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Being Agile with Agile
We're living in a world of agility. As a computer science student, I was taught that agile is good and waterfall is bad. Coming out of undergrad, it seemed like agile or bust. In the working world,...
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What I Love & Hate About Tailwind CSS
I’ve been building websites for a long time professionally now. Since tables were still used for layout, through the web standards movement, testing sites on IE 5.5 Mac, when Position is Everything was...
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Designing Beacon: Maintaining Organization at Scale
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve learned that moving quickly and being flexible in healthcare processes can make a huge difference in decreasing the spread of infection – and increasing the...
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A Tale of Two Strategies: Reconciling Content Strategy and SEO
I started this blog post as I often start blog posts, by writing the headline. And I regret it. I should have done that last. Because now I’m staring at said headline and asking myself distracting...
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9 Takeaways for Product Managers from A Philosophy of Software Design
“If we want to make it easier to write software, so that we can build more powerful systems more cheaply, we must find ways to make software simpler.”I recently read a great book (A Philosophy of...
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How COVID Has Changed the Viget Internship
Each summer, all of Viget looks forward to welcoming interns to our offices. We’re proud to be able to provide a strong training program that complements interns’ fields of study, and we enjoy learning...
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Viget's Pro-Bono Initiative
In 2020, Viget, like the rest of the United States of America, found itself reflecting inwardly and outwardly on its role in furthering racial justice in the country. As a result of this reflection,...
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10 Platforms Creating Space for Black Joy
We’re experiencing an unprecedented moment and are more physically isolated than ever. Being intentional about holding space for one another collectively is necessary for us to not just survive, but...
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5 Organizations We Want You To Know About
Last year, Viget released a Commitment to Progress around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in response to the nationwide protests that occurred around police brutality and systemic racism in this...
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How Writers Make Brands
If you had asked me in college if I would ever consider a career in branding, I would’ve said no. If you had asked me why, I would’ve explained earnestly that I’m a writer, not a designer, and writers...
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How does Viget JavaScript?
At Viget we have many ways of writing JavaScript, but when it comes to our front-end team the default is the data-module pattern. Over the years this pattern has evolved and changed.A long time ago...
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Let’s Write a Dang ElasticSearch Plugin
One of our current projects involves a complex interactive query builder to search a large collection of news items. Some of the conditionals fall outside of the sweet spot of Postgres (e.g. word X...
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The Three Basic Questions Behind Every Content Strategy
A business or non-profit organization’s website can play a lot of different roles, but the most important job of a website – besides clearly stating the name of your organization– is often changing...
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Keeping Track of Your "COVID Bubble"
Navigating the fluctuating safety recommendations and information disseminated throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been confusing and difficult for many of us. We’re all doing our best to live these...
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How to Apply Disney Magic to Your Digital Product
I was extremely scared of characters in big costumes as a child. I was particularly scared of their faces because they strangely didn’t move. But at seven years old everything changed when my mother...
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“I’m Not a Cat”: Zooming in on Three Apprentices During a Global Pandemic
Winter 2021 Apprentices:Shannon (left) is a Project Manager Apprentice. A former marketing manager with an operations background, Shannon dabbled in web projects in her prior roles before deciding to...
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Docker: Right for Us. Right for You?
Over the last two years, we've been using Docker more and more here at Viget. We're a consulting agency so our developers are cycling on and off a wide variety of projects, often times building and...
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11 Things Designers Do for a Greener Web
One of the main things that I always think about is how to be greener in my life, but it didn't extend into my digital life until recently. There is a lot of controversy with greening our digital life...
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Docker + Rails: Solutions to Common Hurdles
This is the follow on post to an earlier post: Docker: Right for Us. Right for You?Docker has made a number of large problems go away, and replaced them with (usually) (hopefully) a smaller set of its...
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The Junior Designer Starter Pack
Starting a new job can be overwhelming, especially at the beginning of your career when imposter syndrome is high, terminology is new, and resources are flooding your way, left and right! During my...
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