Boulder Project Manager Happy Hour May 14, 2013
About a month ago Becky put together the Inaugural Boulder Project Management Meetup. Based on the excitement about the event, we’re doing another one! Join us next Tuesday night, May 14th, 6 PM, at...
View ArticleThe Neo Fallacy: How Our Mental Model of Developers Leads to Bad Bug Reports
In two previous posts about writing better bug reports, I've detailed the information developers need to be able to reproduce — and hence diagnose and fix — bugs. Since then, an unstated assumption in...
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Single-click layer exporting in Photoshop
Use this sweet photoshop action to save out layers and groups with one click. One of the most repeated tasks in the build-out process is saving out an individual asset in the comp as a .png or .jpg....
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Building a Traffic Heatmap with Google Analytics and R
For all of the reporting power that Google Analytics provides, occasionally I want to see data in a way it doesn’t natively support. Most recently, I was interested in understanding hourly and daily...
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Share, Grow, Repeat
At Viget, we believe in sharing. We share our ideas on our blogs, we share our knowledge at industry events, we share our entrepreneurial experiments via Pointless Corp, and we share our adventures in...
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How Startups Get to Great Design: Q&A from Boulder Startup Week 2013
As part of Boulder Startup Week, Viget hosted a moderated panel session, How Startups Get to Great Design. With over 150 people in attendance, this event built upon the success of our 2012 event...
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DIY Photobooth and Slideshow: A Quick How-To Guide
One thing that makes our annual Viget birthday celebration so memorable is having our entire team together in one place. We always make sure to capture countless photos, but this year we added a new...
View ArticleThree Reasons I Hate Laptops in Meetings
As someone who has been a professional software developer for quite some time, I often joke that each year I hate technology more and more. I'm not going to "check in" on Foursquare, won't ever use a...
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One of Your Deliverables Should Be Education
Every Friday at Viget we gather for a company-wide meeting and lunch (brunch for our Boulder folks) and during that time one of us delivers a short presentation on a relevant topic. We call it a...
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Join Your Friends at Viget for the “Tour de Avery”
Hello Boulder friends. To celebrate the wonderful spring weather, we're organizing an event we're calling the "Tour de Avery". The idea is simple: Grab your bike (or rent one from a B-cycle kiosk)...
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The Big Argument for Responsive Design
At our last TTT, Viget’s company-wide quarterly event in April, Mitch Daniels, digital analyst, shared some thoughts on the state of the mobile web. He’s posted about The Rise of The Second Screens...
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Auto-Saving Screenshots on Test Failures & Other Capybara Tricks
Recently, when working on a JavaScript-heavy Backbone.js + Rails application, I spent a significant amount of time working with Capybara and the JavaScript driver Poltergeist for automated browser...
View ArticleWeb Interfacing With Arduino
So, you've got what it takes to turn on LEDs and move some motors around using your trusty Arduino. You also have some skills writing web code. Here’s a simple walkthrough of how to combine your great...
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Say Viget, The Game
Viget is an awesome company with a strange name. It (roughly) means "flourishes" in Latin. But, unless you're a Latin scholar, knowing how to pronounce "Viget" can be difficult (and, even if you are,...
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Finding Completion Points Within a Project
The feeling of being “done” is hard to beat I recently started receiving the Denver Post on a daily basis. When I began the subscription, I was unsure if I would actually read it, given the...
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“Anything But Work”: Viget During Downtime
We talk a lot about work-life balance around here. We proudly offer benefits like 15 paid days off (and more earned over time), 9 paid holidays, 2 community service days, and flex hours -- all to...
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Edit Your Corner Radiuses with this Photoshop Script
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been using this script (h/t Mark) to accomplish something that I’ve wanted to do for quite a while: easily edit corner radiuses in Photoshop. Judging from the teaser...
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Five Practical Uses for Dribbble for Designers
Dribbble. Maybe you love it; maybe you loathe it. Since its launch in 2009, it's become a popular way for designers to share peeks at what they're working on, or just promote their latest projects....
View ArticleMeet Viget’s 2013 Interns!
Summer officially started at Viget last week with the arrival of twelve interns ready to spend ten weeks walking our hallowed halls in all three locations, learning about our work and culture,...
View ArticleStay Curious
Over the past year, one thing has become abundantly clear to me. Design is super hard. Being brilliant and conjuring up creative solutions on demand is stressful work. Over time, the added challenge...
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