Best Developer Portfolio Examples21 Awesome DEV portfolios for your inspiration3. Turn your old useless laptop screen into an external monitorFor far too long I possessed an old Dell Studio laptop. It served me well for a good 5 years with a number of service centre visits, battery and hard disk replacements, formats and OS upgrades. From the past few years I have ditched the old laptop for a Macbook. Yet still, I never bothered to dispose of it. After all it still works (slow af but works!). What if there is an ‘emergency’ situation where I need to use this ancient piece of technology? I tried selling it, but the act itself and the price I get for it is honestly not worth it. Giving it to someone for free feels like a punishment to the person (most smartphones have better specs). Disposing it off just doesn’t feel right (yeah right! That’s the middle class in me speaking. Also not very good for the environment).4. 7 Color Pattern Trends in Mobile App DesignYou must have heard the words like trends of color schemes/patterns in mobile app development and designing because mobile phones are the best and most convenient way to connect yourself to the digital world.5. Present Your Way to Success: Key Tips for Landing a Product Design JobEvery design job interview I’ve ever done or given has had one thing in common, and that’s the portfolio presentation.6. Demystifying “Genius Design”: A Dive into Big Tech's Design ProcessThe tech industry is rife with romantic tales of "genius design" - a talented team huddled in a room birthing "eureka" moments. That's not the case in reality.7. What is the difference between web design and web development?I remember in my early stages of learning web development, that I found myself confused multiple times about the differences between design and development. What are the roles of a web designer? What is involved in working with web design? Are web design and web development the same? Are they interchangeable terms with the same meaning?8. From San Francisco to London: A Designer's Tale of Two Tech HubsA designer's journey from big tech to small startups and working from San Francisco to London.9. 9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations)XR encompasses augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies. This is an up-and-coming industry that may be good to get into.10. 18 Awesome Linux Themes For Your Inspiration 🎨😍11. Looking Back at Doubling the Twitter Character Count - Looking After Number One-fortyA description on how Twitter has changed the character count of its Tweets based on the density of a language.12. Front-End Developers And Designers: Bridging The VoidI’ve come quite a long way as a web developer and happened to work in different teams and with different designers. Regardless of the number of people and type13. As a builder of Wordpress websites, I need to speak my truthThis is why Wordpress sucks and you should probably stop using it14. 🎨 Export a .svg file using Canva ⚛️Create .svgs using Canva.com Pro by selecting SVG from the dropdown options menu.15. 6 GUI Design Principles Every Designer Should KnowGUI design has become the best choice of user interface design. Nevertheless, in spite of the unpredictable popularity of GUI, few application programs have good interface design and live up to graphic user interface design principles. Additionally, it’s extremely difficult to use the expertise and existing documents to explain what an excellent and direct-viewing operation interface is.16. Mastering Micro-Copy With ChatGPTWriting good copy is hard. Using ChatGPT to write good copy can be hard too, but with a few tricks you can get some amazing results.17. How Color and Fonts Influence a Company's Success and How to Use ThemUnlock the power of colors and fonts in branding. Learn how to use psychology, color theory, and typography to enhance your brand's impact and success. Read on!18. How an AI Logo Generator Can Help Start-up BusinessesDiscover how AI logo generator can help start-up businesses create distinctive logos quickly and affordably.19. Tutorial: How to Turn Figma Files to SVG with Rect ElementsHow to create SVG from Figma with rect instead of path elements20. How To Create User Profile Page for E-Commerce Android AppWe are going to create an android UI for our UserProfile backend API we are creating for our demo E-commerce tutorial21. How to Design a Flexible Database ModelHandling these business changes at a data store level can be a nightmare for software engineers if the design of the underlying model does not account for adapt22. A Designer’s Take: Soft Skills to Level Up Your CraftLearn how product designers can structure their workflow, reduce chaos, and stay focused with four practical techniques for managing time and priorities.23. The Factory Method pattern in TypeScriptThe Factory Method pattern is a design pattern that is used to create objects without specifying the exact class of object that will be created.[24. Ethereum.org's New Art:Rethinking Identity as Community](https://hackernoon.com/rethinking-the-identity-of-ethereumorg-l718w347l)Today, I am excited to launch the first new artwork for the website of ethereum.org. Every few months, the website will be updated with new artwork that reflects a new aspect of Ethereum's identity. The concept of the work focuses on one of Ethereum’s major strengths: the community.25. What I Learned in My First Year as a Product ManagerExpectations, surprises, and lots of learning.26. Designing an On-Demand Video Streaming ServiceThe popular implementations of an on-demand video streaming service are the following: YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, and TikTok. The video files are stored in a mana27. The 💩 Poop Emoji's 10th AnniversaryThe poop emoji was inspired by Dr.Slump, a Japanese anime from the 80s. The emoji project began in Japan in 1999.28. How To Remember Design PatternsHere's a list of some of the book's design patterns, their definition, and what made me remember them. Each one of those principles solves a particular problem.29. How to Apply Psychology Of Colors In Marketing to Your BrandThis story is about how color is utilized in publicizing and marketing to summon enthusiastic responses. You can use this information to apply to your brand.30. Short on Budget? Use These Design Methodologies to Build Your First MVP Without a Full-time DesignerAn early-stage startup doesn’t always need a full-time designer. Product-oriented founders can often build their first prototypes on their own.31. Top 10 Online Marketplaces to Sell Your DesignsBeing a designer or web developer is a fabulous possibility to start working as a freelancer. I will bet anything you’ve been reflecting on it thousands of times, that is why you’re here. Don’t drain your energy on infinite searching of the most reliable and beneficial online marketplace to sell your designs, artworks or sell website templates.32. How to Code Sloped Section Edges?In the past, the only option to achieve this was using SVG images. Today, we can have multiple solutions and I’ll try my best to show you all possibilities.33. Lightweight CSS Animations with Figma & FigmotionHow web designers and developers can collaborate in Figma to create lightweight animations in CSS, HTML, and SVGs.34. How to Build a Design SystemSemantics, syntax, accessibility, tone, and context that provide a base for a shared design language — benefits, drawbacks, and examples.35. The next iPhone will determine the next laptop I purchase…. here’s why.I love Apple. Really. Seriously. Love, Apple products. I currently use a full Apple line up; MacBook Air 11' and iPhone 6S Plus. Both products have been absolutely superb to date.36. What "Made in China" Means TodayFor a long time, "Made in China" was considered a sign of poor quality goods and services. Now everything changed. I discuss how this transformation took place37. Key Design Principles for Startups: Things You Must PrioritizeKey Design principles that every startup must embed into its DNA from day one to build successful, intuitive and human-centred products38. 13 Website Design Inspiration for UI/UX DesignersRegardless of whether you're an accomplished website designer or developer or simply a beginner, a website architecture venture's extension can rapidly limit the of assets accessible, making it extreme to track down the correct website design for motivation for your assignment.39. Reinventing the Python Logo: Interview with a UI Designer UI designer Jessica Williamson redesigns the Python logo and receives 7000 upvotes on Reddit.40. Free & Premium Bootstrap Landing Page Templates for Your ProjectNowadays websites have become a popular marketing tool. People use them to promote almost everything, starting from products and finishing with services. The aim of the business defines the type of website that is necessary to build. It can be either a web page with a hierarchical structure and various pages or a landing page.41. Design Patterns: WTF is a Shim?During design meetings at my workplace and even during other conversations with friends, the term "shim" appeared to being placed offhand, with the context not being setup properly to indicate what it is exactly that the "shim" represented.42. 5 Fun Ways Designers Can Help Product Teams Be More User-centricProduct designers and researchers are the voices of the users. Check out the 5 fun and inclusive ways to help product teams build more user empathy.43. Reasons Behind Creating A Website with Black BackgroundBlack has always been—if not the most popular design color—the color which designers talk about the most. It is sophisticated, energetic, mysterious, elegant, powerful, stylish, and the complete opposite of the default white.44. My App Lets You Sort your Music by Mood [with some help from Spotify's Web API]I just finished working on moooodify, a website which lets you sort your favourite Spotify music by different moods, and then save them as playlists.45. The Best Way to Visualize Someone's Credit HistoryThis is the best way to innovate credit history visualization for fintech applications.46. Exploring the Trending Web Designs of 2023Explore 2023's web design trends, from minimalism to 3D elements. Stay up to date with the latest innovations shaping web design.47. Why SaaS Pricing Pages Fail A feature on the table and then locking it behind ‘upgrade to unlock’ two days later is a hostage situation.48. Web Design Principles That Will Take Centre Stage in 2023A cursory look at the web design principles will become the norm in 2023.49. A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Objects and Shapes in Fabric.jsFabric.js is an open-source JavaScript library used for creating interactive and high-quality graphics for the web.50. ADPList Matches Laid-Off Designers with Mentors for FreeADPLIst is a free community that matches designers and mentors. The new platform has more than 5,000 designers and mentors.51. Introduction to Design Patterns and Dependency InjectionA walk-through of dependency injection.52. The Most Important Stages of SaaS Application DesignWhile every startup has their journey, SaaS application designing and development has their SDLC. Here's what you need to learn about them.53. A Mobile App Concept For Nike’s Smart Shoes Adapt BB — BluethersThe quick proliferation into wearable technology cannot be overlooked, as now the evolution is more rigorous and advanced in comparison to what is for mobile in the reigning realm of computers. We are in the age of innovations, that’s what most of the business blog convey today.54. What Is Weaviate And How To Create Data Schemas In ItWhat is a Weaviate schema, why you need one and how to define one to store your own data.55. Design and Data Science: From a Human-in-the-Loop Approach to Human-Centered DesignFrom “human-in-the loop” to human-centred design, a mindset shift that emphasises designing for users rather than simply using users to validate machine output.56. Notion : A Product That Users Love, and VCs Can't Invest IntoIf you somehow navigate the mysterious path to reach the Notion HQ at 1:00 PM PST on a Friday, you would find an empty office with two golden poodles and a mutt running around. The entire team would not be far though, just shy of a mile away sitting at Barzotto and eating Extra-Long Noodles pasta over a glass of sparkling white wine. Add some soft serve gelato to that. This is just one of the many idiosyncrasies you would find in this 20 member start-up that has captured over a million users with their sleek product.57. UX Portfolio-Building Tips that Don't Get Old5 UX portfolio tips from Meta & ex-Google designer. Upgrade your design portfolio and get the job you want.58. What is a Color Picker Tool and How Does it Work?A color picker tool is a software application or online tool that allows users to select colors from a digital display or image.59. An Introduction to High Speed Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) A high speed printed circuit board design provides the transmission of signals at high speeds. It's a device that transfers data at very high speeds.60. Turn Code into Stunning Visuals With These 14 Code Snippet Image GeneratorsIn this article, we’ll explore 14 code snippet image generators to transform your code into beautiful visuals.61. My 45-min Product Design Interview ExperienceWhat is Product Design interview, how it differs from system design interview, and how to pass it successfully.62. The Future of Product Management is No-Code DevelopmentThree months ago I decided to immerse myself in the rapidly growing world of no-code development. This is what I’ve learned.63. Dark-Themed UI Design TipsHere I have shared seven tips you must remember when designing a dark-themed UI.64. UX Design: 6 Things I Want to Share with My Junior Designer Self6 tips for new grad and junior UX designers from a Staff Product Designer at Meta and Google.[65. Animation/Motion Design Tokensfor Complex Design Systems](https://hackernoon.com/using-animationmotion-design-tokens-for-more-complex-and-sophisticated-design-zy3t33y5)Each Animation needs a Trigger, Duration, Easing, and Property element. Design systems also play a part in creating Motion Design and Animation.66. Stop “Running” your Design Sprints: Prioritizing Results Over Process5 tips on how to run result-focused design sprints from a designer at Meta & Google. Take your design sprints to another level.67. How to Make a Wireframe in 2019Need help hacking your first wireframe? Here are a few first principles to remember.68. A Frontend Developer's Perspective on UI Design ToolsHey there 👋Thanks for checking my first Hackernoon article. My name is Vova and I'm a self-taught front-end engineer. I started learning front-end two years ago and was lucky to land my first job in a tech startup. Getting the first job is (very) challenging but the startup I applied to wanted to give equal chances to the professionals of all levels.So the last 1.5 years I was playing with React, Redux, Webpack, fetch, Node.js, Express.js Backend, Webhooks.