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One of the most enjoyable aspects of user experience design is the opportunity to observe human behavior and interactions directly within the user’s environment. I like to picture user experience designers on reconnaissance missions, quietly gathering user behavior intel while covertly …
Recently, I took on the task of updating our Viget Facebook account to the new Timeline layout. Now, I don’t just mean clicking the “Get Timeline Now” button, but actually using it to its fullest potential by updating it with various facts, photos, and videos from our …
A challenge that has always plagued the web industry is understanding users. Whether it’s their habits, assumptions, interests, tendencies, or expectations, it all affects how any user will interact with and respond to a website. Since no group of users or customers is the same, it takes …
When bringing a large group together for a meeting, such as an initial kick-off, it's crucial to make the most of that time. In order to accomplish that, it helps to be prepared for anything. Carrying a playbook in our back pocket allows us to be flexible with our meeting game plan. While …
Let’s start this off by saying we’re pretty big fans of Twitter Bootstrap . We’ve had opportunities to use Twitter Bootstrap casually over the past year, mostly to fill in the gaps of assets that might otherwise get overlooked during the design phase. It served more as a …
Every good game plan needs a playbook. Not something that choreographs every move play-by-play. Rather, something that serves as a guide or reference for plays you might use during a game. While you may go into a game with your no-huddle offense, at some point you're going to have to adapt to …
Recently I was troubleshooting why ?fb_xd_fragment= was getting appended to the end of a bunch of URLs in Google Analytics. With a little bit of googling, the source of the problem wasn’t tough to find--it happens when a visitor using Internet Explorer clicks a Facebook ‘Like’ …
When I was a kid, I never thought to myself, "Man, when I grow up, I want to be a UX designer … " I'm not sure that the title even existed then. Yet, here I am, many years later, working as one at Viget. The different paths people take before they eventually determine this is the …
In April of this year, Google began updating their search algorithms with something called "Panda." These effects have been more fully integrated throughout the year. In the world of SEO, this update represents a greater movement towards human accessibility and usability and away from machine …
I'm in awe of my Viget colleagues, as I am of extraordinarily creative people generally. But I'm especially in awe of my user experience colleagues, and it took me a while to figure out why. I blame the user experience community for this -- I think UX sells itself short. Before I came to …
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