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Remote Events: Finding Ways to Come Together
Each spring and fall we kick off our quarterly all-hands meeting, aka TTT, with an all-staff photo. Our team, events, and our photos have evolved over the years, but the spirit in which we meet has...
View ArticleHow We Prevent Leaky Templates in Craft CMS
Way back in September 2019 (which feels like a lifetime ago, but what even is time anymore), we came across an article about how to prevent leaky templates with Craft CMS. What is a leaky template? A...
View ArticleHow to Leverage UX Research to Adapt the Sports Fan Experience
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every industry, from small businesses to large international corporations — you’ll be hard-pressed to find an organization that’s managed to escape its...
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Web Brutalism, Seamfulness, and Notion
Taking a dig at Jakob Nielsen’s po-faced disapproval of Flash, Joel Spolsky wrote a post that has been echoing around the internet for the last 20 years. It’s short and funny, so I’ll quote it all...
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Monitor Site Speed With Chrome UX Report and Google Apps Script
An oft-overlooked measure to compare before and after a website redesign is site speed. We’ve assembled a comprehensive guide to allow you to monitor the percentile under which your site falls,...
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How to Make Your Own Conference at Home
In April of this year, I used yeast for the first time. It went well. Shockingly well. I realize it’s supposed to go well, but not all of my lockdown baking adventures had been successful (see:...
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Seeing the Forest: Using Treejack for Multi-language Navigation Testing
Internationalization approaches have evolved to make it increasingly easier to display content in visitors’ native languages without overhauling (or duplicating) source code. And browser webpage...
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Brand Marketing and Direct Marketing in the Age of Subscription
One does not simply watch the film version of Hamilton. If you’d like to watch Hamilton, you have two options and one of them is illegal. So, one option. You have to purchase a subscription to...
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When and How to Use Vue 3.0 with Craft CMS
In the ever-changing landscape of Javascript environments, Vue JS has enjoyed widespread popularity and increasing adoption since its last major release in 2016. And for good reason: it can manipulate...
View ArticleBuilding Blocks of Elixir: Plug
Welcome to the wonderful world of Plug! We’ll be exploring the ability of this powerful Elixir tool to build web applications. This general introduction to Plug will guide you through a beginner...
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Viget’s Favorite Indie Bookstores
As someone who loves books, I feel blessed to work at a place like Viget where many of my co-workers share my passion for reading and provide an outlet for my bookish enthusiasm. In addition to a love...
View ArticleThe Business Cost of Slow Site Speed Performance
Consumers today rely on access to digital content and services. And this means consumers of all types – online shoppers, patients accessing a telehealth service, or an association member searching for...
View ArticleTaking an Ethnographic Approach to UX Research
As an anthropologist by training, I’m often asked how my ethnographic approach to research fits within the fast pace of UX and design thinking. How can something like “slow” ethnographic research...
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Music ... makes the Vigets ... come together
Communal music-making is a huge part of my life. I’m in a cover band — not to hear myself sing, but to get people dancing. There’s nothing like connecting so elementally with someone that they’re...
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Making Virtual Events Magical
This year has been a whirlwind for so many of us. We’ve all had to adapt, adjust, change course, and test our limits. Viget is no different. There is no way we could have prepared ourselves for the...
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Viget's Favorite Books of 2020
2020 has been a doozy. Sometimes we’ve been able to use books as an escape. At other times, we’ve had to set reading aside for a bit. But we still have some favorites from the year. These aren’t...
View ArticleSurprise & Delight: 2020’s Best Employee Gifts
Viget exists to make the digital world a better place for everyone. The People Team at Viget exists to support and propel the careers of the strategists, designers, and engineers who create that...
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The Upgrade Before Christmas
It's the week before Christmas, and all through Viget South, Not a person is stirring (the pandemic kicked us out). But in everyone's home, there's a desk, there's a chair, And so work continues, even...
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What to Expect when Installing Algolia Site Search
In the past, when a client requested a smarter search for their site, that maybe “automatically completes common searches” or “accounts for misspellings” in a way that seems “similar to Google,” our...
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Don’t Be the Next Quibi
It’s been over two months since streaming challenger Quibi announced it would close its doors and by now, the media has thoroughly dissected its rise and fall. Commentators basking in schadenfreude...
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