…You know, in a startup you are wearing different hats. I was making 20+ landing pages, setting up A/B tests, helping the marketing team to make automation and eventually doing some design tasks.That's fun and I always enjoyed design tasks, even if they were small. So it became asking myself, what other people are using for making design tasks?Here is what I got from a small Twitter research:69. Three Design Principles Your CSS NeedsComing from a design background, as I make my way into the tech world, I constantly hear friends, fellow students, and even successful web developers claim that they “just don’t have an eye for design”. Let’s try to do something about that.70. A CSS Property That Every Web Designer must KnowI am Javier, a guy starting in this world of web development. My background is the filmmaking business, especially the video edition. I am writing this article to help guys like me that are learning web development or everyone that considers the design or the “look” of a webpage one of their passions. Back in my days of video-editor, one cool thing that I found in the software video and design editors was the ability to blend two images or more in order to display better. So if you just put an image in a given color background you can start to discover how the different values can make interesting looks.71. On Building HackerNoon's Pixel Icon LibraryHackerNoon’s free-to-use Pixel Icon Library is an open-source collection of 120+ Pixelated Icons, inspired by HackerNoon’s retro design vibe.72. Contract Testing: Practical Comparison of PACT, Spring CloudContract testing checks each app in isolation to ensure contracts comply with agreements. Tools: PACT, Spring Cloud Contract73. One Would Think The World Was Built Just as Much for Women as It Is For MenResearch has revealed that a shocking amount of modern design was created with only half the population in mind.74. Dark UI: Advantages and Use CasesThe dark UI feature that you have witnessed recently in Android and iOS apps is a good thing; large number of studies have shed some light on the benefits of a dark background.75. Tracking the Evolution of Emoji Skin TonesFive years ago, everyone used the same yellow-coloured emojis (which looked like the Simpsons or the LEGO, or just someone suffering from jaundice).76. The No-Code Movement And What It Means For AgenciesBuilding things online without any coding skills is barely a new thing - Shopify, Wix, Squarespace and many others have been around for years, allowing users to create e-commerce websites, personal portfolios, and corporates homepages all within the browser, only with basic tech knowledge.77. The Design Checklist: Keeping AI Products Alive After Week OneA field-tested design checklist to keep AI products alive after week one: task IDs, failure logging, reads vs writes, and verification workflows.78. Avoid These Mistakes to Monetize Internet Products ProfitablyInternet products often fail to monetize for various reasons. As a full-time product builder, I've learned valuable lessons from my own failures.79. Creative Automation is Shaking Up the Digital Marketing GameCreative automation is the idea of using technology to customize video or banner ads into thousands of variations in minutes. It removes repetitive manual work.80. Having (More) Fun Creating Components with the Lightning Design System for ReactCheck out how easy it is to create a custom component using the Lightning Design System for React and some very detailed blueprints81. The Seven-Step Hostage Situation You Call OnboardingUsers clicking Next so fast the cursor blurred. One opened the console to force-skip. What I learned about interfaces that teach themselves.82. Women in Tech: Interview with Anastasia Mironova, Product Designer at WhatsApp LondonInterview with Anastasia Mironova: sharing her career journey, perspectives on women in tech, and insights into design leadership83. I Built a Neuralink App Concept After Elon Musk’s Latest Joe Rogan PodcastI decided to design a Neuralink concept app after watching Elon Musk’s latest chat on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Context: Neuralink is one of the companies Elon Musk works on. They're developing skull implants that connect to the brain to restore certain body functions that were lost through injury or health complications.84. New Inline Emoji Reactions on Hacker NoonThe traditional comment box at the end of a blog post is not a sufficient way to facilitate reader and writer communication. It falls short in a number of ways:85. A Guide To Industrial Design For Mechanical Engineers. Is The Transition Worth It?Industrial design’s popularity has skyrocketed lately. Let's figure it out and try to understand what its captivation and relevance are.86. "When You’re Humble and Have Humility - You Rise to the Top"Michael Gaizutis is the Founder of RNO1 – Experience Design Agency for Tech & Web3 Brands of the Future.87. Modern Front End ArchitectureWhen you join the Front End world or you have a lot of years on this side, some questions appear for example: What is the best way to build the front end? How can I keep a front end cleaned and organized? Should I add unit testing? That's difficult to answer but I think I can share some good tips and articles about the Front End side so, let's go!!!88. Why Designers Should Understand How Developers WorkAs designers it’s easy to get annoyed with developers. Perhaps they can’t get the alignment of a button right; or that feature you deemed critical to your UX is just too far down the backlog for your comfort.89. Complexity is the enemy of software engineeringThe key to long-lived, maintainable software is simpler than you think.90. How Intelligent Systems and Robots Will Be Designed In The Near FutureAs of now, designing parts for an intelligent system involves building up the parts from the ground up. From 2D sketches to a feasible and robust part that can be manufactured based on given constraints of cost, material, and maximum weight. This often takes days to weeks, depending on the complexity of the parts that comprise the intelligent system.91. The Five Step Approach for Tackling Complex Problems“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” - Albert Einstein92. The Story of Canva: A Billion Dollar Startup Built on Democratizing DesignHow Slack Went From An Unsuccessful Video Game To A $26 Billion Dollar Company93. A Brief Guide to the Laws of UX for Product ManagersThe Laws of UX categorized under heuristics help us understand the cognitive and behavioral ways that humans generally interact with products. Let’s delve in!94. The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School: An innovative,safe and playful study environment.This edifice rises from the sand to offer a safe and enjoyable learning environment.🔥95. 4 Big Companies That Use UX Writing As A Growth EngineI'd like to start off this blog post by differentiating between UX Writing and Copywriting as I feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding.96. A Fun Game with Post-it Notes to Learn About Your PartnerA game with post-it notes that can be played both in-person or virtually using Mural or Miro for learning about your partner's likes, dislikes, and opinions.97. Using Mind Mapping as a Software EngineerMind mapping is a visual tool that can help you to organize your thoughts, ideas, and information in a way that is intuitive and easy to understand.98. Graph Databases, GraphQL and Dgraph [Tutorial]In the first quarter of 2020, I had the experience of being in a short term advisory role for a company that had built a type of Linkedin product for a specific vertical market. They had done a valiant job, but it was clear that scalability was a problem and they had created a problem for themselves by having used MongoDB as the datastore.99. Why visualizations in Health don’t workVisualizations in the most favorite health apps don’t have enough comparing and exploring possibilities.100. Tech Founders Are Using These 5 Resources to Build Their First PrototypeUseful sources for founders and early tech entrepreneurs for building their first prototype.101. A Guide to UI Design Patterns in Flutter: Navigation and LayoutIn this article, we're going to look at all the different ways to lay out and navigate between different features in your Flutter apps.102. The Psychology of Color in MarketingUnderstanding the psychology of color can help improve your branding and marketing.103. Devs: Write Some Code for Yourself and Earn CashA case study for all software developers to earn with side hustle by using their skills to earn extra cash104. Top 6 AutoCAD Advanced Concepts You Need to Know AutoCAD is amongst the most widely used CAD systems worldwide. It was published as Autodesk's flagship product in 1982.105. A Designer and a Nordic Guy Walk into a HallThe Divine Alchemy of Mastery in Digital Design106. Accessibility Tools and Resources for Designers and DevelopersToday we’ll talk about accessibility.107. 10 UI Elements Web Developers Should Know AboutFor web developers, it’s crucial to have a deep understanding of UI elements and how users interact with them. UI elements lay at the heart of web development and act as a common design language between web developers.108. A Way to Overcome the Perfectionist in You: Create Something Every DayNo matter how simple a task you may choose, doing it every day is never easy. I took up this challenge to create and publish one Illustration each day throughout October. During this time I went through a spectrum of emotions — from fear, embarrassment, confusion, denial, thinking too much about other people’s opinions, not giving a flying sh*t about other people’s opinions, questioning myself mid-way — why am I even doing this? — to eventually lead to a mild sense of accomplishment. (whispers: yay!)109. 20 Top Scary Halloween Graphics for Your Web ProjectsHalloween celebration is round the corner. It’s all about having fun in costumes, parties, trick-or-treat and other fun activities.110. A Systematic Approach to Building Products (Template)If you’re working on something new, there are so many directions your work and product can take.111. 4 Ways to Deal with Clients Who Ghost You at Payment TimeA lowdown for freelance designers on how to deal with design clients who go invisible when they need to pay you without burning the bridge entirely.112. How Helpful is Primavera in a ConstructionBeing a multifarious, sophisticated project, Primavera is essential in a construction project to get everything executed within budget and on time. Owned by Oracle, Primavera is a renowned tool used for planning, managing, controlling and executing projects or portfolios. It is an easy to use Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution. Not only is this goodie used in construction, but it can also be used for any multifaceted projects with a lot of complexities. This includes oil and gas, engineering, architecture, chemicals, financial services, aerospace and defense, government, IT, telecommunications, and even movie creation.113. Pitch Perfect: 7 Design Mistakes Startup Founders Make in Pitch Decks (Again and Again)How to make a good pitch deck for a startup to secure investors' attention by avoiding common design mistakes frequently made by startup founders114. How to Hack Bootstrap CSS for Better Looking WebsitesA tutorial of actionable design tips to achieve satisfaction with the look of your bootstrap themed site.115. Tokenization of Intellectual Property Rights — Part 1: A Small Introduction to IP RightsTokenization of IP rights is something that is sure to come. Companies like Lexit, Molecule, the Open Innovation Platform DEIP are looking for ways to tokenize and liquidate IP rights for different reasons (like M&A or just to increase collaboration in innovation).116. FLUX.2 klein Trainer (Edit): Fine-Tune LoRAs on a Lean 4B BaseA simplified guide to fal-ai’s FLUX.2 klein LoRA trainer for editing.117. Bye-bye Google Fonts: German Court Rules That Google Fonts Is Not in Compliance with GDPRGoogle Fonts is a data privacy concern. Learn why you should care.118. OpenAI Wants to Design How You Live With AIRead this post to dig into the broader implications of OpenAI's acquisition of Jony Ive's startup.119. Should Web Developers Learn How To Use Photoshop?When I returned to coding after a long break, I felt sorry that I had wasted a lot of time. I learned image manipulation software instead of coding. That’s when I started to wonder:Is Photoshop still relevant for a web developer?120. Minimum Viable Tool (MVT)There is a lot of talk about the Minimum Viable Product — a prototype with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and provide feedback for future development. But feature creep often starts much earlier, in the design & development, if not the ideation stage of a project.121. 7 Best AI Logo Maker Software Available OnlineFor any brand, creating its own identity is a challenging task. Especially for a start-up and small businesses, brand recognition is even more essential. Brand recognition can go a long way in influencing the success of a business. Every scale business spends a huge amount on marketing their brand and creating their imprint in people’s minds.122. Wix-Animation Module Implementation: Follow These Tips to Set It UpThe wix-animations module contains functionality for working withanimations. Learn more.123. 10 UX Tips To Create High-Performing Landing PagesA landing page could be the homepage of a website or any web page, representing a particular product or event, where the user lands on. The intent behind having a landing page for any website is to present a product, without bragging (using clear and precise content, and images). But the success of this page’s design depends on whether the user decides to take the specified action — such as signing up for updates or making a purchase.124. Introduction to Design Systems for UX/UI DesignersFor junior designers - those who have just started studying UX / UI design systems and those who have been working in this field for up to 1-2 years. The main goal of this article is to introduce you to the basic components of system design, to give you a basic introduction to this concept and to revise the material by demonstrating several examples of design systems that are already used by large companies.125. Turn Any Photo Into Any Look: flux-2-klein 9B LoRA for Image-to-Image EditingA practical guide to fal-ai’s FLUX.2 Klein 9B LoRA editor—recolor, restyle, and batch-transform images while preserving content.126. 