Academia to Tech in 5 Steps
In May of 2022, I graduated with my Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, and about two months later, I started my job as a Quantitative UX Researcher at Viget. Making a drastic change to my career path wasn’t...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Articles Read on Viget.com in 2022
We love data at Viget almost as much as we love sharing what we learn with our community in order to make the web a better place. Each of our articles aims to provide quality, creative, educational,...
View ArticleNew Year, New Career
The New Year often brings change. Many people use the new year as an opportunity to reflect on their goals and set changes in motion. Last year my goal was to try a new career, leaving behind the one...
View ArticleWhat’s on the Horizon for UI and JS?
A unified development toolkit for the web Rome Newer JS frameworks advancing modern ideas like partial hydration, islands architecture, minimizing JS sent to browsers, edge rendering, and more Fresh...
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What is Personalization and What Makes Sense for You?
One of the buzzwords we often hear about web experiences is personalization. And that’s not unwarranted. Salesforce’s annual “State of the Connected Consumer” report shows that almost 75% of customers...
View ArticleEarly-Stage Startups & Agency Partnerships — What Makes Them Work?
The early-stage startup exists in a state of contradiction. While there’s typically lots of excitement and passion around ideas and opportunities, it often goes hand-in-hand with challenges around...
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How much will my MVP cost to build?
No matter your idea, an MVP approach means focusing on the bare minimum of what you need to get in front of people to move to the next step. A common request from prospective clients is how much it...
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Virtual Retreats, Viget-Style
I've written before about The History of Viget's Quarterly Retreats, which we affectionately call TTTs because they fall (approximately) on the third Thursday of every third month. In the Before...
View ArticleHow Does Viget Start New Projects?
Picture this. It's Friday afternoon at Viget. Developers are wrapping up the week's tickets, PMs are writing tasking notes to hit inboxes on Monday morning, and everyone working from an office is...
View ArticleEvaluating Open Source Third-Party Dependencies
Modern software rarely gets built in a pristine, idyllic context wherein engineers have the luxury to construct every piece of every system by hand, character by character, line by line, program by...
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What Quarterback Kirk Cousins Can Teach Us About Brand Perception
Let’s talk about brand positioning and brand perception. Two very different –– but interconnected elements of a brand. Imagine a Venn diagram. Well, since a member of the Viget team recently taught us...
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Drawing Font Inspiration from Vintage Artifacts
In 2015, my wife, daughter, and I moved into our current house. It's a mid-century home in the Washington DC suburbs that was architected by the owner and custom-built in 1958. We bought it directly...
View ArticleMaintenance Matters: Building Helpful Logs
A lot of the time, we don't think much about our logs until we're digging around trying to sort out something that has gone wrong. They aren't user-facing or admin-facing or very visible at all until...
View Article10 SQL Tricks That I Like
At my previous job, I wrote raw SQL a lot for our massive internal database. Over time, I picked up a few little tricks that allowed me to condense my queries or improve their performance. Recently,...
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ChatGPT and Me (a Recruiter)
Like many folks in the industry, I’m both excited and wary about the potential impacts of ChatGPT and other publicly available AI tools. In the last few weeks, folks in my circle have been...
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Styling the Native File Upload Input Field
What we're making # A themed file upload input field with a unique button label and icon leveraging only HTML and CSS. Intro # As the frontend landscape has matured over the years, frontend developers...
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Streamlining Ticket Creation with GitHub Issue Forms
As a project manager, I spend a lot of time thinking about how communication and collaboration can be improved within project teams here at Viget, and lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how I...
View ArticleMaintenance Matters: Timely Upgrades
As Annie said in the series introduction article: Upgrades can only be put off until they can't. It can be hard for someone whose main concern is functionality to prioritize time for invisible changes...
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The Enduring Point of Pointless Corp
“Neither pointless, nor a corporation” is how we describe Pointless Corp. here at Viget. We founded Viget – an actual company – in 1999 during the original dot com bubble to build web products for...
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Project Managers, Pull Up a Chair to Basecamp’s New Card Table Feature
The Problem: How to create a single frame of reference for a large support project? Ongoing website maintenance. Feature enhancements. Design audits, redesigns, and revisions. Squashing bugs like a...
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