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Tips For Implementing Device Assets
February 7, 2014 - Back in November, Blair wrote a great post about designing device assets. In her post, she details the ins and outs of creating favicons, touch icons, and Windows 8 Tiles. If you’ve read her post (or worked with device assets before), you know that the sheer number of…
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Frosted Glass Effect with Blur Filters and Masks
February 24, 2014 - Combining a blur effect and a mask to achieve a frosted glass effect is fairly straightforward in Photoshop. However, achieving this frosted glass effect on the front-end using using a single image file is a slightly different story. To produce this effect, we could use a CSS…
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Dissecting a Design: Viget SpotsYou
March 20, 2014 - We recently built SpotsYou, a tool those of us at Viget can use to get rewarded for hitting the gym. Go read Kevin’s breakdown of what it is and why it exists. Okay, back? Cool. Even though Viget SpotsYou was created as an internal app, we were really…
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Skewed Hit Boxes with CSS Transforms
March 25, 2014 - One of the neatest things about CSS Transforms is that they change the hit area of an element to whatever transformed value we set. So, if we rotate an element, the hit area for that element doesn’t stay a box in the defined X and Y plane; it changes to…
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Teaching Kids Programming with Khan Academy
April 7, 2014 - Like many other programmers with children I'm interested in passing my skills on to them. If you've ever had the opportunity to work with me, this may or may not be a horrifying proposition — I'll let you be the judge. My two oldest (9 and 7) are now at a good…
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Presenting Design with Empathy
April 18, 2014 - This past winter brought more snow than usual to North Carolina. As I was working from home one day, I watched my neighbor shoveling his driveway. I noticed that the shovel that he was using looked like it was making the job a lot harder. I was sure I could design a better…
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Eight Years of Blogging: 1,600 Posts and Counting
May 1, 2014 - Eight years ago today I wrote Viget's first official blog post titled "20 Brains, Six Years, Four Labs, and One Post (to start)." I promised that we would share "our experiences, insights, and expertise" and that "at times we may be arrogant, boring, or flat-out wrong;…
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How to Implement an Enumerated Type in Rails
May 21, 2014 - Have you ever wanted to use an enumerated type in your Rails app? After years of feature requests, Rails 4.1 finally added them: a simple implementation that maps strings to integers. But what if you need something different?On a recent project, I implemented a survey,…
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Sharing Data Between Sass and JavaScript with JSON
June 10, 2014 - Traditionally stylesheets describe the majority of the presentation layer for a website. However as JavaScript becomes necessary to present information in a stylistically consistent way, it becomes troublesome to keep these mediums in sync. Data visualizations and break-point…
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Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons? A Research Study
June 16, 2014 - Data from over 1,000 test participants paint a nuanced picture about the effect of icon style on usability.