4 Strategic Design Practices to Future-Proof Your Startup in 2022Apply these simple strategies to promote longevity and build success for your startup127. Onboarding of a New Product Designer: How to Make It Comfortable and EffectiveThis article is a brief guide for the designer onboarding process and contains recommendations how to structure information and create supportive atmosphere.128. UX Design Trends to Watch out in 2020Today’s world is full of technological advancement where content with a poor design doesn’t stand out. It is considered to be useless. What attracts potential customers in whatever they want is the design. Nonetheless, it can be quite tricky to stay up on the top due to the ever-changing digital evolution.129. Have You Ever Struggled with a Performance Issue For Your Web App?Stuck with writers' block? No problems. Answer these writing prompts and share with us your expertise as a dev, gamer, or business analyst!130. CSS Named Colors: Everything Explained This page provides resources for working with CSS Name Colors. It contains Named Color groups, palettes, favorites, and even fun facts.131. Unlocking Creative Potential: Exploring Latent Spaces in 3D Generative DesignBrowsing the Latent Space is an interactive tool that leverages the potential of latent space visualization and interpolation within 3D generative systems.132. An Intro to Web Design and UI/UX Trends in 2023The trend of brutalism, which breaks the rules and catches people's attention, allows for the addition of interesting elements like screaming fonts.133. Wave Accounting's Bill Upload Feature - An Unsolicited DesignHow I designed a suggestion for bill upload feature for Wave accounting software that solves UX issues of inefficiency, less accuracy, and file storage limits.134. What Is Sketch? Introductory Sketch Templates and ResourcesQuoting Steve Jobs, design is not just what it looks like and feels like; design is how it works. Needless to say, the technical part of any website always matters a lot.135. Exploring Mental Health and UX Design with Jennifer WongJennifer Wong is the Founder of a UX design boot camp called Product Design Fam and the CEO of Empathie, an app dedicated to empowering racial minorities.136. How ADHD and AI Work Together Better Than Any Productivity System I TriedScored 147 on RAADS-R and 38 on AQ-50 (autism), plus ADHD. Here's how I built AI systems that work with my brain, not against it. Real stack, real workflows....137. Levelling Up Your Conversion Metrics Via Behavioural PsychologyYou got a perfect product, been used by about a million of users, so does it mean your product is successful? Well, if you think right now it’s on the path of success, but it might just take a small turn to go down the road to failure. Product just can’t be successful and keep its game up for a longer run unless it exploit the behavioural domain of its users.138. How to Improve the Table - Content Design Techniques to Simplify Data Reading and Speed Up WorkI want to show you how to improve the tables by designing the content and information in the cells. How to simplify the reading of data and speed up work139. If I Could Create Worlds…I’m Mark Nadal & I want to tell you stories of an awe-inspiring future.140. Why SaaS Products Feel Harder to Use Every YearWatched a product add 40 features nobody asked for. Users responded by opening text files instead. Activation: 73% → 51%. Feature count: up. Irony: also up.141. CSS Recreation: The Frosted Glass Credit Card DesignToday I wanted to try and recreate a super cool dribbble shot from Dede Dwiyansyah I came across.142. How I Designed, Built and Launched a product over the Weekend - A Breakdown of EventsEarlier this year, I launched a side project of mine called Lancerlist which is a platform that allows companies to find freelancers in their city.143. Turning Your Imagination Into RealityYou need to know when your AirTaxi pickup time is. You think for a moment and the answer pops into your mind in less than a few milliseconds. You suddenly remember to catch up with your friend over in Shanghai and you reach out to him. A flood of joy washes over your mind as the connection is established. He allows you to traverse through his feelings and of a recent holiday as you connect with each other. A virtual message notification pops up in front of your eyes but intuitively, you will it to go away. You feel the AirTaxi landing outside and start walking towards it, through automatic doors, and allow it to carry out an invisible memory check before sitting down…144. 5 Quick Hacks for High Converting Landing PagesI’ve seen quite some landing pages come by on indiehackers.com by now and I noticed that I wanted to give/gave the same tips multiple times. So I thought it would be nice to write a small article about this. These are just tips from my point of view and things I like about a landing page personally.145. Skeleton Mammoth : A Universal Approach to the Problem of Reusable Skeletons LoadersIn this article, I will describe the process of creating the skeleton loader solution and turning it into a library.146. How to Hire the UX Designer in 2021We continue to share the internal processes of Overgear. This time we talked with CEO Tony Doronin who takes part in the recruiting process.147. How MarkUp Reshaped Digital Collaboration for Remote Workers...and Grew 302% in One MonthWhen we started MarkUp, a visual collaboration tool for digital content, we expected to see user growth from much of the design and developer communities, because of the problem we are solving in those fields.148. Five Job Interview Questions for hiring a UX DesignerBy Adam Fard, founder of adamfard.com a UX Design Agency149. Artificial Intelligence for Web3 Development: a Useful Tool or an Obstacle?AI is said to replace designers, developers, and others who work on Web3. Is it the truth? While AI can be useful, it is still far for it to be replacing people150. 5 Essential Bootstrap CSS Components and How to Improve Their DesignBootstrap CSS has some flaws that can easily be fixed with a little design know how and out of the box Bootstrap classes151. 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An Introduction to Domain-Driven DesignHave you come across DDD (domain-driven design)? Domain-specific programming - what is it and how to live with it?162. How to Use Microinteractions to Enhance UX and User EngagementThey may say, "The harder the journey, the better the destination." But, you don't want to lose another user just because the UX of your application is giving them a hard time. Maybe focussing on the journey is more important. That is why it is also said that the journey is more important than the destination. The more eventful and detailed your UX journey is, the more the number of users will start using your product.163. Designing an API Rate Limiter Distributed systems implement an API rate limiter for high availability and security.164. Get Over 50+ Free Icons for Your Projects HereDesigning resources are heavily priced everywhere. But here I am sharing some resources using which you can get more than 10 Million+ Free Icons.165. How AI Is Transforming the Field of Architecture and DesignAI is still on the move, disrupting every industry. The impact of this technology is now highly significant, also, in the architectural industry.166. The Web Design Trends you Must Not Miss in 2022web design is moving into the future, with advanced techniques like retro revolution, fewer images, and Memphis design.167. Digital Design Canvases Are Evolving to Better Suit Modern WorkflowsThe importance of information layers for design workspaces and the future of productivity in teams168. How Technology Enables Visual Artists to Create and Monetize Digital ArtWhat are hottest NFT trends and what to expect in the field of digital art?169. How to Create Effective Frontend Design DocumentsLearn how to create effective frontend designs with this comprehensive guide. We cover everything from design principles to implementation strategies.170. Visually Planning Instagram Feeds for Someone Who is Not a DesignerActionable tips from pro designers on how to create a smashing Instagram feed.171. Double Diamond Discovery - Part 2In my previous post I described how to apply the Double Diamond - a tool of design thinking (https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/what-framework-innovation-design-councils-evolved-double-diamond) - to product discovery. In this post I will be diving deeper into diamond two (D2) where we address four types of risk as defined by SVPG:172. Fostering Biodiversity and Solar Energy Design: What Made the 2024 London Design Festival Memorable?Playful, captivating and functional – what designs were showcased at this year's London Design Festival?173. Website Builder Tool Quarkly Goes Into Open BetaMy name is Alex, and I’m a co-founder and lead developer at Quarkly.io. Quarkly is a project made by our small team of designers and developers, aimed at helping similar teams. 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Top 7 Tips To Become A UI/UX ProTips & resources to help you get started179. Seven UX Lessons from Apple's Big Sur UpdateThe largest tech company in the world recently launched new software.180. 236 Stories To Learn About UxLearn everything you need to know about Ux via these 236 free HackerNoon stories.181. How to Test UX Design: UX Problem, Validation & User TestingThe process of testing design is becoming more and more important in the UX world. It allows you to determine if your design will work for your users and solve182. Turn Any Image Into Anything (Fast): A Guide to PrunaAI’s z-image-turbo-img2imgz-image-turbo-img2img makes image iteration fast: prompt an edit, tune strength, pick steps, set a seed, and export PNG/JPG/WebP.183. Beware the Real-Time Trap: Your Fresh Data Could Be Slowing Down Your DashboardsStop chasing "speed" as a monolith. Data latency and query latency are fundamentally different problems. Optimizing for fresh data often degrades dashboard responsiveness, and vice versa. The real challenge isn't building the fastest system—it's aligning your architecture with actual business needs while managing exponential costs.184. Double Diamond Discovery: Part 3Discovery is undertaken in two steps with continuous iteration within each step. Step one is ensuring we are solving the right problem and step two is ensuring we are solving the problem right. This post is about step one in this process, AKA diamond one (D1) - my previous post explains step two, AKA diamond two (D2). I started this series with an overview of how to apply the double diamond to product discovery. Again thanks to the British design council for their very awesome double diamond.185. Backend Developers And UX Design: Who Should Pay Attention?There are many languages and technologies in the arsenal of both the front end and the back end. A fierce debate is ongoing about their relevance and convenience. But the truth, as always, is somewhere nearby.186. How Does Innovative Product Engineering Work?What does the hardware design look like? What are the most innovative product engineering approaches? How to build a product that will really stand out?187. Building a Website for a Dental Clinic Using Wix and VeloLong gone are the days when building a website required a myriad of coding skills and zillions of hours.188. Is There Really a Hierarchy in Design?Designers should stop using the ‘Hierarchy of Design’ concept as the representation of design characteristics as a pyramid is inaccurate and misleading189. What Product Designers Can Learn From A Luggage BusinessThe classic, timeless design principles I learned and use today can be seen everywhere from the phones that we use and even the luggage that we take for granted190. Do You Have to Code to Be in Tech?Software Development is a route that’s proved to be very popular in the last couple of years in tech. From HTML & CSS webinars to Ruby on Rails meet ups, you can’t escape the hype. But what if coding isn’t for you? What if you want to solve problems in Tech without writing code, is there a career out there for you?191. A Designer's Dream Job: How to Get What You Want by Doing What You LoveI have gone through self-discovery so many times that I could publish a bestseller. Instead, I will share this experience to help you grow your skill 2.0.192. Expanding Design Exploration: Exploring Feature Spaces Beyond Parametric BoundariesThe project presented here marks a significant step forward in how designers can interact with complex datasets and uncover new possibilities in their work.193. Approaching UI/UX Design from a Safety StandpointAs neo-designers creating to save the world, it’s our responsibility to start conversations and make safety a cornerstone of every design.194. How Good UX Designers Can Rescue Your StartupThe biggest mistakes startup founders are making and real reasons why compromising on UX is detrimental to the success of your business.195. Mid-Fi Prototyping for Augmented Reality & Virtual RealityWant to do rapid prototyping for augmented & virtual reality? Try 360theater, a new design method developed at the University of Michigan.196. How to Design Products For Happiness in 2022Learn how to design products with happiness in mind by using focus and specificity in order to make the process for both your customers and your team smooth.197. Top 5 UX Design Trends to Keep an Eye OnIn this post, we’ll be exploring some interesting UX design trends to look out for in 2022. But before that, let’s discuss why is UX design important.198. The Goals of Software Design A misguided software design can hurt both the business and the technology. It is therefore vital to understand an organizations goals and optimize accordingly.199. How to Calculate the ROI of Your Design SystemDesign systems are a crucial success factor for digital businesses. Calculate the ROI of any design system with this ready-to-use formula.200. Top-8 Web Design Trends of 2021Minimalism, 3D graphics, gradients, textures, and animation ― we’ve seen them all in 2020, but the upcoming year is giving the common design trends a new twist.201. This Perplexity Embedding Model Understands Chunks in ContextLearn how pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b creates context-aware chunk embeddings for RAG systems with int8 efficiency, 32K context, and late chunking.202. Kaamelott, A Cult TV Series Helped Me Better Understand Product Development CyclesThe software industry has a unique privilege: shipping a flawed product is not that big of a deal. The cost of fixing a software product and redistributing it again is so low that your success is not determined by the quality of your product, but by how fast you are able to fix flaws.203. Illustrate Your Work With 3D ModelingA technique for developing three-dimensional objects, 3D modeling can be applied to various industries, including manufacturing and animation.204. Communication is the Key: 3 Design Concepts to Help You Improve ItCommunication is the key to success. Speaking comes naturally to many people, not effective communication. Visuals are easier to understand than words.205. Double Diamond Discovery - Part 4 and finalThis is the fourth and final post in my series on an approach to product discovery - Double Diamond Discovery (again thanks to the British Design Concils super awesome framework). So far I have posted an overall view and then expanded on Diamond 1 (D1) and Diamond 2 (D2). This final post discusses the delivery track (https://www.jpattonassociates.com/dual-track-development/) and how this feeds back into the discovery track. In the diagram above there are two steps after discovery - “Delivery” and “Learn”. Although we want to have a ‘ship to learn’ (https://www.intercom.com/blog/intercom-product-principles/) mindset I need to emphasize most of the learning is done in D2 where learning is cheap and fast. There are always many new things to build/fix/improve so it’s easy to ship and forget. But shipping is only half the job.206. Top 11 Best User Interface Design Benefits for Online Educational PlatformsIt’s no longer news that the methods of sharing knowledge are changing. Well, that’s where online platforms come in. They host many of these educational service providers. They also ensure that students can get access to technologically-advanced education in the comfort of their homes.207. What is Design Debt and Why is it Important?Design debt is a common yet rarely discussed problem startups face in iterative and incremental software development. Learn what it is, where it comes from, and why it is so important to prevent it.208. 