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What we built at Verge Hack Week

Last week was Verge's second-annual Hack Week, where a few members of our product team invaded the newsroom at higher-than-average levels to collaborate on projects.

Unlike other hackathons that tend to focus on one big project by the end of the week, we shifted ours to be more aligned with the...

You Should be the Vox Media 2016 OpenNews Fellow

We're excited to be a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews host for a second year.

We first got involved with OpenNews because we believed we could help take the fellowships to the next level. We wanted to go beyond the idea of each person being involved at one news organization. We knew we needed to create...

Talk Travel Design To Me

It's easy to fear designing a travel feature, in my experience. The scenery for a travel piece usually starts with the destination itself, but is often foreign to those don't have strong knowledge of the area. For a guy from Wyoming like me, it's not always easy to call upon memories of lush...

What Does an Engineer Look Like?

Alisha Ramos

This past weekend Isis Anchalee, an engineer at OneLogin wrote a Medium post responding to the reactions of an ad campaign she was featured in. At the end of her article, she asked women engineers to tweet photos of themselves with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer to showcase the diversity in...

On solving complex problems

How we worked through the math of a cropping tool and survived Continue reading…

We design websites not mobile sites

Mobile first site design has been front and center for a few years now as the way to do responsive web design. There are a lot of great things designing mobile first has done for our design workflows, first and foremost getting us out of the mindset. Continue reading…

Seeing data in places I'd never thought to look

In early June of this year I attended Kerning Conference. The event revolved around typography, of course, and included several days of workshops followed by a day of lectures from several celebrated designers. Tobias Frere-Jones spoke about his fascinating research into the relationship between...

Managing Themed CSS

Let's take a hypothetical sports network with, say, 300+ individual team sites hosted on it. While all of these team sites have the same basic front-end, each team community applies its own custom skin of colors and graphics. Behind the scenes, this is done with one base stylesheet shared...

Opening up data projects at Vox Media

Over the past six months, Vox Media has hired multiple embedded engineers for the sole purpose of building editorial content on each vertical. We hope that you’ve noticed an increasing amount of interactive data visualization on our sites. In keeping with the data journalism manifesto penned by...