How We Designed & Built a View Transition Demo
The new View Transitions API is one of the most exciting updates for the web in years and is beginning to land in stable browsers. It introduces the ability to do smooth page transitions on the web –...
View ArticleOur Variable Wishlist to Figma
At Config 2023, Figma announced Variables, a new feature allowing designers to “store reusable values that can be applied to all kinds of design properties and prototyping actions.” Variables...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots
“Remember that time you sent everyone frozen pizzas?” “Wait, what?” One fantastic thing about working at a digital agency that was founded in 1999 is that our established values and traditions often...
View ArticleTake a PASS at Collaborative Estimations
I recently had the privilege of speaking at this year’s Digital PM Summit, a gathering of digital project managers coming together to learn and network over keynotes, lightning talks, and community...
View ArticleStrategies for Reframing Your Stakeholder’s Bad Habits
Navigating how to work with a new stakeholder is challenging. After all, they're often a stranger when you kick off the project. As your working relationship begins, your stakeholder's bad habits may...
View ArticleAn All-Hands Retreat Formula for Success
Last month, Viget hosted our 6th ever virtual all-hands event. What started as a necessity in the spring of 2020 has become a flexible way to honor our traditions and help our culture thrive. Virtual...
View ArticleCreate Rive-ting Animations
Rive lets you build interactive animation in <canvas> using a web application UI. What was intriguing to me about Rive is it allows you to build state machines like hover, click, and mouse...
View ArticleCharting New Paths to Startup Product Development
Discovery. Design. Development. The process of building a new product may seem straightforward. But over Viget’s many years of working with early-stage startups, we know that this process is anything...
View ArticleMaintenance Matters: Good Tests
This article is part of a series focusing on how developers can center and streamline software maintenance. The other articles in the Maintenance Matters series are: Continuous Integration, Code...
View ArticleGoing Headless in 2024: A View of the Headless CMS Landscape
Many of the projects that our UI Development team works on are content, marketing, and organizational websites that make use of a Content Management System (CMS), particularly Craft or WordPress....
View ArticleThoughts on Remix
Viget has a storied history of building rich web applications going way back to the Backbone/Marionette days with Dick’s Sporting Goods and beyond, into the pre-single-page-app days. Things have...
View ArticleViget's Favorite Books of 2023
Viget is full of readers and we’re excited to share some of the books we loved this year with you. These aren’t necessarily books published in 2023 — just books that we read and enjoyed this year....
View ArticleThe Reflection Before Christmas
‘Twas the Friday before Christmas, and all through the land Out of office emails were being scheduled as planned “We did it,” I thought — another year through All thanks to our incredible crew People...
View ArticleElephants, Squirrels, Porcupines, and Zombies Can Help Your Team Thrive
As part of an effort to make concrete progress on our commitment to having an inclusive company culture, we’ve embraced the concept of psychological safety and looked for ways to introduce new...
View Article10 Guiding Principles for Viget Project Managers
A project manager's primary role is often seen as maintaining organization and progress in projects, ensuring they are delivered within the scope, budget, and timeline. At Viget, the project...
View ArticleApple's Future Vision
As someone who enjoys keeping tabs on the latest tech and product releases, I am intrigued to learn more about Apple’s take on virtual reality. Or as they call it, spatial computing. While others have...
View ArticleStart Your Project With an Innovation Workshop
One of the best parts of my job is talking with prospective clients because of the incredible variety of business problems, ideas, and possibilities that come along with the conversation. Not all of...
View ArticleSWOT at Your Next Virtual All-Hands
Setting aside time for both self-reflection and shared reflection helps individuals and entire organizations align. Recently, we leveraged a SWOT analysis to do just that during a company-wide virtual...
View ArticleMaintenance Matters: Monitoring
This article is part of a series focusing on how developers can center and streamline software maintenance. The other articles in the Maintenance Matters series are: Continuous Integration, Code...
View ArticleLast Call for Craft 4
Craft 3 is great. It brought many improvements and truly modernized Craft. It introduced the Craft world to dotenv files, revamped the structure of the app, and brought along a simplified,...
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