3 Examples Of Design Applications With Great UXWhen it comes to design, it has long been said that simplicity is key. And although I always understood the basis for this saying, I never fully appreciated what it really meant.209. Adding Responsive Website Design To Your Web Projects210. Top 21 Chrome Extensions for Designers and Developers in 2023Explore a list of 21 functional Chrome extensions.211. The Rainbowfication of the Hacker Noon Logo: Happy Pride Month!A quick tutorial on how to rainbowfy your logo, in Hacker Noon style. Happy Pride Month!212. Building a Wedding Website in 5 Minutes from ScratchThey say digital design is like paint that never dries. Today, we're going to create our own piece of digital art. And WIX will become our ultimate drawing kit. But while paintings take years to get finished, our wedding website will be up and running in a few moments. Let's get into it.213. How Finite State Machines Made My RTS Game Smarter — and My Code CleanerReal-time strategy (RTS) games often need predictable yet flexible patterns.214. Top Coding Principles To Live ByI want to share basic concepts on how to write robust and good maintainable code. They will allow you to write better and more maintainable code.215. Huihui-Qwen3.5-9B-Abliterated: What This Uncensored Model DoesThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called Huihui-Qwen3.5-9B-abliterated [https://www.aimodels.fyi/models/huggingFace/huihui-qwen3.5-9b-abliterated-hui...216. Technology and the 21st Century Artist: The Search for a New AestheticThis article discusses how advancements in technology can influence art aesthetics.217. Music & Tech: The Beginner's Guide to Selling More MerchSelling artist merch can help increase your revenue and help you build a successful career in the music industry. Here's how.218. How to Define User Behavior Using Methods Like Grouping, 2x2 Matrix, and Venn Diagram.How to define user behaviour using methods like Grouping, 2x2 Matrix, and Venn Diagram.219. A Recipe For A Checkerboard Styled PageLast week, as part of an assignment for a Ruby on Rails application, I was given the challenge to create a checkerboard styled page. The design is from Nelson Sakwa and the requirements were as follow:220. Web Design Mistakes that Just Won't DieIn this thread, the Slogging community discusses the most common web design mistakes that just won't die.221. How I Landed a Design Internship at HackerNoonHere's a story of how I landed a design internship with hackernoon.222. Top 7 Figma Plugins to Invigorate Your Design ProcessExplore 7 essential Figma plugins revolutionizing design – from grammar check to code generation, enhancing creativity & efficiency.223. Generate Multi-Angle Product Photos at Scale With a 96-Pose Camera LoRALearn how to “move the camera” in image edits: 96 viewpoints, smooth transitions, and -30° low-angle shots using Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Multiple Angles LoRA.224. Web Design: Creating Classy Links with Animated TransitionsHere’s how to use CSS to make your links even more beautiful.225. The Image Editor That Finally Stops “Face Drift”: Inside Qwen-Image-Edit-2511This is a simplified guide to an AI model called Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 maintained by Qwen. If you like these kinds of analysis, join AIModels.fyi or follow us on Twitter.Model overviewQwen-Image-Edit-2511 is an enhanced image editing model from Qwen that builds on its predecessor with improvements in consistency and capability. This model handles image-to-image transformations through text prompts, allowing users to edit and manipulate images in sophisticated ways. The improvements in this version focus on reducing image drift, enhancing character consistency, and integrating community-created LoRA capabilities. Compared to related models like Qwen-Image-Edit-Plus, this version places special emphasis on practical industrial applications and geometric reasoning.Model inputs and outputsThe model accepts images and text prompts to generate edited versions of those images. Users provide reference images along with detailed instructions about desired modifications, and the model outputs new images reflecting those changes while maintaining visual consistency and quality.InputsImages: One or multiple input images to be edited or used as reference materialPrompt: Text description of the desired edits or transformationsConfiguration parameters: Settings like guidance scale, inference steps, and seed values to control generation behaviorOutputsEdited images: Generated images reflecting the requested modifications while preserving important visual characteristics from the inputCapabilitiesThe model handles character consistency across edits, preserving identity and visual traits when making imaginative changes to portraits. It can fuse multiple person images into coherent group photos while maintaining consistency across all subjects. The model includes built-in support for popular community LoRAs, enabling effects like realistic lighting control and multi-angle viewpoint generation without additional tuning. For industrial applications, it performs batch product design variations and material replacement on components. The model demonstrates enhanced geometric reasoning, capable of generating construction lines and annotations for design purposes.What can I use it for?Creative professionals can use this for portrait editing that maintains character identity while exploring different styles and contexts. Fashion and product designers benefit from batch generation of design variations and material swaps for industrial components. The model works for creative composition tasks, enabling the combination of separate person images into unified group photographs. Teams working on industrial design can generate multiple product iterations and explore material alternatives efficiently. Content creators can perform complex edits that require both semantic understanding and visual consistency, from fantasy character transformations to realistic lighting adjustments. Explore related research on intelligent interactive image editing systems for additional context on this capability space.Things to tryExperiment with portrait editing by providing a photo and describing a different context or styling while watching the model preserve facial features and identity. Test multi-person editing by uploading two separate portraits and requesting them to appear together in a specific scene. Try leveraging the integrated LoRA capabilities to add professional lighting effects without needing to load additional models. For industrial workflows, batch generate product design variations by making iterative edits with different material descriptions. Explore geometric reasoning by requesting the model add construction lines or guides to images for design annotation purposes. Investigate the difference between single-subject and multi-person consistency by comparing results on individual versus group photos.Original post: Read on AIModels.fyi226. It's Your Turn, Cowboy!Stuck with writers' block? No problems. Answer these writing prompts and share with us your expertise as a dev, gamer, or business analyst!227. Augmented Reality in Top 5 Apps 2020Augmented reality is often presented as something futuristic, but it exists around us for a long time.228. Brand Identity Versus Product Design — What is the Difference?Difference between brand identity design and product design.229. How to Use Velo Rendering API for Improved Performance of Website Pages: Tips to Take into AccountWhen a visitor browses to one of your site's pages, that page needs to be set up before it is displayed. Setting up a page includes adding and positioning all of its elements as well as running code that might retrieve the page's data or perform other setup operations. This process is known as rendering.230. How To Design Die-Cut Stickers?Stickers are a unique form of advertising as they can capture the interest of the audience and can go viral. They are similar to pay-once banner advertisements. Just create it once, and it will stay included under your customers’ favorite items like laptops, notebooks, stationery, cars, etc.231. Website Redesign Strategy With a 9 Stage TimelineThe redesign process is explained in detail, with 9 stage timeline. Go step by step with this guide.232. A Guide to Bidirectional Scrolling in Responsive DesignsIncessant scrolling while using an application is perceived as a flaw on both mobile and desktop. To address this concern, a shift to horizontal scrolling of elements is in trend now.233. 9 Website Design Tips To Get Things RollingWhile website design isn't rocket science, there are a few stellar points you should keep in mind while designing a website.234. These 2 Mental Models Will Determine Whether Your AI Startup Will Last2 Mental models for predicting which AI products will create and capture the most amount of value in the next 24 months.235. A Short History of Graphic Design JobsGraphic Designers and Artists are in high demand, but with advancements in software and the growth of the internet some fear that these jobs will die off.236. 45 Stories To Learn About Graphic DesignLearn everything you need to know about Graphic Design via these 45 free HackerNoon stories.237. The Design Documentation No One Asks For (But Everyone Needs)Specs tell you what to build. Decision records tell you why. How simple documentation prevents teams from rediscovering past mistakes and losing organizational238. You Can’t Be a Good Web3 Designer Without Real Interest in Web3My name is Andrii Bondar. I'm a product designer working on the zkSync project, a layer 2 solution for scaling the Ethereum blockchain.239. Seven Deadly Sins You Can Make in Mobile App Design There are too many examples when an app brings more annoyance than value. We’ve picked four of them and figured out the design sins they committed.240. Alibaba’s ControlNet Upgrade: Z-Image-Turbo 2.0 ExplainedWant diffusion that follows your layout? Learn Z-Image-Turbo-Fun ControlNet Union 2.0—multi-control inputs, faster inference, better refinement.241. Why Everyone in Your Design Review Knows Nothing Will Change (And Shows Up Anyway)Watched a designer present to 14 people. 27 changes requested. 8 about the same color. The flow never shipped. Everyone knew it wouldn't. They showed up anyway.242. NEW: Audio Player Now Available on HackerNoonOur stellar team of developers is busy devoting their coding talents to improve HackerNoon's usability, accessibility, design, and overall awesomeness.243. Noonies Nominee and Lead Product Designer Avrora Shuhalii on Writing, Tech, and More244. The Future Of DevOps: Continuous Design/Continuous IntegrationThe interaction among many tools in the design & development space all point to a new emerging category: “Continuous Design / Continuous Integration" or "CD/CI"245. Graphic Designer Tips: How to Communicate With Your ClientsClient-oriented approach tips that help to build smooth and productive communication with clients.246. The Difference Between Progressive and Responsive Web DevelopmentWhile a progressive app mimics the behavior of an app, it isn’t one – it’s a website.247. HackerNoon The Beloved Pixel Font - Now Coming to You in 2.0HackerNoon Font 2.0 is now open-sourced on brand.hackernoon.com and GitHub.248. 25 Social Media Design Tips We are 90% visual beings, according to the Social Science Research Network. While other animals are characterized by the sense of smell or hearing sense in the case of the bat, the human is undoubtedly a visual being. The research concluded that we process visuals 60,000 times faster than text. Images are the most natural things to remember by our brains and are essential for our learning. Because of human nature, what we see has a strong effect on what we do, what we feel, and what we are.249. I Used A 3D Printer To Make My Own Glasses For Under $2How you can custom-design new frames in under 1 hour. Not only were these frames 3D printed, but they were custom-designed by the wearer and cost under $2.250. #MambaMentality Went Much Beyond Basketball Courts and Shaped An Entire GenerationOn Sunday, January 26th, the world suffered the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, his assistant coach Christina Mauser, Sarah and Payton Chester, the Altobelli family, and pilot Ara Zobayan. For many basketball fans, it was a moment filled with disbelief, shock, and sadness. But as we learned more about the horrific accident from news outlets, reporters and journalists, the world began to look back at Kobe’s basketball career and journey: a 5-time champion with the Los Angeles Lakers, MVP, scoring champ, a plethora of scoring records, and Olympic gold medalist.251. 5 CSS Tips and Tricks to Try in Your Next ProjectLooking for inspiration on how to add a twist to your project design? Take a look at those 5 CSS techniques and have fun experimenting with some bold ideas!252. Building Technology that Augments Human Abilities with Amber Case253. 220 Stories To Learn About Ux DesignLearn everything you need to know about Ux Design via these 220 free HackerNoon stories.254. How To Deal with A Very Bad eCommerce store design?Physical retail or eCommerce, customers today have an ocean of alternatives in both the online and offline markets. Dozens of super-markets built side-by-side or thousands of eCommerce sites on the internet, all of this mean the same thing –255. How To Make Marvelous Microcopy: 7 Surefire TipsGood microcopy is one of the fastest ways to improve an interface. Try doing an audit on your UI with these tips to see how it stands up.256. A Shipper, Not a Prototyper - A Reflective Writing and a Cover LetterThis letter, a cover letter, is a self reflection exercise, and a job application. It's real. It honors writing as part of the design process.257. How to Design the Hashnode Logo With HTML and CSSIn this article, we will learn how to recreate the Hashnode Logo using plain HTML/CSS. No JavaScript is involved.258. Churn Isn’t One Problem—It’s FourWhy You Can’t Fight Churn All At Once Churn isn’t one problem. It’s four—and the worst part? Three of them aren’t even about your product. Until you separate...259. 