Many voices. One Flagrant.
When I first started as a developer, I vaguely understood what a designer actually did. Now, I can’t imagine building without them. That shift didn’t happen overnight and I don’t think I’m alone in that journey. I think there is a large number of people who still undervalue and diminish the...
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August 21, 2025
This is not an intuitive thing to understand unless you’re already deep into TailwindCSS. Or, if you are me. So, if you somehow stumbled onto this post while trying to figure things out — welcome to the confusion. I hope I can help make it a little clearer. What I Was Trying to Do I needed
August 15, 2025
Good communication is an essential element to every successful relationship. Whether in our families, friendships or communities how clearly we express ourselves can often make the difference between building connection or aggravating conflicts. Having lived in intentional communities of one
August 15, 2025
In the first part of this blog series we discussed how important communication and dialogue is in work, life and websites. In this second part we will explore how the dialog element can be used in other creative ways and find parallels to how to communicate more effectively using tools like
August 15, 2025
In part 2 of our series we found a more reflective way of dialoguing with an agitated client while also exploring some of the flexibility in the dialog html element to match the user experience needed in a website. Let’s tackle some more challenging communication. At a meeting a co-worker
August 13, 2025
“I have three therapists and I’m working through it …” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Designing variations of mobile screens for a mobile driver license application Skill-sharing and learning about other client projects—cross-pollination on the design side
August 7, 2025
“cold water, or stormy beans” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Implemented an event page and event index for upcoming XO Ruby events. Dropped some new portfolio work on the Flagrant website Attended RailsConf 2025 Dove deeper into tailwind building process and learned
August 7, 2025
“figma the conflict is inside YOU this isn’t our problem” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Deferred long running reporting/exporting jobs to background workers that update their progress, and automatically download upon completion. Made many attempts to design marketing
August 6, 2025
As some of you might know, Flagrant partnered with Ruby Central to provide design support for the recent RubyConf in Chicago by creating the website, signage, and (my favorite), the t-shirt design! While at the conference, I got lots of people asking about the t-shirt and wanting to know more
August 6, 2025
Your product isn’t the destination, it’s the airport Navigation design for websites and digital products typically follow common, well-known UI patterns. Product teams adopt and adhere to these common patterns. These patterns help users orient quickly, contributing to a sense of ease and
July 31, 2025
At the final RailsConf in Philadelphia, Flagrant wanted to provide attendees with a fun and unique selfie wall where they could capture their conference memories! The goal of the design was to give a nod to the Rails community and some of the tools that developers use in tandem with Ruby and
July 18, 2025
“At the end of the day: capitalism.” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Employed dialogs with the help of hotwire to manage context menus, drawers and slideouts. Designed a modal to complete a donation and payment processing Creating a new proposal layout and design for
June 18, 2025
At the 2024 RailsConf in Detroit, it was announced that RailsConf 2025 would be the final RailsConf put on by Ruby Central. While we are sad to see this conference end, we also look forward to all that Ruby Central has in store for its future as they pivot their full focus to RubyConf—their
June 12, 2025
“if we demonstrated this in a flow diagram it would win a spaghetti award” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Paired on an algorithm to calculate certification compliance on a construction project with a complex tree of contracts and subcontracts Adapted a simple conditions field
June 12, 2025
“in the peanut butter castle, it is I” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Setup configurable open graph images, titles, and descriptions on the Training Tracking marketing pages Found a way to compare two “indicators”, each comprising three separate sets of four dimensions/values.
