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Bounce Back: Become A More Resilient Designer
January 30, 2013 - February is almost here, which means I've had a month to reflect on the past year’s successes and failures. My days slide by quickly, so I try to slow down at least once a year to focus on the big picture. It’s encouraging to see all that I did accomplish (yay…
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How to Sell in an Open-Source Economy
March 4, 2013 - One of the reasons why I love our industry is because everything is shared. Code, designs, projects, tips and tricks -- there are no secrets, it seems -- except when it comes to sales. Joe Rinaldi from Happy Cog wrote a great blog post on how sales is about the only topic in…
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Product, Agency, or In-house Team? What To Look for in Your First UX Job
August 22, 2013 - A couple weeks ago, Laura wrote a great post on starting her UX career at an agency. Having started my UX career at a product company, this sparked a conversation between the two of us about product vs. agency life and what qualities are most important in your first UX job.…
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How Chess Makes Me A Better Designer
October 17, 2013 - Our industry hinges on great ideas. And, while the design community is great at talking about technique, I don’t often find advice on critical thinking and problem solving skills—the very skills that, I find, help lead to great ideas. It’s possible that…
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150 Digital Project Managers Walk Into A Room…
November 25, 2013 - No, it’s not the start of an amazingly funny joke (though I’m sure many of you could come up with a pretty good punchline). It’s actually how the inaugural Digital Project Manager Summit began. Photo by Jeffrey Zeldman. View all Digital Project Summit 2013…
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Ethics and Honor in the Workplace
February 7, 2014 - If you’re a regular reader of the Viget blogs, then you already have a sense for the close-knit, family atmosphere we’ve fostered here at Viget. Not coincidentally, I believe, we have high retention rates and continue to maintain strong relationships with…
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Boulder Project Manager Meetup Wrap-Up: A Mountain of Challenges
March 20, 2014 - Take a moment and imagine the following scenario: a prospective client comes in and says they want to build a mobile application that will need to use technology that doesn’t yet exist. Also, the app needs to launch in less than three months. Now imagine you say…
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Boulder Project Manager Meetup Wrap-Up: Apps For The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
May 13, 2014 - If you’ve been a Digital Project Manager (DPM) for longer than — say — a minute, you’ve probably been on a project with crazy expectations and crazier deadlines. Even though we’ve all been there, it’s always interesting and educational to…
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Making the Most of Your Internship
August 15, 2014 - As the 2014 summer internship program at Viget winds down, and we get close to saying our sad goodbyes, I’ve been focusing on how the past 10 weeks have gone. I am so grateful for how much I’ve learned and been able to do here. For some of my classmates, a…
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Staying Agile in an Agency Setting—A BDPM Meetup Wrap-up
August 26, 2014 - Agile. It can be a loaded word, and despite having a written manifesto, a word with many interpretations. As a “Certified Scrum Master” I do feel relatively up to speed on what’s intended when someone wants to work in an agile fashion, but I’m not an…