113 Stories To Learn About Ui DesignLearn everything you need to know about Ui Design via these 113 free HackerNoon stories.260. A Beginner's Guide to Font Selection: Tips and Top Free Typeface Combinations for Impactful UIDiscover the secrets of impactful UI design through effective font selection. This guide shares tips for junior designers.261. How To Improve Your Design With Right Illustrations And AnimationsStunning designs and dynamic illustrations seize attention, don’t you agree?262. Bringing Your Logo to Life: Immersive AR Branding ExperiencesThe future of branding is in the experience. Bringing your logo to life through 3-D design or similar styles will help boost your brand. Find out why and how.263. Eating Your Own Dogfood Is Just Not EnoughDogfooding—the disgusting and less than accurate way of suggesting a team use its own product before releasing it to others—is a common way for startups to test their product. If you don't like your own product, who else is going to? It makes a ton of sense, but it's not enough.264. Design Digest: Trends, Logo Redesign, and Fresh Memes [Part1]The ultimate design digest with fresh news, trends overview, and the best cases from the Awesomic team. Find out what was popular in March and check out memes!265. Users Make Decisions Based on Predictable Subconscious PatternsWe like to apply labels to users: they’re irrational, lazy, unpredictable, rushed, and so on.266. How My Blog Posts Generate Their Own ImagesEach blog post generates its own unique SVG image from a content hash. No stock photos, no AI generation. Same content always produces the same visual.267. How I Created My Digital Branding For Less than $500Do it yourself logo design, website design, and personal branding tools for early-stage entrepreneurs and consultants.268. A Deeper Look into Our Design Process for SaaS ApplicationsWe develop a custom product design process that takes UX and UI into account and allows us to build effective software products.269. Meet the Writer: HackerNoon's Contributor Harish Pillai, Designer and Digital TechnologistInterview with designer Harish Pillai on writing on HackerNoon and his first published work Art Speak - Revisiting art ideas that formed the modern world.270. The Physics Simulation Problem That More Compute Can’t FixThis is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Multiscale Corrections by Continuous Super-Resolution [https://www.aimodels.fyi/papers/arxiv/multiscale-corrections-by-continuous-super-resolution?utm_source=hackernoon&utm_medium=referral]. If you like these kinds of analysis, join AIModels.fyi [https://www.aimodels.fyi/?utm_source=hackernoon&utm_medium=referral] or follow us on Twitter [https://x.com/aimodelsfyi].THE CURSE OF RESOLUTION IN PHYSICS SIMULATIONSImagine watching water flow through sand at two different zoom levels. At low zoom, you see the overall current pushing through the domain. At high zoom, individual sand grains create turbulence and complex flow patterns that wouldn't be visible from far away. To capture both, you need the high-zoom video, which takes forever to compute. Yet you can't simply use the low-zoom version because those tiny grain-scale interactions fundamentally change how the bulk flow behaves.This is the core tension in finite element methods, the standard tool scientists use to approximate solutions to the differential equations governing physical systems. In these methods, computational cost scales brutally with resolution. Double your resolution in two dimensions and you create 16 times more elements. In three dimensions, that's 64 times more. This isn't a problem you solve by throwing more compute at it indefinitely. High-resolution simulations are accurate but prohibitively expensive. Coarse simulations are fast but miss crucial small-scale details that ripple through the big picture.The multiscale structures in physics aren't incidental; they're fundamental. Small-scale heterogeneity in materials, turbulent fluctuations in fluids, grain-boundary effects in crystals, all these phenomena affect macroscopic behavior in ways that can't simply be averaged away. Yet capturing them requires the computational horsepower of a high-resolution simulation, creating a genuine impasse between speed and accuracy.WHY TRADITIONAL MULTISCALE METHODS DON'T QUITE SOLVE ITResearchers have known for decades that you need something smarter than brute-force high-resolution simulation. The traditional approach looks like dividing a puzzle into pieces. You solve the problem at a coarse scale, figure out how that coarse solution influences the fine scale, then solve the fine-scale problem in each region, coupling the results back together. Mathematically, this works. Computationally, it's more involved than it sounds.Methods like homogenization and multiscale finite element methods are mathematically rigorous and can provide guarantees about their approximations. But they require solving auxiliary problems, like the "cell problems" in homogenization theory, to understand how fine scales feed back into coarse scales. For complex materials or irregular geometries, these auxiliary problems can be nearly as expensive as the original simulation. You're trading one hard problem for several smaller hard problems, which is an improvement but not revolutionary.The core limitation is that multiscale methods still require explicit computation of fine-scale corrections. You don't truly escape the resolution curse; you just distribute the work differently. For time-dependent problems or when you need to run many similar simulations, this overhead becomes prohibitive.SUPER-RESOLUTION AS LEARNED MULTISCALE CORRECTIONWhat if you bypassed mathematical derivation entirely and instead let a neural network learn the relationship between coarse and fine scales from examples? You run many simulations at both coarse and fine resolution, showing the network thousands of pairs, and ask it to learn the underlying pattern. Then, for new problems, you run only the cheap coarse simulation and let the network fill in the fine details.This reframes the multiscale problem fundamentally. Instead of asking "how do I mathematically derive the fine-scale correction from the coarse solution," you ask "what statistical relationship exists between coarse-resolution snapshots of physics and fine-resolution snapshots?" Train a network to learn that relationship, and it becomes a reusable tool.The brilliant insight is that you don't need to hand-derive the multiscale coupling. You're leveraging an assumption about the physical world: that small-scale structures follow patterns that are learnable and repeatable across different scenarios. If those patterns truly reflect the underlying physics, the network should generalize beyond its training distribution. It should work on upsampling factors it never saw, on material properties it never explicitly trained on.Continuous super-resolution bridges coarse and fine scales. The orange region shows in-distribution scenarios (upsampling factors up to 16x), while the blue region shows out-of-distribution tests where the method extrapolates to 32x and beyond. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/teaser_v2.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/teaser_v2.jpg]Continuous super-resolution bridges coarse and fine scales. The orange region shows in-distribution scenarios (upsampling factors up to 16x), while the blue region shows out-of-distribution tests where the method extrapolates to 32x and beyond.This is where the paper departs from typical deep learning applications. It's not just applying image super-resolution to scientific data. It's asking whether neural networks can learn and extrapolate the structure of multiscale physics.THE ARCHITECTURE: LOCAL IMPLICIT TRANSFORMERS LEARN ACROSS SCALESBuilding a network that handles both coarse context and fine reconstruction simultaneously requires solving a specific technical challenge. How do you make a neural network that respects multiscale structure, preserves both large-scale features and fine details, and works at arbitrary query locations, not just fixed grid points?The answer involves two key components working in concert. First, local implicit neural representations (LIIF) treat space as continuous rather than discrete. Instead of the network learning a grid of pixel values, it learns a continuous function that can predict the field value at any spatial coordinate, like x=0.1234, y=0.5678. The coarse module processes the coarse finite element solution and extracts features. The fine module takes those features plus a query coordinate and outputs the fine-resolution prediction at that specific location.Second, a transformer architecture handles the multiscale learning. Transformers excel at learning long-range dependencies and attention patterns, which maps directly to the physics: the fine-scale behavior at one location depends on coarse features potentially across a large region. The transformer learns which parts of the coarse domain matter for predicting details at any given location.The architecture processes coarse finite element data through feature extraction, then uses a local implicit function in the transformer to predict fine-scale corrections at arbitrary spatial coordinates. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/network_v2.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/network_v2.jpg]The architecture processes coarse finite element data through feature extraction, then uses a local implicit function in the transformer to predict fine-scale corrections at arbitrary spatial coordinates.The elegance of this design is that it separates the two jobs cleanly. The coarse module sees the big picture. The fine module handles spatial interpolation and detail generation. The transformer connects them by learning which coarse features to attend to for each fine-scale prediction.THE FREQUENCY PROBLEM: WHY GABOR WAVELETS FIX NEURAL NETWORK BLINDNESSHere's a subtle but critical problem that most practitioners would miss. Neural networks are biased learners. When you show them spatial data and ask them to predict values, they naturally learn smooth, low-frequency features first. Their internal "perception" gravitates toward blurry versions of the input. For multiscale corrections, this is backwards. You desperately need the network to pay serious attention to high-frequency details that create the fine structure.This isn't a failure of the network; it's a feature of how they learn. Low-frequency functions are often the "easy" solution that reduces loss quickly and smoothly. Standard positional encodings help somewhat, but the paper proposes something more targeted: Gabor wavelets as coordinate encodings.Gabor functions are sinusoidal waves modulated by a Gaussian envelope, and they're particularly good at capturing localized frequency structure. By encoding the spatial coordinates using Gabor wavelets instead of simple sinusoids, the network gets a built-in curriculum that encourages it to respect fine-scale structure from the start. It's like giving the network glasses that make high-frequency details visually prominent.The impact is visible in frequency-space analysis. Using radial power spectral density (RAPSD), you can decompose how much energy the predicted field contains at each frequency scale.Frequency analysis via radial power spectral density (RAPSD) shows that the proposed method preserves high-frequency content that simpler approaches lose, matching the ground truth spectrum more closely. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/rapsd_compare.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/rapsd_compare.jpg]Frequency analysis via radial power spectral density (RAPSD) shows that the proposed method preserves high-frequency content that simpler approaches lose, matching the ground truth spectrum more closely.The proposed method maintains the correct frequency spectrum. Competitors without this frequency-aware encoding produce outputs that are systematically too smooth, missing the sharp transitions and fine textures that characterize physical fields.COMPARING PATCHES INSTEAD OF PIXELS: STOCHASTIC COSINE SIMILARITYIf you want a neural network to produce physically realistic fine details, you can't just compare its prediction to ground truth pixel-by-pixel. A pixel-level loss function like mean squared error will push the network toward a blurry average of many possible fine structures, which looks wrong to human eyes and doesn't capture the structural patterns of real physical fields. The paper recognizes that "perception is often preferred over distortion," meaning scientists care whether the fine-scale pattern looks and behaves like real physics, not just whether numbers match exactly.The solution is stochastic cosine similarity (SCS), which compares local regions (patches) rather than individual points. Instead of asking "does prediction[pixel i] match ground_truth[pixel i]?", it asks "does the pattern of features in prediction[region j] match the pattern in ground_truth[region j]?" Cosine similarity measures how aligned two vectors are in direction, ignoring their magnitude. This encourages the network to get the structure right even if it's shifted slightly or scaled differently. Stochastic means you sample random patches during training, giving the network diverse supervision across the domain.Training curves show that incorporating stochastic cosine similarity loss improves convergence and final reconstruction quality compared to standard pixel-level losses. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/loss_curve.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/loss_curve.jpg]Training curves show that incorporating stochastic cosine similarity loss improves convergence and final reconstruction quality compared to standard pixel-level losses.This is a subtle but important detail that bridges the gap between mathematical accuracy and visual/structural fidelity. A network optimized only for pixel-level MSE will produce outputs that look blurry but have low numerical error. A network optimized with SCS learns to preserve the local structure and patterns that make the field look physically plausible to human inspection and domain-expert evaluation.IN-DISTRIBUTION VERSUS OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION: HOW FAR CAN THE PATTERN GENERALIZEThere's a critical question hidden in every learning-based approach to scientific computing: how much can the network actually generalize? If you train on simulations with upsampling factor up to 16x, can it handle 32x? If you train on one type of material coefficient, can it work on completely different physical scenarios?The distinction matters enormously. Any neural network can memorize training data. The real test of whether you've learned a physics-driven pattern, rather than just captured statistical artifacts of your training set, is whether it works on new configurations and extrapolation scenarios.The experiments are structured to test both regimes carefully. The network trains on coarse-fine pairs with upsampling factors up to 16x. Then it's tested on 32x upsampling it never saw during training, as well as scenarios with different material properties represented by different coefficient maps. This tests not just the model's capacity to interpolate, but its ability to extrapolate the learned multiscale patterns.Visual comparison shows the method handles both in-distribution cases (left, upsampling factor 16x) and out-of-distribution extrapolation (right, upsampling factor 32x). The reconstructed field structure remains recognizable even beyond the training regime. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/sota_mix.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/sota_mix.jpg]Visual comparison shows the method handles both in-distribution cases (left, upsampling factor 16x) and out-of-distribution extrapolation (right, upsampling factor 32x). The reconstructed field structure remains recognizable even beyond the training regime.The results show the method generalizes reasonably well out-of-distribution, though with some expected degradation as you push further from the training regime. This is the critical finding because it justifies calling this a "learned multiscale correction strategy" rather than just image super-resolution applied to finite element data. The network has learned something about how multiscale structure works in general, not just memorized specific examples.To understand how the network adapts across different physical scenarios, the approach includes conditioning on material properties. By feeding different coefficient maps to the encoder, the network learns to adjust its multiscale correction strategy based on the physical parameters.Conditional super-resolution demonstrates that the model adapts its correction pattern based on different coefficient maps and upsampling factors, showing learned flexibility across physical scenarios. