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The Folio

All the work that's fit to print

From the editor

Welcome to the edition. What follows is a selection of work, written up the way it actually happened — the false starts, the breakthroughs, the things that shipped. Read on.

Lead Story

Rebuilding the checkout that everyone gave up on

How a nine-field form and a wall of hidden fees became a four-step flow — and what it took to get there.

By the desk · Vol. IV

Rebuilding the checkout that everyone gave up on

It began, as these things do, with a problem nobody wanted to own. The brief was three lines long and the deadline was yesterday — but somewhere in the constraints was the shape of a good idea.

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