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Project Management Gone Global
Viget recently partnered with Lenovo to redesign the technology brand’s blog platform. This was an interesting project for many reasons, one of them being the global reach of the blog. Lenovo is a...
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Wildlife Alert: An App to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
In its effort to save wildlife and wild places, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has programs targeted at the growing crisis of wildlife trafficking -- the illegal trade of protected wildlife...
View ArticleBuilding a Multi-Step Registration Form with React
We've really enjoyed working with React here at Viget. We've used it on client projects, personal ventures, and most recently on Pointless Corp. One great feature of React is how it handles the state...
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Refreshing Search: Testing Search Box Variations
One of the most interesting research studies I’ve had the chance to work on during my time at Viget was an experiment to optimize the design of a keyword search box. Our team ran this experiment to...
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Interactive WCAG
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is an invaluable resource for developing accessible websites, and necessary if those sites need to conform to a specific accessibility level. But for...
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15 Conferences to Attend in 2015
Every January, as we look ahead to our professional growth over the coming year, we remind our staff of one of our favorite perks: fully-funded conference attendance. Viget proudly covers the cost for...
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Rocky Mountain Digital Project Manager Presentation: Aten Design Group
On Thursday, January 22, Rocky Mountain Digital Project Managers will get together for another great presentation from local digital leaders. With a new year comes a new format for RMDPM meetups....
View ArticleRubyists: Just use double-quoted strings.
TL;DR If you've written Ruby, you've heard it before: Use single quoted strings unless you need string interpolation. It makes sense, right? When I instantiate strings using double quotes, the Ruby...
View ArticleA Different Way to Think About Digital Project Managers’ Work
As I reach my four-year Vigeversary, I want to surface something that's bothered me for a while about how digital project managers are perceived and how we perceive ourselves. There's a gaping hole in...
View ArticleNow and Later User Experience Design
As a child, I was baffled by my parents' reluctance to feed me candy at mealtime. Candy made me happy. Didn't they value my happiness? Of course they did, but like most parents, they knew that to make...
View ArticleOTP: a Language-Agnostic Programming Challenge
We spend our days writing Ruby and JavaScript (and love it), but we’re always looking for what’s next or just what’s nerdy and interesting. We have folks exploring Rust, Go, D and Elixir, to name a...
View ArticlePhoto Shoot Planning Tips
I recently project-managed my first full-service photo shoot. It was a two-day, two-location shoot, with 19 models and 10 unique sets, each with a variety of scene setups. The shoot was for Viget’s...
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Collaborate with Google Slides, Deliver with Keynote
There are two days left before the big client presentation and you've been preparing for it for almost a month now. You're working through the last bit of feedback from your team and tweaking the...
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OTP: Matlab Solution
Matlab isn't the most popular programming language out there (especially given that an individual license will run you over $2,000**), but it's incredibly powerful. For me, it also has a nostalgic...
View ArticleOTP: a Functional Approach (or Three)
I intially started the OTP challenge as a fun way to write some OCaml. It was, so much so that I wrote solutions in two other functional languages, Haskell and Elixir. I structured all three sets of...
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Visualize Your Vocals with the Brand New Shure Design Studio
It’s official: the Shure Design Studio has launched! The Shure Design Studio lets you customize your Shure microphone with pre-fab images, your own images, and text. I have been working with Shure...
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Pixel Perfect Text Between HTML5 Canvas and ImageMagick
Recently we built a tool for designing microphones in the browser. When a user is ready to make a purchase, the server generates a super high-resolution version of their design for checkout. This...
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Designing for Microphones
We recently launched Shure Design Studio, a tool that lets anyone create custom microphone handle designs. Designing a fun, usable UI for this project was a blast. Possibly even more fun: the project...
View ArticleProject Managers’ Other Work, Part 1: Introducing Definition and Documentation
This post is part of a series about the heretofore-unarticulated areas of digital project managers' work that make up a large portion of the job. Read other posts in the series: A Different Way of...
View ArticleCome Share Your Work at Refresh Boulder
Working on fun side project? Just launched a client site you're particularly proud of? Interested in getting quick feedback on something that's in progress? At the upcoming Refresh Boulder event,...
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