Once a year, the term "Vax" surfaces its head on our social media accounts and product blog. To avoid any confusion and provide clarity, the following is a brief overview (or Vaxplainer) of what exactly we're talking about. Get excited!
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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...
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...
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...
The very nature of conversation dictates that there has to be a focal point, a starting place from where the discussion springs forth. Whether that’s a discussion about last nights baseball game, or something that happened during your daily...
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,...
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...
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...
Here's the thing about a hack week: at its most basic, it's really just a decision to set an artificial deadline on making the things your team has been dreaming of for a while. A really harsh deadline, for sure, and one that isn't backed by any...
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...
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.
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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;...
We’ve been busy cranking, but wanted to share notes on the output of our Product Team hack week last month.
Vax 2.0 was a huge success. A total of 22 projects came out of the 4 days we were all in DC! On Sunday, the last day of Vax, various...
Day 3: hack hack hack! Developers, developers, developers! Scott and Brian get down to business.
Sticker time for new Polygon support manager Jon!
Constance!
The night ended with some Big Buck Hunter and Halo 3 at the office.
Oh, and...
Friday, October 4th marked the first official hack day of Vax 2.0. Huzzah! Last month people began pitching their projects in a shared Google Doc, writing a few sentences about what they hope to accomplish and what kind of resources the project...
It has been 7 months since all members of the product team descended upon Austin, Texas for our first hackathon. We are happy to report that many of the tools that were developed during our first Vax is still in use — like Beacon, Binder and...
VAX ‘13 wrapped up two weeks ago on a sunny Friday afternoon in Austin, Texas, and our product team presented their proof-of-concept work in front of the entire company.
In a Google Hangout, editorial and sales staff from across the country...
Our first ever VAX wrapped up today, and we will recap it early next week (with video!), but for now you should check out some recent photos on our team’s flickr!
Well, that’s enough for today. Off to eat some more brisket on our final night in...
The crew worked late into the night Wednesday, eager to push themselves as far as they could go in search of VAX greatness. Lone Star Beer once again poured freely for the developers and designers of the Vox Media product team.
As Thursday...
The Vox Media product team is always coming up with ideas for smaller projects that do not necessarily fit into our regular sprints. Our backlog for these projects has been growing steadily, and a couple of enterprising team members decided it was...
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