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/condition.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/condition.jpg]Conditional super-resolution demonstrates that the model adapts its correction pattern based on different coefficient maps and upsampling factors, showing learned flexibility across physical scenarios.The network learns that different materials and heterogeneities require different fine-scale correction patterns, and it captures this adaptability in its weights.WHAT THE NUMBERS ACTUALLY TELL USAt the end, you need empirical validation: is this actually better than alternatives? How much better? The paper compares against other super-resolution methods, other learning approaches like basic neural networks and other implicit neural representation variants, and standard finite element upsampling baselines.The comparison metrics matter enormously because, as noted earlier, pixel-level error doesn't capture what scientists actually care about. The paper includes both traditional metrics (mean squared error, mean absolute error) and perceptual metrics that measure whether the fine-scale structure aligns with ground truth.Sliced pixel comparisons show the proposed method follows sharp transitions and fine details more closely than competitors, especially at boundaries and high-frequency regions. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/sliced_compare_v3.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/sliced_compare_v3.jpg]Sliced pixel comparisons show the proposed method follows sharp transitions and fine details more closely than competitors, especially at boundaries and high-frequency regions.When you slice specific pixel sequences and compare methods, the proposed approach tracks the ground truth more faithfully than alternatives. Competitors either miss sharp transitions entirely or smear them out, while this method preserves fine structure with fidelity.Residual visualizations reveal where the improvements are largest.Residual differences between the proposed method and simpler local implicit transformer baselines show that gains are concentrated in high-frequency regions and sharp transitions. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/csr.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/csr.jpg]Residual differences between the proposed method and simpler local implicit transformer baselines show that gains are concentrated in high-frequency regions and sharp transitions.The visualization multiplies residuals by 20 times for visibility, but the pattern is clear: the proposed method reduces errors especially where fine structure matters most, at boundaries and transitions between regions with different properties.The paper also tests the method on real-world soil pattern data, demonstrating that the learned patterns transfer to actual scientific data beyond the synthetic training regime.Real-world soil patterns show that the method generalizes to natural spatial heterogeneity, successfully reconstructing fine-scale structure from coarse observations. [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/real_world.jpg] [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.07576/real_world.jpg]Real-world soil patterns show that the method generalizes to natural spatial heterogeneity, successfully reconstructing fine-scale structure from coarse observations.This connection to real data is important because it grounds the work in practical utility. The method isn't just clever on carefully-curated synthetic examples; it works on the types of data scientists actually encounter.WHY THIS MATTERS BEYOND THE NUMBERSThe paper ultimately succeeds because it solves a three-part problem elegantly. First, it reframes multiscale simulation as a learned-pattern problem, replacing hand-derived mathematical relationships with neural network induction from examples. Second, it builds neural network architecture specifically designed for multiscale structure: local implicit representations for continuous spatial prediction, transformers to learn long-range dependencies, and Gabor wavelets to overcome the frequency bias in neural networks. Third, it uses perceptual supervision via stochastic cosine similarity to ensure the learned patterns are physically meaningful, not just mathematically smooth.The individual components are solid engineering. But their combination creates something genuinely useful: a system that learns a generalizable multiscale correction that works even on unseen scenarios, generating high-frequency details that reflect actual physics rather than neural network artifacts.For scientists and engineers, this offers a practical advantage. Run expensive multiscale simulations once to train a network. Then use that network to quickly augment fast coarse simulations with plausible fine-scale structure. It's not a replacement for rigorous multiscale mathematics, but it's a powerful complement, trading theoretical guarantees for computational speed and practical effectiveness. In domains like material science, fluid dynamics, and geophysics, where multiscale phenomena dominate and compute resources are finite, this kind of learned correction becomes genuinely valuable.Original post: Read on AIModels.fyi [https://www.aimodels.fyi/papers/arxiv/multiscale-corrections-by-continuous-super-resolution?utm_source=hackernoon&utm_medium=referral]271. How to Create Promotional Assets: An Insider's Guide into the World of Graphic DesignI offer you to go through the evolutionary stages of promo materials.272. Tencent’s Tiny Translator: How HY-MT1.5-1.8B Competes With Big Translation APIsMeet Tencent’s HY-MT1.5-1.8B: a compact translation model built for speed, edge deployment, and surprisingly strong quality.273. 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The distilled nature means it processes requests with reduced computational overhead compared to full-scale versions, making it practical for production workflows. The audio generation adapts to the visual content, ensuring temporal alignment and coherence with on-screen events and scene transitions.What can I use it for?Content creators can use this model to add professional audio layers to silent footage, completing video projects that lack proper sound design or dialogue. Educational institutions might enhance instructional videos with narration. Marketing teams can extend raw video captures with branded audio elements. The distilled version makes these applications accessible without requiring extensive hardware resources. Understanding how this fits into broader audio synthesis approaches can benefit from research into long-form video-to-audio generation techniques.Things to tryStart by testing with simple videos where the visual narrative is clear and straightforward, as the model will generate audio that corresponds to those visual cues. Experiment with different video lengths to understand the model's optimal range for audio generation. Try feeding it videos with distinct visual moments or scene changes to see how the audio responds to those transitions. Compare the generated audio quality against your original footage to identify where the model excels and where manual adjustments might enhance results.Original post: Read on AIModels.fyi350. Bad Hair Day? Not for Product ManagersHair provides a masterclass in creating enduring value propositions. Product managers will do well to emulate these (HAAIRR) attributes into their designs.351. 5 Commandments for Designing Award-Winning Hardware Products Learn how to design an award-winning hardware product from Evgeniya - an experienced and tech-savvy Head of Design at Concepter, and winner of 3 RedDot wards.352. Designing StreamplateAfter 3 years of developing, I’ve begun publicly marketing Streamplate.353. Advancing Online Education in Singapore: A Northell Case StudyModern education is becoming more and more digitized: while even ten years ago notebooks and printed materials were necessary for studying, all you need today is alaptop and an Internet connection. Various classroom management systems are now used for the education of all levels, from primary schools to corporate training. It is a sure way to make the learning process more efficient — for example, taking quizzes and tests online helps automate grading and provide immediate access to the student’s performance.354. Illustrations in Web Design: 11 Examples For Your InspirationAre you aware of all the opportunities that illustrations give?355. The Hidden Auditory Knowledge Inside Language ModelsThis is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called How Auditory Knowledge in LLM Backbones Shapes Audio Language Models: A Holistic Evaluation...356. The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Clever Programmer (11/3/2024)11/3/2024: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!357. Making a Product Design Great for Business [A How To Guide]In the first seconds of use, one application might seem more convenient because it’s easy to navigate and zoom, as well as to satisfy the user’s needs and solve their problem quickly. While comparing to another application that might look fancy and colorful but at the same time will confuse or even worse — distract the user. And of course, it will bring zero-value to them.358. Top 10 Gifts for Graphic DesignersThese gift ideas will help you surprise graphic designers and show your appreciation of their work.359. What About The Illusion Of Choice?Do you think your actions are the result of your own free choices? What if those actions are the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs? What does this mean for your free will?360. Twelve-year-old Selects His Favorite Tech and Design Picks of 2025A 12-year-old's thoughts on the outgoing year in tech and design.361. Facebook is Beta Testing a More Spacious New Newsfeed DesignSaw this on Facebook.com desktop today (flow follows):362. How To Design A Perfect Icon For Your Mobile AppYou have got an idea and now you want to convert it into an app. However, developing an app that gets millions of downloads isn’t a cakewalk. There are over 2.7 million apps on Google Play and 2.2 million on Apple’s App Store but just a few stand out.363. Copywriting For A New Client [Case Study]While I was talking with Vitor Amaral, creator of UpStamps, I was inspired by the design he uses for his homepage. It’s a clean homepage with awesome vectors that animate(!). Reading through the copy I noticed some things that could be improved which would increase his conversion. So let’s start!364. The Best Reasons to Adopt a Security-First ApproachBalancing data privacy and security with user experience is one of the most complex tasks for software developers.365. The Missing Data Problem Behind Broken Computer-Use AgentsThis is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called CUA-Suite: Massive Human-annotated Video Demonstrations for Computer-Use Agents [https://ww...366. 326 Stories To Learn About DesignLearn everything you need to know about Design via these 326 free HackerNoon stories.367. Solid Tips On How Get Better At Responsive Web DesignBetter Responsive Web Design, A Structured Approach368. 4 Reasons Why People Love Web Design And You Should Love It TooIt's so important how web UI is designed because people perceive images better and quicker than words. Luckily, most of the IT heads understand the value of an eye-catching UI, but few of them realize the real power of it. Actually, web design does much more than you used to think.369. Understand the Intent of Patterns And Principles Before Applying ThemTL;DR;370. Should Designers do Product Management?If designers should know how their product may be engineered, they should also know how it may be productized.371. Forget the Average User. Design for the EdgesThe idea of the “average” user is holding design back. When you embrace edge cases, you create better experiences for everyone.372. "Stop Crying, Be a Strong Man", Interview with Dana KachanThe 2020 #Noonies are here, and they are both much greener and much bigger than last year.373. How to Find Ideas for Web DesignLearn how to look for ideas properly so you don’t waste time and energy in the future.374. Inspiring Nostalgia With Branding: the Conference With the Movie ThemeThis is an article about how we made good use of branding and design to create experiences for 1000+ people.375. Does Canva Hurt or Help Graphic Designers? Hacker Noon on DesignDo time-saving apps like Canva help or hinder freelancers and digital creatives? Tell us what you think in a Tweet!376. How to Design a Powerful LMS Platform: Real ExampleThey were looking for a custom LMS platform that would be used by teachers, students, and parents.377. MOSS-TTS-Nano-100M Brings Multilingual Voice Cloning to CPUsThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called MOSS-TTS-Nano-100M [https://www.aimodels.fyi/models/huggingFace/moss-tts-nano-100m-openmoss-team?utm_source=...378. Accessible Design: Creating Inclusive User ExperiencesAccessibility and inclusivity are keywords that every kind of designer should understand and consider in the design process of any project, be it digital, physi379. Top 10 UX Design Principles to Use with Visually-Appealing WebsitesUX design principles help build durable solutions through new design patterns, interaction models, and standards.380. The History and Future of CAD in EngineeringThe first CAD hardware system, the Dimension III Systems from Calma, was operable with a keyboard and stylus.381. Sculpting the 3D World: 9 Simple 3D Design Tips for Absolute Beginners3D Design Tips for Beginners. If you want to become a 3D designer you should know these basic tips that help you to start your design career.382. Glossary: Design Systems Defined for Developers and DesignersDesign systems are interdisciplinary by nature. They are built and consumed by designers and developers, therefore it is important for common terminologies to exist to support the communication between these two disciplines and other related actors.383. A Self-Learner’s Guide to Combating UX Research & Design MisinformationUX education is saturated and it has become increasingly difficult to filter out the bad sources. Here’s how we can fix that.384. Top UI/UX Practices to Help Your Mobile Application Retain UsersThis article takes a deep dive into the top UI/UX practices that will help your mobile app succeed in App and Play stores.385. