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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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