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Snapchat is the Donald Trump of UI Design
A few days ago, I enjoyed reading Carmel DeAmicis’ article on Medium, Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI? If you haven’t read that article yet, you should stop now and give it a...
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Vigets On The Move: How We Plan Travel
From our biannual, all-company Third Third Thursday events to client meetings and conferences, Vigets are often on the move. As a company, we travel over 500 nights per year — and I’ve always thought...
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Looking Back at SXSW 2017 with Viget
If you were in Austin last week, you may have seen us running around, giving workshops, or enjoying some local eats. SXSW 2017 was a blast, and we were able to catch up with friends and the latest...
View ArticleTips for Landing a Design Job
When we’re looking for design candidates, I spend a good chunk of time combing portfolios and creeping around LinkedIn. It brings back memories of how I felt at the start of my career. Namely......
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Shame the Confirmshamers
When you deactivate your Facebook account, you aren’t politely bid adieu. Instead, you’re shown pictures of yourself with all of the people who will “miss” you now that you’re no longer sharing your...
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How We Grew Viget’s Email List 135% In A Year
Around this time last year, we completely revamped our email strategy, including the way we cultivate our email subscriber list. Over the past twelve months, we’ve used a variety of content marketing...
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What Not to Wearable: Part 2
In Part 1, I outlined strategies to coordinate the design goals of digital and physical products. Now, I want to take a look at how employing those strategies might yield wearables that appeal to a...
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What Not to Wearable: Part 1
With every advance in connected technology, potential new features abound. Sensors monitor your fitness performance or sleep quality. Haptic vibrations in insoles guide you to take a left or a right,...
View ArticleHow to Redirect from the Phoenix Router
Introduction In this article, we'll walk through how to redirect from the Phoenix router. This article assumes some prior knowledge around Plug and the Phoenix Router. All of the following code has...
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The Advantage of Comparative Research
No matter how new a problem may be to us, we are never the first person to tackle it. There are always examples to learn from. That said, the way we learn from others’ examples can make the difference...
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How We Defined the UX-Product Management Relationship
Earlier this year, Viget embarked on a huge effort to design and build a drag & drop email editor for iContact in just three months. Although time was short, we had a large team, and our...
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Performance Loading Font Picker Previews
How well a site or app performs on the front-end can be the result of many different factors. If it performs well, the overall user experience is much more likely to be positive. On a recent project,...
View ArticleTwo Ways to Share Git Hooks with Your Team
Git hooks are a useful feature that can be used to manage the integrity of your source repository. On my current project, I wanted to ensure that all my Go source files were formatted correctly before...
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JS App Continuous Deployment (for every branch) using CircleCI & S3
Recently at Viget, we've been developing a number of highly interactive client-side applications. We've long been believers in continuous integration and continuous deployment, which typically...
View Article5 Tips for Managing Client & Team Expectations
I recently bought a car. Throughout the entire sales process, I was excited. For my new ride. For the extra accessories and service plan I negotiated into my deal. For the trade-in value I’d get for...
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Rethinking Real Estate Tech: An Exploration
Ask a homeowner what it’s like to buy a home, and they’ll probably tell you about the agonies they’ve faced. Our experiences of the travails of home buying – and the ways digital technology helped and...
View ArticleThe Next Real Estate Frontier: Relieving Buyer Anxiety
Few life events bring such trepidation, anxiety, and stress than purchasing a home. The process is complex and littered with vocabulary and legalese that makes even the most intelligent person feel...
View ArticleOne build tool to rule them all—Blendid!
Introducing Blendid!—the culmination of over three years of steady progress and community contributions in pursuit of the perfect front-end toolset. It's a stand-alone blend of fully configurable...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Legacy Web App Maintenance
Before we jump into the nerdy bits here, let's take a moment to honor the true thinker of Zen, author Robert M. Pirsig, who passed away April 24th, 2017. Quality . . . you know what it is, yet you...
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The Secret to Turning Ideas into Working Features
When we talk about development process, we tend to focus on process artifacts and rituals like tickets and sprint planning meetings. But how does a ticket become actionable in the first place? How do...
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