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Doing the Neighborly Thing: How Viget's Apprentices Helped a Local Nonprofit...
The Win-Win-Win Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association (ECWA) is a small North Carolina-based organization that works tirelessly to improve the health of Ellerbe Creek and its surrounding land. Given...
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Designers Tooling Around: Principle
Animation! We talk about animation a lot. It's a great time to be a designer in search of an animation prototyping tool. There is a wealth of choice out there these days, covering a variety of needs...
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Animation Performance 101: Browser Under the Hood
Web animation may be one of the few areas in life where everyone can agree — we want it silky, smooth, and seamless. Take this animation for example: Via Paul Irish The one on the left feels stilted...
View ArticleAnimation Performance 101: Optimizing Javascript
In [Part 1](link to part 1) of this series, we went over why CSS is typically better for animation than Javascript — Javascript always runs on the browser’s main thread while CSS can offload to the...
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Animation Performance 101: Measuring with Dev Tools
.image-block {margin: 0 auto;max-width: 800px} In the last part of this series, we’ll take a look at the most important part of performance: how to measure and diagnose bottlenecks. Performance...
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Educating Your Clients is a Vital Project Management Skill
Contracts have been signed, teams have been reserved, and budgets have been agreed upon. Now it's time for the fun part to begin: doing the work. As the Project Manager, it’s up to you to set the...
View ArticleHow to Get the Most Out of a Research Project
User research is an important part of the design and development process. It helps you understand problems and validate ideas so you can create a better experience for users. If your company has...
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Why Your MVP Needs a Brand Strategy
Viget has a long history of working with startups at every stage of their growth. Over the years we’ve helped a wide variety of organizations innovate through development, design, or both. Along the...
View ArticlePerfMatters Conference Recap
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending PerfMatters, a web performance conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a two-day, single track conference with an optional workshop and...
View ArticleHow Associations Can Increase the Value of their Websites
Earlier in my career, I worked with mission-driven professional associations and trade organizations. I’ve seen firsthand the magic these organizations have to transform their industries and...
View ArticleWhy and How to Start an Office Book Club
Viget is full of avid readers. 40% of Viget employees belong to our #books Slack channel where book lovers share recommendations and discuss books. We almost exclusively talk about books that we read...
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Value Over Invention: Breaking Down the Promise of IoT (Part 1)
This article is part of a series, stay tuned for Part 2. There was a time when data was not everywhere - at least, not for us. Digital information was created, processed and stored through the active...
View ArticleA Better Approach for Using Purgecss with Tailwind
A number of us at Viget have been using TailwindCSS recently, and -- at least for the converted -- it’s been simply awesome. We’ve already written about some lessons learned, and this is another take...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes from New Applicant to New Hire
If you’ve applied for a job before, you’ve probably wondered what’s going on behind the curtain after you hit the “submit” button. Our process is a little different for each position, and we try to...
View ArticleBuilding Your Tribe: The Many Faces of Mentorship
When people ask me about my favorite mentor, I usually refer to a colleague I worked with at a French television station more than 7 years ago. We were assigned to create a TV show together, and...
View ArticleAwwwards Conference 2019: A Recap
Three(ish) weeks ago, Ally Fouts, Julia Thummel, and I went to the Awwwards conference in San Francisco. I came back inspired to take risks and try new things...which I promptly applied to the...
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Level Up with Craft CMS: Know When to Ditch Twig
Twig is an extremely powerful templating language, and I am always grateful that Pixel & Tonic chose an open source templating language. But, there are times when you can start to push your Twig...
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Celebrating 19 Years of Talent
Quarterly retreats are a longstanding tradition at Viget. Since our founding, we’ve taken a day each quarter to step away and focus on us. We come together, reflect on progress, share new ideas,...
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Value Over Invention: Breaking Down the Promise of IoT (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article series, we outlined a high-level overview of the Internet of Things and established a philosophy for identifying the value of potential use-cases of connected devices. Using...
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You Should Use Snowplow
What is Snowplow? Snowplow is a flexible and dynamic data collection platform that gives you complete ownership of your event data pipeline. It runs on the cloud of your choice, Amazon Web Services...
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