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Why Your Internal Teams Will Love Webflow
Every year, it seems like there's a new tool that revolutionizes how we structure our projects. Figma streamlined design and development workflows, while Notion consolidated project management tools...
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Panel by Panel: A Comically Fun Way to Use Figma
At Viget, we spend most of our time bringing our clients’ visions to life by putting incredible content and product experiences out into the world. That’s a pretty savvy way to run a company if you...
View ArticleHow to Thrive Being the "New Kid"
We’ve all been there. It’s the morning of your first day of work and you’re about to head into the office. It’s an hour before your start time and you are out the door – rushing to the nearest...
View Article7 Tips for Reviewing a UX or Design Portfolio
On May 25, 2023, we're teaming up with our friends at Triangle UXPA to host virtual portfolio reviews for emerging UX designers. So naturally, we've been thinking about what advice to give managers...
View Article9 Tips to Help You Nail Your Next Portfolio Review
Viget recently partnered with our friends at Triangle UXPA to host regular portfolio reviews. Our goal for these specific events is to help connect with designers from marginalized communities who are...
View ArticleCareer Coaching Series: Interviews
In my life before Viget, I was a university career coach. I now sit on the other side of the table as a recruiter in tech, connecting talented folks to opportunities here at Viget. In this series,...
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What’s in a Word? Building a Verbose Party Game
Fun group party game. Somehow incorporate AI. Build it quickly. These were the constraints we put on our mostly Colorado-based Pointless Corp. team before Pointless Palooza. A few of us wanted to...
View ArticleThe Career Path to UI Development is Changing
As a UI Development Director at Viget, I work in the tried and true stack of HTML, CSS, and JS. I’ve worked in some combination of that stack for the past 15 years or so, with some variation of the...
View ArticleImproving Design Presentations By Keeping the Client in Mind
In school you learn that "great design speaks for itself." And the instant you're out of school, you learn there's actually a lot of speaking involved. Great design deserves a strong advocate, as it...
View ArticleWhy startups should hire a product agency to build the MVP
One of the first major decisions facing software startups is how to assemble a team to design and build their MVP. For over two decades, we've served as this team for many early-stage startups. Here...
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Color Outside the Lines with Partial Circular Gradient Image Borders
Applying gradient borders to elements is fairly straightforward these days with CSS border-image and color functions. However, applying the effect to other use cases might require other approaches....
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Make It AND Break It: A Breakout Session Recipe That Maximizes IRL Time
TTT is one of my favorite Viget traditions. Especially our in-person ones, which are memorable and delightful mixes of work and celebration. We laugh together (sometimes ‘till the wee hours of the...
View Article5 Pillars for a Strong Client-Agency Partnership
I've worked in an agency environment for about six years now. I love the fast-paced environment, working across various industries, and being a creative problem solver. When people ask what types of...
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Maintenance Matters: Code Reviews
Code review isn't all just catching bugs and LGTMs. It improves readability, helps keep everyone up to date, and is a great place to learn and discuss things that don't have obvious answers. Multiple...
View ArticleOvercoming Anxiety in Code Reviews
As a developer, your coding workflow likely includes creating a pull request (PR) on GitHub and tagging another developer on your team to perform a code review. If, like me, you’re a developer with...
View ArticleWhy UTM Parameters Do Not Work on WP Engine
I recently ran into a problem where UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) parameters were not changing the content on a WP Engine site. My first thought was that the entire page was being cached, but after...
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Conf-essions of a Developer: The Biggest Takeaways from Config 2023
Straight away, I'm really excited by what I saw at the conference. For those who missed it, I highly recommend checking out the keynote as it's well-paced and packed with tons of new and exciting...
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Conf-essions of a Design Team: The Biggest Takeaways from Config 2023
Config 2023 is Figma’s first in-person conference since the pandemic and they just announced some huge features that will change the way designers, developers, and other team members interact with the...
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Building Motion for the Web: In the 'Zone'
This article is part one of a series unpacking how we’re working to define and implement motion at Viget. We recently sat down across the different labs at Viget with the following question: How can...
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"Can You Hear Me Now?" Choosing the Best Tools for Project Communication
At Viget, we have a go-to toolbox that we leverage in service of project communication. It’s not particularly fancy or unique; in fact, it includes tools most people are probably already familiar...
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