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Four Lessons from Hopscotch Design Festival
This year marked the second annual Hopscotch Design Fest in Raleigh, NC. I’ve been lucky enough to attend both times, and have been inspired and excited by the amazing designers (including locals and...
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Should You Use a Custom Scroll Indicator? A Study with Eye-Tracking
In recent years, I’ve noticed more and more websites using custom UI elements to indicate how far the user has scrolled down a page. Custom scroll position indicators come in many forms: variations on...
View ArticleTimely Product Development
Having recently enjoyed an incredible weekend at our Pebble Rocks Boulder hackathon, I'm once again reminded of how little time it actually takes to build incredible products. And once again I'm...
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Let’s Brand a Hackathon!
Viget recently organized, Pebble Rocks Boulder, a weekend-long hackathon focused on hardware like the Pebble watch, wearables, 3D printing, etc. (Read all about the actual event here!) My job for the...
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Designing for Accessibility: 3 Things To Watch For
Accessibility has long been an interest for our designers. Back in 2009, Viget design team alum Samantha Warren wrote a post about designing for accessibility right here on the Inspire blog. It...
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Five Characteristics (and Examples) of Successful Digital Campaigns
When I gave my talk to the sixth class of Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders (EWCL), a key topic I covered dealt with common characteristics of successful digital campaigns I’ve encountered over...
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Fun and Games with Design Challenges
At Viget, we work on everything from content sites to complex applications. Accordingly, as UX designers, we need to maintain a well-rounded and contemporary set of skills that we can draw upon as...
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By the Numbers: 2015 Internship Applicant Volume and Sourcing
Every autumn, after bidding farewell to our summer interns, we take some time to look back on our internship recruiting data from the past year. We’re interested in tracking our performance and...
View ArticleNaming My Tech Values
When you think about technology, what matters to you? Not to your company, or to the industry, and certainly not to the media. But to you, as an individual who works and builds on the web—what do you...
View ArticleGet Lazy with Custom Enumerators
Ruby 2.0 added the ability to create custom enumerators and they are bad ass. I tend to group lazy evaluation with things like pattern matching and currying – super cool but not directly applicable to...
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A Google Analytics Dashboard for Front-End Developers
Say you’re a front-end developer who is building a great new website. As you plan out your platform and resources, you probably have some questions about how people are using the existing website so...
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What’s In a Name: “Advisor” vs “Mentor”
Developer Advisor, Chris Jones, left. Developer Intern, Athif Wulandana, right. One core commitment we make to interns when they join Viget each summer is: “You’ll work closely with an Advisor.”...
View ArticleWhat is Different about Copywriting at Digital Agencies?
We hope to hire a second creative copywriter at Viget soon, and I’ve been busy processing applicants. Ideally, all job candidates would have full awareness of what working here might be like. In...
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Saturdays with Django
This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Django Girls RDU event. This workshop, hosted by a neighbor of the Viget Durham office, Caktus Group, is part of the global Django Girls initiative,...
View ArticlePaper Prototyping, Revisited
Paper prototyping is the kind of activity that you practice in school but don’t see a lot of in the real world. At least that’s been my experience here at Viget where we tend to collaborate on the...
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Dealing with Noise in an Open Office Setting
We have open office floor plans at Viget. While there are benefits to an open office, there are also downsides. Like noise. For some people (like moi) who have issues focusing when there are...
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Signal vs. Noise: Color as a Wayfinding Tool
Used carefully, color can become a helpful wayfinding tool to better help a user know where she is and where to go next. When it comes to user interface design, you may want to limit your use of...
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Improv: The Secret to Being A Better Tech Professional
If I asked you to describe the list of qualities in a successful tech professional versus a successful improv theater performer, you probably wouldn’t give me two lists that looked very much alike....
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Beyond Content Management
Nobody is excited by content. The word itself implies a sterility and blandness that is antithetical to our clients' work. And when you build systems to create and manage content, the resultant...
View ArticleHow to Implement Accessibility in Agency Projects: Part 1
If you're interested in making the sites you build more accessible to visitors with disabilities, or if you want your colleagues to be more aware of accessibility issues, it can be hard to know where...
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