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Distills Claude-Style Reasoning Into Visible Step-by-Step AIThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled [https://www.aimodels.fyi/models/huggingFace/qwen3.5-35b...386. Designing for Everyone: Why Accessibility Is Not Optional in Modern SoftwareWe are still building software for users that don’t exist. A technical perspective on accessibility, real-world failures, and how to design for actual usage.387. Leave The Demographics Out of Your Design User PersonasUser personas can be problematic. Is there a way to turn them into a useful resource? Update them regularly, involve your team in the creation process and more.388. Design Thinking: What is it and Why does it Matter?Design thinking is a design process for solving complex problems. Also, design thinking is a human-centered design approach to tackle the challenges and finding389. Secrets Of The Design Process You Wish You Knew BeforeThe UX industry puts a lot of emphasis on processes. But is that the best way to think fundamentally about design?390. Easy & Clear: Variable Fonts GuideA basic introduction to Variable Fonts.391. Write a Kick-ass #Branding Story, Win $1,000!Write a #branding story to enter the branding writing contest by LogoDesign.net and HackerNoon. Win 1000Alexander Perelman is an award-winning art director and designer with over 15 years of experience in branding, visual design, and art direction.393. Designing a Fintech Startup Alone From BaliA solo designer shares lessons from building a fintech product remotely while traveling through Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, and the COVID lockdown.394. PixelSmile Solves the Ambiguity Problem in AI Emotion EditingPixelSmile tackles AI emotion ambiguity with continuous labels, symmetric training, and precise facial expression control.395. Step by Step Guide to Truncating Text in CSS TextLearn how to truncate text with CSS, truncate multiple lines and CSS truncate text with ellipsis.396. How to Find Awesome Graphics for Your Design Project When we work with website design and development, we often need to add a variety of different graphics.397. How Webflow is Redefining Website Design and DevelopmentWe’re here to give control back to our clients. That’s why we use Webflow to create a smarter and better website design that puts you in the driver’s seat.398. How Learning from the Physical World Can Help Us Design Virtual Reality ExperiencesThe principles we use to create effective VR and AR interactions have existed for as long as we have walked this earth.399. User Experience Vs. User Interface: Understanding the DifferenceWhen it comes to designing applications, modern businesses that want to be competitive realize the need to provide exemplary user experience, while also regarding user experience as the ultimate factor for success.400. 4 Tips For Redesigning Your logoThe best logos come across as simple and effortless. This is a difficult concept to wrap your head around when creating your first logo. In fact the number one issue I have had with most of my clients is their urge to overdo the design. Look at the logos of the world’s most successful brands like Nike, Twitter, or Apple. They are extremely simple and recognizable which is why I spend a good part of my time stressing this point to my clients.401. Software Has Taken Away The Human Element: Let’s Get It BackWhen you’re collaborating with your team, you don’t care about files. You care about the people. So why do companies put so much effort into developing tools and systems when they should be designing for interactions and relationships?402. I'm Not Going Back to Working for an Agency: Agencies vs Product DesignAfter 2 years at a Moscow agency and 4 years as a sole designer at a fintech, here's what actually changes when you go from an agency to product design...403. How We Built This: A Platform for Crowdsourced Design PatternsBuilt with Next, Apollo and MongoDB and deployed with GitHub Actions and Docker.404. Your Creativity is More Valuable Than The Tools You UseUsing a design tool isn’t a skill. It’s just good practice to display them in your portfolio to depict how strong you’re with the tool.405. D-Tier to S-Tier: A Practical Ladder for Design ResponsibilityA framework for thinking about responsibility as a game designer and creative thinker.406. How to Create Proper Layout, or What is So Bad About CSS Frameworks?The advantages of a marvelous layout, semantic markup, and separation of content from design have been already described hundreds of times. Still, there are developers who do not follow the concept of working with HTML and CSS, so they write such terrible things in the code such as:407. 182 Stories To Learn About Product DesignLearn everything you need to know about Product Design via these 182 free HackerNoon stories.408. 8 Design Portfolio Must-Haves8 tips from UX Practice Lead on how to create an ideal design portfolio.409. Why I Only Design Mobile Apps for One Type of Client NowAfter 23 failed apps, I now only design mobile products that belong on mobile: simple, focused, and built for real people in real moments.410. Want to Stop Wasting Hours on OpenGraph Images? Let's Fix That Together 👋 Developers spend hours tweaking OpenGraph images to get them just right.411. Designing a Dashboard? - Don't Make These 6 Common MistakesDashboards are an integral part of enterprise applications. When you design such an important element, keep some of the following tips in mind.412. Digital Marketing And Design: How The Quest for Success is Damaging Advertising DesignDigital Ads are everywhere. And at times it gets very hard for startups & new brands to standout in the crowd.413. The Design Work Nobody Posts on DribbbleFive years into product design at a fintech, the majority of my work is documentation, edge cases, and maintenance.414. How to Add a Dark Theme to a Web App Without Begging a Designer for HelpFind out how to add a dark theme to your web app by yourself. Improve accessibility of your application in a blink of an eye.415. Avatars Will Emerge as StorytellersHumans rule the world.416. How to Design for User Retention That WorksTips on how to create enjoyable and habit-forming UX/UI design in every digital product.417. WordPress vs Bootstrap: Choosing a Web Design Platform for Your BusinessIn this article, we will speak about two competing web design platforms that are extremely popular in the current market: WordPress and Bootstrap.418. Properties and Events Velo Panel Puzzled Out: Find Answers to Your QuestionsThe Properties and Events panel lets you work with the elements on yoursite with Velo. You can use Velo with all the elements on your site.419. Should You Validate Again? A Smarter Way to Handle Data TrustMost systems assume data is valid, causing redundant or missing checks. This article suggests modeling validated data as a separate type.420. Why Pixel Art May Be Greater Than PhotoshopWhat is pixel art421. The Pricing Model That Boosts ARR and Kills ActivationInvestors love usage pricing for net revenue retention. Product teams love it for clear tiers and aligned incentives. Consumer apps should still stick to fees.422. Using Interaction Techniques in UX to Influence The Design Of Your ProjectA Click Is Still a Click — Interaction Techniques in UX. How different interaction types influence user experience.423. The Noonification: GPT-3 in Your Pocket? Why Not! (1/26/2023)1/26/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!424. An Introduction to CSS for Aspiring Web DesignersCSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets.” It is a formatting language that allows us to visually improve our HTML tags (size, color, font, etc.). As the name suggests, it does it by cascading.425. Bad Idea Or Bad Luck: I Want To Know Your OpinionThis is a true story of something I witnessed a couple of years ago during my early days in tech. Was it a bad idea? A bad execution? or just an unlucky day?426. How We Tried To Fight Ecommerce Fraud at JunctionX Singapore HackathonIt has been a while since I’ve been to a hackathon. I always love that hackathon as an avenue to build something quickly within the 48-hour time constraint, the opportunity to sharpen my design skills, and network with fellow hackers. So when my colleague posted on Slack about JunctionX Singapore, I signed up!427. First Impressions Matter: How to Design a Product Page EffectivelyDesign the best product page for your eCommerce store to attract more customers to your website and make sales.428. 6 Reasons Why A New Web Design Is Important For Your CompanyYour website plays a critical role in customer acquisition and improves overall sales and revenue. However, understanding this significance and realizing the be429. Beauty Has Been Destroyed by UsabilityThe Cultural Tutor describes how beauty is being destroyed by usability.430. A New AI Approach to Surgical Navigation Skips ReconstructionThis is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Investigating a Policy-Based Formulation for Endoscopic Camera Pose Recovery [https://www.a...431. Ways To Increase The Conversion Rate On Landing PageTo get the highest possible conversion rate surely have tweaked your landing page, your ads are laser targeted and your bids are competitive. All the time in which you have stayed profitable your competitors would surely be thinking and figuring out the ways to improve, enhance and build trustworthy relations with their clients that could be yours, and it all happened in front of your eyes because their impression was better than yours and we all know that the first impression is the last impression. But still, there's some time in which you could increase the conversion rate on your landing page. To make it work we first had to discuss the ways to separate the fact from fiction.432. Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B Brings Olympiad-Level Reasoning to Sparse AIThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B [https://www.aimodels.fyi/models/huggingFace/nemotron-cascade-2-30b-a3b-nvidia?ut...433. The Noonification: The Issue With Crypto Transactions Today (7/16/2023)7/16/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!434. The Noonification: The Issue With Crypto Transactions Today (7/16/2023)7/16/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!435. Top 7 Instructional Design Principles in 2022As an instructional designer, the goal is to ensure learning occurs.436. We Need to Hear Both the Good and Bad Sides of Tech - Interview with Charlie GAn Interwith with Charlie G, the winner of “2021 HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ALGORITHMS”.437. The Mistake of Designing an App that is Output Driven, Not Outcome DrivenThe rise and eventual dominance of mobile applications in the current business arena is a telling sign of how user experience has become the biggest brand differentiator.438. 4 Questions To Ask Yourself Before RebrandingWhether you’re a solopreneur trading on your personal reputation orthe head of a conventional business, your branding has a huge impact onyour professional success. It informs how you’re perceived: if you’resending a message that doesn’t resonate, or simply failing to doanything memorable, then you’re likely to be considered mediocre oroverlooked entirely. Instead of just trying to make the best of yourunderperforming brand, though, you can start moving in a positivedirection by committing to a rebrand.439. 5 Simple Rules for Engaging Customer Journey on Your WebsiteThey say Life is a journey, not a destination. In the digital world too, your business’ success depends on how profound journey you can provide to your consumers. Websites, social media, email, chats, apps, etc. define whether a visitor will be converted as a consumer by the experience you give on each platform. The website is the biggest online property of your business so you should provide an engaging customer journey on the website. One way to do is to create an excellent design that leaves the users in awe and makes them stick to your web pages.440. Turning the Compiler Into Your Co-ArchitectPolymorphic constructors aren’t built-in, but enums + static arrays can emulate them safely. This gives compile-time guarantees with scalability and performance441. The Art of Enterprise Search: 4 Tips for Effective ImplementationExplore common issues in enterprise search and discover 4 user experience-driven solutions for seamless access to valuable information.442. The Industrial Shift Towards In-House Prototyping and Design via Additive ManufacturingThe adaption of 3D Printing has allowed for innovation in manufacturing that renders several benefits that I will get to in this article.Additive manufacturin443. Are UX And UI Equally Important: What Experts Have To SayThis Slack discussion by Sadia Mehmood, Muhammad Bilal, Akasha Rose, anthony watson and Shahmeer Khan occurred in slogging's official #introductions channel, and has been edited for readability.444. UI/UX Errors: Don’t Blame the User, Re-Evaluate Your Design Strategy InsteadThe solution is to redesign the product in such a way that it prevents errors from occurring in the first place.445. How to Design For Users You Can't Talk ToThree years of enterprise B2B design at VALK with almost no user research access - and the proxy methods that replaced it....446. The Case Against Text Prompts for AI Sound GenerationAC-Foley shows why text prompts limit video-to-audio generation and how reference audio enables finer control, timbre transfer, and zero-shot synthesis.447. Game Design First: A Beginner’s Free ToolkitGame design isn’t about production tools or techniques. It’s about having a clear vision and a plan.448. How Developers Can Cultivate and Evaluate Problem Solving SkillsWhy we should all shift our gaze from the tools we have to the nature of problems and to their solutions.449. Working Together: How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate While Building ProductsThe success of your website or app strongly depends on the cooperation between the designers and the developers. It’s not about the professional skills of either group. You get a competent designer to make you a beautiful layout which you then pass on to an equally professional and experienced developer. Suddenly it turns out it can’t be realized without major changes!450. Why the Right Design MattersDesign is at the heart of innovation in the fast-paced world of technology.451. Design: When Does It Stop Being Enough?After 5 years as VALK's sole designer, I realized I want to build, not just design. On the gap between what I designed and what shipped.452. Understanding the Stages of the Sales Funnel and How it Relates to Your WebsiteThe sales funnel attracts consumers to business products or services, and it also convinces them to buy the respective product or service.453. Will AI Tools Help Professional Designers? Or Render Them Obsolete?Designers are the rockstars of the digital industry.454. Build Real-Time Creative Tools with Flux-2-FastFlux-2-fast generates and edits images in about a second, making it ideal for interactive creative tools—plus the exact settings to try.455. Four Years Inside One Figma FileWhat four years as the sole designer on a fintech product teaches you about depth, restraint, and the trade-offs agency work never prepares you for....456. Running A/B Tests You Can’t MeasureA/B testing can be one of the highest-ROI tools in growth. It's a major unlock in optimizing a business. I have personally launched hundreds of tests. When I...457. My First Year as a Design ModeratorOkay, so it hasn’t actually been a year. It’s been slightly over eight months. But I digress. Since