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Introducing POLITICO’s 2016 Election Coverage
Politics has a lot in common with sports. Highly skilled professionals duke it out in regular electoral contests. Political parties command an irrational amount of team loyalty. The complexity of the...
View ArticleBaaS at Scale
A client-side app backed by a backend as a service (BaaS) like Alphabet's Firebase can be a terrific architecture for scalability. But what exactly are the limits of your BaaS? Do you know how it will...
View Article5 Tips for Saving SVG for the Web with Illustrator
Authoring SVGs in Illustrator is easy. Authoring an SVG in Illustrator and then properly exporting it for the web can be... tricky. Here's a short list of tips for avoiding common problems with...
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Building a Healthy Office Environment
February is American Heart Month! In honor of this, I thought I’d talk about how to make your office a little healthier. It’s worth noting that I have a degree in dietetics so my zeal for healthy...
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Running Your First Digital Project
New to digital project management? Well, so am I! This past fall, I joined Viget as their first Digital Project Manager (DPM) Apprentice. During that 10-week crash course in project management, I had...
View ArticleACA Reporting Solution, FTW
As most businesses know by now, the new year brought new IRS reporting requirements related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). For a company the size of Viget -- just over the 50-person threshold to...
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Dress Up Your Git Diffs With Word-level Highlights
p.chris-photo { text-align: center; } p.chris-photo img, p.chris-photo span.caption-heading { display: inline-block; } Oh, hey. I didn’t see you there. How’s it going? You look nice today. If you have...
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Your Guide to Healthy SEO
Search drives the web -- roughly two-thirds of website visitors originate from organic search. This search traffic represents a tremendous opportunity to present your product or service to customers...
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How to Be a LinkedIn All-star
LinkedIn is ubiquitous across nearly every industry, and it’s often the first impression of you or your business. As a major social platform, it’s accessed by 34% of online adults every week, and with...
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Follow Viget at SXSW 2016
As February draws to a close, the collective interactive agencies, techies and brands of the world are preparing for talks and workshops, planning their own schedules for panels, pinging contacts and...
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Using Visual Loudness for Better Wayfinding
“It needs more ‘pop’.” Can I tell you how many times I’ve heard that phrase? It’s the sad reaction to a design that could lack proper emphasis. My reaction is usually something like, “if everything...
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Speaking the Same Language About Research
I recently wrote about how we’re taking steps to do more research at Viget. Part of that effort is educating teammates on high-level, pragmatic topics like how to talk about the benefits of research...
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Designing PCBs with Unique Board Edges
This holiday season we continued one of our cherished holiday traditions -- homemade company vige-gifts. It’s a project on scale with a mini kickstarter and requires time from nearly every lab. This...
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Let The (Puppy Bowl) Games Begin!
Last week, we had the extreme pleasure of being a part of the launch of the 2016 Puppy Bowl Fantasy experience! The Puppy Bowl Fantasy Game follows the model of fantasy football. You draft a team,...
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Planning for Scalability
We recently launched The Puppy Bowl Fantasy Draft. Most apps that we launch experience their share of traffic spikes, but this app was unique. The event-oriented nature and popularity posed some...
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Starbnb: Discover exotic places with local hosts in a galaxy far, far away
A Starbnb is Born Late last year Viget celebrated Pointless Weekend, an annual internal hackathon that pushes us to concept and build something original in just 48 hours. The weekend starts with a...
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10 Lessons Learned from University (.edu) Redesigns
So, it’s time to redesign your college or university website. Where do you begin? How do you make the project a success? What are some things to watch out for? With so much to consider, the whole...
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Announcing... Gifbowl!
We Vigets love games. We’re known to host game nights at the office, discuss our favorite board games over beer, and even bring games to our holiday gift swaps. So, when our annual Pointless Weekend...
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Forever a Student: Fostering A Learning Mindset
Soon I’m embarking on a new adventure; I’ll be heading off to code school full time to learn software development. Transitions are a good time for introspection, so I’ve been wondering what it will...
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Boulder, Meet the Busy Board
The Viget Boulder office is nestled in the heart of downtown Boulder, a couple blocks off historical Pearl Street Mall and mere yards from the Boulder Transit Center. Every day a parade of locals pass...
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