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How-To: URL State Sharing / Deep Linking using Microcosm
How many times have you received a link to a website from a loved one, you visit it, and the site doesn't know how to load the proper data? I'm looking at you airline sites...We should be nice to our...
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Blendid HTTP/2 Upgrade
After spending about a year experimenting and blogging about how HTTP/2 is going to improve performance and finding ways it can be applied to projects, we have added an HTTP/2 upgrade to Blendid so you...
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Low Volume Sourcing Techniques
Low volume manufacturing can be a logistical nightmare. You might think that vendors who could help you simply won’t because you don’t represent a significant quantity of work. You might also think...
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Why Connecting Hardware with the Web is So Neat
We just wrapped up development on Lightwalk, an interactive art installation living at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. For a number of reasons, this has been one of the most interesting...
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Making Interactive Art
This summer, we built an interactive art installation in the middle of a college campus — a journey designing, manufacturing, and installing Abilene Christian University’s Lightwalk. Now that it’s...
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A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screens
In the fight for the short attention span of our users, every performance gain, whether real or perceived, matters. This is especially true on mobile, where despite our best efforts at performance, a...
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Can a Blockchain Help Charities?
Imagine a world where your charitable donations always made a difference. A world where a charity could be run with minimal overhead. This charity would allow you to see what path your donation took,...
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How to Be Good at Being New
Starting a new job is hard. You have to get to know new people, follow new processes, and learn new tools all within an unfamiliar environment. You have to learn what is expected of you, how...
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XR: VR, AR, MR—What's the Difference?
What is XR?Extended Reality (XR) refers to all real-and-virtual environments generated by computer graphics and wearables. The 'X' in XR is simply a variable that can stand for any letter. XR is the...
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Cut the Noise - Five Slack Features You Need to Use
Slack is a core part of my day-to-day. It's the tool that I spend the most time in and it's how I handle all internal communication, including project, team, and company discussions, from 1:1...
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To Meet or Not to Meet...That is the Question
One of the most frequent dilemmas I experience as a Digital Project Manager (DPM) is whether something warrants having a meeting...and if it does, who do I invite?Nobody likes having too many meetings,...
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A Look Back at Viget’s First Apprenticeship Cohort
This week, our first cohort of apprentices wrap up their 10 week-long Viget experience. The apprentices are filling out feedback surveys, their advisors are preparing their final review lunches, and...
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What Matters Most When You Apply: Six Myths Debunked
Job searching is daunting. Polishing your cover letter(s), perfecting your resume, and finding a professional photo for your LinkedIn is practically a full-time job in itself. Sure, college career...
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Benchmark Your Unmoderated User Testing with Nagg
Unmoderated user testing is an important tool in any user researcher’s toolkit. At Viget, we often use Optimal Workshop’s unmoderated tree-testing tool, Treejack, to make sure that users can find what...
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Triggering Individual Animations on a Timeline with Lottie-web
In our recent collaboration with the Ad Council and AARP, we created a chatbot experience to walk users through a set of questions and serve them personalized action items to prepare for retirement....
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A More Data-Informed, Action-Prone Culture
According to SoDA’s recent study, “acting on the data” was the most common data challenge — ahead of “getting the data I need,” “accuracy,” “timeliness,” and “interpreting the data that I have.” If an...
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Copywriter Seeking Rejection
There are few things I fear more than rejection. In the past, my method for dealing with the dreaded “no” resembled my method for dealing with spiders: if I saw one coming, I ran.Why? Because rejection...
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Seven Tips to Make the Most of Close Mentorship
“I know I'm capable of doing great things, but I’m not sure how to start. If only I had a mentor!” This is a common refrain from talented early-career folks.Mentors are, indeed, transformative. I’ve...
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How to Implement Accessibility in Agency Projects: Part 2
In part 1 of my series, How to Implement Accessibility in Agency Projects, I discussed some of the high-level challenges faced when implementing accessibility in client service companies and how we’re...
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How to Pull off a Pointless Crime
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. There are tiny Christmas trees interspersed throughout the office, folky holiday tunes on the speakers, and tubs of special popcorn in the kitchen. But most...
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