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TimeLife.com
A leading direct marketer of music and video products, Time Life's online presence struggled to match their offline success. We set out to rebrand the online experience while rebuilding the ecommerce platform. The resulting site combines intuitive design with bold, nostalgic…
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Marketing Ecosystem
PUMA and Viget set out to revamp and unite diverse sites under not only one site, but under one brand. Thinking globally, from audiences to content, we’ve incorporated innovative visual and technical solutions that are flexible enough to grow and change along with the brand.
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Ecommerce
Always be selling. The digital space allows us to know so much about our customers—from where they are in the conversion funnel to how certain products resonate. Using this data to inform the design of ecommerce experiences is key in making sure that knowledge isn't wasted. We…
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Shure.com
A world-renowned manufacturer of iconic and legendary audio products, Shure, Inc. looked to Viget to replace their unwieldy and bloated proprietary web platform powering the Shure Americas web site. We developed a nimble, cost-effective, and extensible technology platform that…
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Gulp on Rails: Replacing the Asset Pipeline
February 18, 2015 - Just over a year ago I started using Gulp and created gulp-starter. The setup works great out of the box on projects that are unopinionated about assets. Rails, unfortunately, is very opinionated, and it's taken me a year of trial and error to land on a solution that…
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Slack on Rails
April 17, 2015 - Back in the days of Campfire, Hubot was an essential companion to the company chatroom. Hubot was great for the automation of some simple tasks, but the performance of more complex tasks involving external services often seemed more complicated than necessary. And the…
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Quick IoT Prototyping with Ruby/Rails and the Spark Core
May 18, 2015 - The Internet of Things revolution is upon us. Our phones are getting smarter, internet is becoming more accessible, even dogs have connected accessories. Making these products isn’t limited to electrical engineers or obscurely funded start-ups; with a little bit of…
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Composable SQL Queries in Rails Using Arel
June 2, 2015 - If you've spent any time working with Rails, you've been using Arel. Arel is a SQL abstraction that ActiveRecord uses to build SQL queries. Arel wraps each component of the SQL query language with Ruby objects and provides an expressive DSL for composing SQL queries. When using…
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Slimming Down Your Models and Controllers with Concerns, Service Objects, and Tableless Models
August 24, 2015 - The Single Responsibility Principle A class should have one, and only one, reason to change. - Uncle Bob The single responsibility principle asserts that every class should have exactly one responsibility. In other words, each class should be concerned about one unique…
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Proprietary vs. Open Source Content Management Systems
October 26, 2015 - The land of Content Management Systems has changed greatly over the years, from first only managing content in hard-coded HTML files, to Dreamweaver, to hundreds of full-blown systems created for the sole purpose of adding, editing, and removing content. We often help clients…
