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Launching Documents of Freedom, A Digital Take on the Traditional Textbook
The Bill of Rights Institute is dedicated to teaching young people across the country about America's founding history. Besides offering access to the the texts of founding documents like the...
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Comic Con and Creativity
Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to take some time off to attend the New York Comic Con. While I considered my trip a mini-vacation, it taught me a few important lessons in creativity....
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Getting Crafty
Here at Viget, we have been using ExpressionEngine as our primary off-the-shelf CMS for years. Craft and Statamic, both of which are developed by EE add-on developers, have really caught our...
View ArticleStreamline Your Workflow with the GA API
While Google Analytics (GA) is our go-to analytics tool across almost every project, sometimes pulling many pieces of data from within the interface grows tedious and time consuming. In these...
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Visualize Traffic Data on Site Maps Using Google Analytics and Omnigraffle
Two of our greatest loves at Viget are information architecture and analytics data -- but, it can be a challenge to easily visualize both at the same time. A crucial part of re-architecting a site...
View ArticleHotfix or Not? Managing a Successful Release Process
It's obvious that good communication is critical to the success of any project. On a recent large project, the many layers of communication needed to coordinate some daily operations have become even...
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A Safe Place to Fail
Image Credit: Blair Culbreth This recent Huffington Post article about the culture differences associated with hiring Generation Y has gotten a lot of buzz within HR and recruiting circles lately....
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Launching Vitae with The Chronicle of Higher Education: An Online Career Hub...
Professional growth and sharing is a big part of our culture at Viget — with each other and the larger web community. And whether it’s blogging, joining a panel at a local event, or planning a meetup...
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Purpose, Then Product: A Place For Emotional Design in Ecommerce
Look at any really successful product brand and you’ll see that they build their brand around a purpose, not a product. Our decision making is largely guided by our primitive brain, and that’s what we...
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Using Google Analytics API - I got the Magic Script
Simply put, Google’s Magic Script makes accessing Google Analytics from within Google Spreadsheets as easy as falling off a log. If you look at web analytics often, do yourself a favor by...
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A Movember to Remember
Around town, awkward moustaches are sprouting up all over the place. Your social feed shows both men and women alike on maniacal, moustachioed missions with everything from the real thing to...
View ArticleJust “UX” It – How To Apply UX Thinking to Real Life Projects (and Karaoke)
Oftentimes, I find myself starting a project at home by saying I need to “UX” something – my room redesign, my weekend plans – you name it, I’ll “UX” it. This is just my way of saying that I’m going...
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Khan Academy’s New Avatars: We Made Them, Now You Can Name Them
If you’ve ever wanted to name a cute avatar that’s going to be seen by thousands of people around the world, here’s your chance. We’ve been working with our friends at Khan Academy to help brainstorm,...
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My Take on Phone Interviews
I've been doing phone interviews at Viget for six years. The phone interview happens early in our recruiting process, usually after a resume and skills review, and before any quizzes, homework, or...
View ArticleA Focus on PM Training: The Next Boulder Web Project Manager Happy Hour
On Thursday, November 21st, Boulder-based, web-focused Project Managers will get together for another Happy Hour. Based on a poll of what topics were most interesting to members, this meetup’s topic...
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Creative Workshops: Think Differently
Last year Leo Burnett Worldwide wrote about their experience with Farmhouse Lab during Chicago Ideas Week. They assembled a group of innovators and big thinkers for a workshop titled Reinventing the...
View ArticleHow To Create PDFs in Rails
We worked with The Bill of Rights Institute recently to create an interactive digital course for American History teachers. One of the interesting challenges, among many, stemmed from the fact that...
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EarthEcho Gets a New Site for a New Adventure
We’ve been a long-standing friend and proud creator of EarthEcho International and Philippe Cousteau’s sites, so when Philippe called us up to chat about EarthEcho’s new initiative, we were excited to...
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Designing Device Assets: Templates and Tips
In olden times, as long as you remembered to create a favicon you were golden. Now, between phones, tablets, retina screens, iOS 7, Windows 8, everything and the kitchen sink, there are literally...
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Behind the Design: Khan Academy Avatars
About two months ago, Khan Academy asked us to create avatars for the new Learning Dashboard which launched in August. We thought it would be a fun experience for students to see their avatars evolve...
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