Anh Tran, Dwarves' Head of UI, shares her 5-year journey from graphic design to becoming the UI wizard behind the company's visual identity, highlighting the importance of communication between designers and developers

Anh Tran

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Toan Ho shares his pride in Dwarves Foundation's community-building spirit, open-source contributions, and supportive work environment

Toan Ho

#12 Toan Ho on community building

Tai Pham shares his experience as a Backend Engineer at Dwarves, highlighting the welcoming community culture and active knowledge sharing both internally and with the wider tech community

Tai Pham

#24 Tai Pham on community spirit

guidelines for project collaboraton DF and Client

Collaboration Guideline

Liquidity

How to borrow company assets like books or devices, or request new ones. Simple steps for getting the gear you need.

Request an asset

Borrowing & requesting company assets

A guide on how to check in at the office and claim ICY token rewards.

Office check-in process for earning ICY

Meetings are important, but they need structure to be productive. This guide covers the essentials for running meetings smoothly, respecting everyone's time, and getting things done.

How to conduct a meeting

A step-by-step guide to setting up your @d.foundation email alias to send and receive mail directly within your personal Gmail account.

Configure your company email

You will always grow by learning and playing with new and cool technologies. From books to conferences, you’ll get a yearly budget for your learning and development goals.

Continuing education allowance

To make working together flexible and productive, we follow a few simple rules for meetings and group work. Here's how we keep meetings effective.

Effective meetings

We use email as our formal tool for both internal and external communication. Every email is utilized for a specific field, which comes along with different instructions.

Email use

Email Communication and Use

A consistent on leave process prevents a company from being accidentally disrupted when an employee request to be absent.

Leave request

Submit a leave request

Strong relationships are core to our culture, and 1-on-1 meetings are how we build them. Managers meet with direct reports regularly (usually weekly) to connect. Here's how we do 1-on-1s and tips to make them count.

1-on-1 meetings

Password Sharing

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Sometimes the situation calls for realtime payment. Team lunch, device purchase, house cleaning, monthly drinking water. Normally, we pay it forward and claim those expense later. The reimbursement will be included in your payroll of that month.

Reimbursement

Taking screenshots of them shouldn’t be that challenging. In this article, I’ll take you through my screenshot workflow with a handful of simple tools and techniques and grab screenshots with negligible effort.

How to take better screenshots on Mac

To help all our Dwarves team members, create original, helpful, and consistent writing across various platforms, we've put together this content guideline as a reference whenever we're writing for Dwarves.

How I create content for multiple platforms

Learn how to create a Map of Content (MOC) for knowledge hubs. This guide introduces MOC's benefits and providing a step-by-step process for organizing and linking notes effectively

How to make a MOC

This is a guide on how to setup your environment and settings to push content to our notes website, memo.d.foundation.

How to push content on memo.d.foundation

Recapping a publication is the work of summarizing its key points, analyzing why it matters, and providing insights or opinions on its content. At Dwarves, we follow a set of must-dos and set expectations for recapping a publication, to ensure we have a clear and insightful summary that can contribute to readers' understanding of the topic.

Recapping A publication

How to set up environment to edit memo

Level up your Markdown memos: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Following the core theme of MMA (Mastery, Meaning, Autonomy), every piece of content we put out requires a strategic approach, so it can cut through the noise, serve purposes and meanings to readers. Whether we're crafting a note, article, research report, or digital post, the process and cycle remain largely the same...

Life cycle of a publication

Here are the simple steps we follow each week to keep the Memo content pipeline organized and our team informed.

Memo meeting

This guide will help you step-by-step create content and publish on memo.

Memo publication workflow

We use the AARRR framework to measure and optimize every phase of a product by optimizing it through the insane focus on one metric at a time.

aarrr

Design sprint mostly applied to the Exploration phase. Friday is usually Education event or Lab projects at Dwarves Design, learning and continuous professional and personal development are in the core of our DNA. No one wants to settle, everyone wants to take the next step forward.

Design Sprint

Design systems enable teams to build better products faster by making design reusable, reusability makes scale possible.

Low-fidelity prototype: UI Design

When we conduct an estimation, it is recommended to abandon the transitional “exact hours” assessment method, instead, use the story point based on the Fibonacci number (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…). The number expresses an estimation of the overall effort required to fully implement a backlog item or any piece of work.

Estimation Guidelines

Introducing the OGIF Memo Summarizer, a chatbot we developed using Dify in collaboration with @innno_. This tool transcribes YouTube videos and extracts key points from our Oh God It’s Friday (OGIF) sessions. By providing both short and detailed summaries in English and Vietnamese, it significantly enhances our ability to review and reference the diverse knowledge shared every Friday.

How we crafted the OGIF summarizer bot to streamline weekly knowledge-sharing

A comprehensive guide to understanding liquidity pools in blockchain, covering their definition, functionality, the role of automated market makers (AMM), arbitrage, pool depth, slippage, how to provide liquidity, and the concept of impermanent loss. This article provides insights for both beginners and experienced users in decentralized finance (DeFi)

Liquidity pool

In this article, we will look at some simple principles for designing error-tolerant interfaces and how to apply them to improve user experience.

Designing for Forgiveness: Creating Error-Tolerant Interfaces

Writing Content for Multimedia Guidelines

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a software development process that encourages collaboration among developers, QA, and non-technical stakeholders.

Behavior Driven Development

Error Messaging

Container Queries is a CSS feature that allows us to style elements based on the size of a container.

CSS Container Queries

Tailwind is not another Bootstrap, a `justify-center` class maps exactly to 1 line of css code, you have total control over what is being shipped to the user, whereas a `.btn` class in Bootstrap expands to +50 line of css styles and custom variables, you can customize it but it will not be a joyful experience.

The Best of CSS TLDR

An introduction to Generative UI (genUI), a user interface that generates interactive elements in response to user needs using AI, enhancing UX in chat applications. The article explores examples, benefits, and popular solutions like the Vercel AI SDK for implementing generative UI.

What is Generative UI?

Designing the UI for a blockchain-based hedge fund platform like Hedge Foundation is not just about creating a visually appealing interface. The real challenge lies in ensuring that complex financial data is presented in an intuitive, understandable way that helps users make quick investment decisions. Optimizing the UI plays a crucial role in allowing investors to access accurate data without feeling overwhelmed by excessive information.

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