February of 2019, I have been a moderator on a discord community named DesignCourse (Coursetro). Created by YouTuber Gary Simon, this place serves as a forum for questions and discussions regarding all sorts of design and development related topics. Recently, I realized that I have grown as a mod, as a developer, and as a person, since that day in February.458. The AI Wave in Graphic Design: Shaping the Future of CreativityDive into the world of graphic design and discover the profound impact of AI on creativity's future. Explore the AI revolution in graphic design today.459. On Creativity, Starting Out on My Own, and My 2021 Noonies Nomination Hua is a designer and entrepreneur based in New York City. She shares her journey in founding her startup below.460. Why Can’t Designers Promote Themselves?Most job titles are inherently clear. You know what they do. You have a good idea of their value. One of the exceptions here is the title of designer. I've previously tried to explain what I do to my parents without any real success. What they have held onto after all these lengthy explanations is that I work with 'computers'.461. Meet GLM-Image: A Hybrid Text-to-Image Model Built for Typography, Layouts, and Dense InfoThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called GLM-Image maintained by zai-org. If you like these kinds of analysis, join AIModels.fyi or follow us on Twitter.Model overviewGLM-Image combines an autoregressive generator with a diffusion decoder to create images from text and perform sophisticated image editing tasks. The 9B autoregressive component generates a compact visual token sequence, which the 7B diffusion decoder then expands into high-resolution outputs. This hybrid architecture delivers competitive image quality while excelling in scenarios demanding precise text rendering and knowledge-intensive details. Unlike pure diffusion models that struggle with text accuracy, this approach handles complex information expression with greater fidelity. The model maintains the semantic understanding capabilities of GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking while specializing in visual generation rather than multimodal reasoning.Model inputs and outputsGLM-Image processes both textual prompts and image inputs to generate or modify visual content. The system accepts text descriptions of arbitrary length and complexity, along with optional reference images for conditional generation tasks. The model outputs high-resolution images ranging from 1024x1024 to 2048x1024 pixels, maintaining visual coherence and detail quality across diverse generation scenarios.InputsText prompts describing desired image content, including detailed specifications for layout, composition, and visual elementsReference images for image-to-image tasks such as editing and style transferMultiple reference images for maintaining consistency across subjects in multi-image generation scenariosGuidance parameters controlling the strength of prompt adherence and generation diversityOutputsGenerated images in PNG format at specified dimensionsHigh-fidelity visual content with accurate text rendering and fine-grained detailsEdited or transformed images preserving identity and compositional elements from source imagesCapabilitiesThe model generates images from text descriptions with particular strength in information-dense layouts. Recipe illustrations with ingredient lists, numbered steps, and visual hierarchies render with precise text and accurate proportions. Image-to-image capabilities include background replacement, style transfer between images, identity-preserving generation for people and objects, and multi-subject consistency maintenance. The decoupled reinforcement learning training using the GRPO algorithm enhances both semantic alignment and visual detail quality, with the autoregressive module improving aesthetic understanding and the diffusion decoder refining texture fidelity and text accuracy. Post-training feedback signals target low-frequency features like composition and high-frequency elements like texture, creating nuanced control over output characteristics.What can I use it for?Design professionals can generate detailed marketing materials with embedded text and complex layouts without manual typography adjustments. Educational content creators produce recipe cards, instructional guides, and infographics with embedded text that renders correctly on the first attempt. E-commerce businesses create product photography variations with consistent branding and identity. Visual artists explore style transfer to apply artistic treatments while preserving subject identity. Publishers generate magazine layouts and illustrated guides combining dense information with high visual quality. The model's accuracy with text-based content opens applications previously requiring manual post-processing or graphic design expertise. Compare this capability to Z-Image-Turbo for efficiency-focused workflows or visualglm-6b for combined understanding and generation tasks.Things to tryTest the model's text rendering accuracy with prompts containing typography-heavy content like posters, menus, or certificates. Generate illustrated recipes or instructional manuals with step-by-step visual guides and embedded text descriptions. Perform background replacement while preserving foreground subjects, then compare results when providing multiple reference images for consistency constraints. Apply artistic styles to photographs while maintaining face identity for personal portrait variations. Create magazine-style layouts with multiple content sections, experimenting with guidance scale values to balance creative interpretation against strict prompt adherence. The Glyph Encoder text module distinguishes this model from standard diffusion approaches, making typography-intensive generation a particularly revealing test case.Original post: Read on AIModels.fyi462. This 40B “Loop” Coder Model Tries Twice So Your Code Doesn’t Have ToThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct maintained by IQuestLab. If you like these kinds of analysis, join AIModels.fyi or follow us on Twitter.Model overviewIQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct represents a specialized variant of the IQuest-Coder-V1 family, a collection of code language models built by IQuestLab for advanced software engineering tasks. This 40 billion parameter model uses a recurrent transformer design that processes information through two iterations, allowing it to balance model capacity with practical deployment requirements. The Loop variant achieves competitive performance on major coding benchmarks including SWE-Bench Verified (81.4%), BigCodeBench (49.9%), and LiveCodeBench v6 (81.1%), placing it alongside other leading code models like the standard 40B Instruct variant.Model inputs and outputsThe model accepts natural language instructions and code-related prompts, processing them through its 128K token context window to generate coherent code solutions and explanations. It produces code snippets, complete implementations, debugging assistance, and technical explanations based on user queries.InputsNatural language instructions: Requests for code generation, refactoring, or debuggingCode snippets: Partial implementations to complete or improveProgramming problems: Tasks requiring algorithmic solutionsChat messages: Multi-turn conversations formatted for instruction-followingOutputsGenerated code: Complete, working implementations in multiple programming languagesCode explanations: Detailed breakdowns of logic and functionalityDebugging suggestions: Fixes for errors and optimization recommendationsTechnical documentation: Comments and explanations embedded in generated codeCapabilitiesThe model handles complex coding scenarios through its code-flow training approach, which learns from repository evolution patterns and real-world development workflows rather than treating code as static text. It supports up to 128K tokens natively, enabling it to work with entire files, multiple related modules, or detailed project context without requiring additional scaling techniques. The Loop mechanism allows the model to refine its outputs iteratively, improving solution quality within a single generation pass.Temperature settings of 0.6, TopP of 0.85, and TopK of 20 are recommended for optimal performance. The model demonstrates strong reasoning capabilities for competitive programming problems, tool usage in agentic software engineering scenarios, and general-purpose coding assistance tasks.What can I use it for?Organizations can deploy this model for autonomous code generation pipelines, reducing development time on routine implementation tasks. Software engineering teams can use it as a pair programming assistant that understands repository-scale context, helping developers navigate unfamiliar codebases or generate boilerplate code. The model serves well in educational settings where students need immediate feedback on coding exercises, or in enterprise environments building internal coding assistants. Companies building developer tools can integrate it via the vLLM framework to create OpenAI-compatible APIs, monetizing through usage-based pricing or subscription tiers.Things to tryExperiment with providing the model large code repositories or entire project directories within the 128K context window to see how effectively it understands interconnected code relationships and generates implementations that maintain consistency across multiple files. Test its performance on complex refactoring tasks where understanding the broader codebase matters more than isolated code generation. Try using it iteratively within a single conversation to progressively improve and debug implementations, leveraging its instruction-following design for multi-step problem solving. Compare its outputs against the standard Instruct variant to understand the practical differences the Loop mechanism introduces in solution quality versus generation speed.Original post: Read on AIModels.fyi463. 6 Examples of Higher-Level Skills to Grow as a DesignerNo designer was ever promoted for knowing every Figma trick.464. Why Most Personal Brands Fail at Visual Identity (And How to Fix Yours in 5 Minutes)Most personal brands have a visual identity problem. Learn why aesthetic coherence matters more than any single design choice, and discover a quick way to find your true visual style.465. Why Hits Feel Different Now: Mobile Chases TikTok, Console Chases CommunityReflections on attention, platforms, and audience expectations.466. I Added Text to My ‘Pure Icon’ Site after 8 Years. Here’s WhyAfter many years, I went from pure icons to adding descriptive text.467. How To Use Faster One Font: Quick Tipshow to choose font, how to design, learn design, what's a good font, faster one font468. Why I Built the Anti-Bloat Presentation ToolBuilt in 30 days, this AI presentation SaaS went from rough prototype to finished product through fast iteration, smart constraints, and less bloat.469. What is Your Logo's Super Power? 4 Things That Your Logo Needs in Order to Save Your BrandWhat is your brand logo doing for you? Is it saving your brand, swooping in like a hero?470. Why Self-Distillation Can Make AI Reasoning WorseThis is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs? [https://w...471. Inside Graphic Design: A Look at Alepo's Rebranding for the 5G Era Digital enablement and core network solutions provider Alepo has unveiled its modernized logo and updated branding.472. Compliance Isn’t Enough in Emerging MarketsCompliance alone won’t protect cross-border investors. Learn why defensible structures matter in emerging market deals.473. Design: A Strategic Capability for BusinessesThis is a summary from my interview with Tim Bouckley. The conversation is apropos the evolution of design as a capability within the software field, and its role in traditional companies’ digital transformation.474. The Button That Teaches People to Stop Paying Attention"Maybe Later" buttons feel polite but kill user success. Why that innocent onboarding escape hatch causes higher churn rates and how to design guidance user.475. Attention Sinks Are Quietly Rewriting How Transformers WorkAttention sinks are widespread in transformers. Learn what they reveal about model behavior, computation, and the limits of attention analysis.476. How to Prompt HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Think-32B for Better Multi-Step AnswersThis is a simplified guide to an AI model called HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Think-32B maintained by naver-hyperclovax. If you like these kinds of analysis, join AIModels.fyi or follow us on Twitter.Model overviewHyperCLOVAX-SEED-Think-32B is a text-to-text language model developed by naver-hyperclovax that combines advanced reasoning capabilities with efficient model design. This model represents part of NAVER's effort to create high-performance language models without simply scaling up parameter counts. The Think series focuses on enhancing reasoning abilities through specialized training techniques. Similar models in this family include the HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Think-14B, which uses pruning and knowledge distillation techniques, as well as text-focused alternatives like the HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B for lighter-weight applications.Model inputs and outputsThe model processes text input and generates text output, making it suitable for conversational tasks, reasoning-heavy problems, and text generation applications. With 32 billion parameters, it handles complex linguistic patterns and multi-step reasoning tasks that require deeper computational capacity.InputsText prompts of varying lengths and complexityInstructions for specific tasks or reasoning problemsContext for understanding user intent and domain-specific knowledgeOutputsGenerated text responding to input promptsReasoning chains that show intermediate steps for complex problemsStructured responses formatted according to task requirementsCapabilitiesThis model handles sophisticated text understanding and generation tasks with particular strength in reasoning-heavy applications. It can tackle multi-step problem solving, provide detailed explanations, engage in extended conversations, and process complex instructions. The architecture emphasizes both reasoning quality and computational efficiency, enabling practical deployment across various scenarios without requiring the largest possible models.What can I use it for?The model serves well for applications requiring deep reasoning, such as question answering on complex topics, technical content generation, code explanation and debugging assistance, and educational tutoring. Companies can leverage this model for customer support systems that need to handle intricate queries, content creation platforms requiring nuanced writing, and research applications where reasoning transparency matters. The efficient design makes it viable for integration into products where computational resources are limited compared to larger alternatives.Things to tryExperiment with prompts that explicitly ask for step-by-step reasoning or chain-of-thought explanations to unlock the full potential of the reasoning capabilities. 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