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The Vox Product team's annual hackweek—known as Vax—is a self-organized affair. This year, members of the team tossed project ideas around on a Trello board weeks in advance of the event. People joined cards, left cards, made friendly and hilarious comments on cards, and generally proceeded in...

Vax '15: Generate your project name today

It's the final day of Vax '15 and we're in the middle of an amazing group of presentations which are often amusing, but always interesting. But while we get to work writing these up the rest of our Vax interviews we thought it might be cool to allow our readers to generate Vax project names of...

Vax '15: Improving Through Learning and Accomplish

Here at Vox Media, we are all about supporting our colleagues across the company. It's just one of the many reasons the product team remains such a cohesive and successful team. Two of the projects currently under development at Vax '15 highlight this very fact - Vox Story and Vox University.

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The creative freedom that Vax offers

Vax is now in full swing. Teams are in hack mode, working tirelessly to get projects into a stable state for demos tomorrow. While this is most certainly work for all taking part in the hack week, it doesn't feel like it. The location, atmosphere, schedule and team-bonding activities won't allow...

Vax '15: A faster way to discover Freelancers

Warren Schultheis, Principal Designer at Vox Media was admittedly a little tired when we first spoke this morning in the Vox Media workspace, here in Philadelphia. Having travelled to Vax '15 from Santa Barbara in California, his body clock is a little out of sync here on the east coast. That...

Vax '15: The most wonderful time of the year

It’s hard to believe that it has been a year since the Vox Media product team last converged on the beautiful city of Philadelphia for Vax, and since then a lot of awesome stuff has happened. This week we'll be reporting on the various projects that teams are working on at our annual...

Vax ’14

Vax '14 Day 3: The Empire Strikes Hack

By day 3 of Vax, the principles of "Less Yack, More Hack" had become merely a starting point for the crew who rallied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to build internet. That rallying cry was but a foundation upon which these makers were constructing an immovable digital fortress of hack. An...

Vax '14 Day 2: Less Yack, More Hack

Yack 'n' Hack

Chief Product Officer Trei Brundrett kicked off Day 1 with a talk unofficially dubbed, "Less Yack, More Hack." After updates on current, non-Vax projects and a discussion of some internal business stuff, everyone did indeed get right to hacking.

However, more than a few members of the team have...

Vax '14 Day 1: So you want to have a hack week

Trei Brundrett kicking off Vax '14 - Lauren Rabaino

Vox Product has shipped a lot of things in recent months. This time last year we were boasting about our 3 awesome verticals — now we're repping 7. We built snazzy features for holiday product coverage; supported editorial staffs at E3 and WWDC; and built beautiful apps for fans to follow the...