Many voices. One Flagrant.
Community Action Teams (CATs) At a small consultancy, sometimes it’s challenging to prioritize internal tasks amid the daily hum of activity for our clients’ projects. We’ve written in the past about experiments, and we also have internal projects, but we realized neither of those are a great...
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April 23, 2024
“Thanks for getting your brain juice on my code.” What we did: Designed multiple lists feature for Curators Won a proposal to help a client improve their product management chops Hosted a user research watching party to revisit prior sessions in light of new research questions.
April 8, 2024
I’m drinking coffee for two now. What we did: Rethinking, reworking, re-imagining a user flow to create better UX for first time users and allowing for users to start from scratch when there is no data. Talked about the requirements for an API linking two systems we’re working
March 25, 2024
“Those developers…what’re you up to?” What we did: Designed and built the splash page for RubyConf 2024 for release next week. Played with kittens. Began redesigning Training Tracker presentation slides. Upgraded to Turbo 8 and learned about some cool features it
March 11, 2024
“No apparent blockers other than the concept of time.” What we did: Work! +1 Traveled to Miami for PartsBase Expo 2024 in support of Training Tracker. Redesigned a comments pill so that people can discover it more easily based on client feedback. Got feedback from an early
February 26, 2024
“That’s how software works, we go into people’s dreams at night.” What we did: Allll of the bug fixes/improvements – made a lot of progress polishing an upcoming release. Allowed users to upload Attachments for specific Trainees within Training Tracker. Allowed users to group a
January 30, 2024
“That shipping forecast is a bop.” What we did: Released a big feature for our client that allows tour coordinators to create quotes with custom occupancy packages. Added logic to confirm leave functionality that only shows the confirmation when a user has made a change to the
January 16, 2024
What we did: Finalized a role description for UX researcher / design strategist. Wrapped up some discovery research: Summarized research to date (not quite a report). Prioritized problems to solve by the level-of-effort we estimated it’d take to solve them. Began sketching and writing
December 18, 2023
“I don’t know why I have the ‘yeehaws’ this morning and I’m sorry dude.” What we did: Finished a blog post on styling disabled buttons with Hotwire Learned about using nip.io to allow me to use my mobile device while testing on my local environment Wrestling with inline
December 4, 2023
“Here’s the problem with humans…” What we did: Had a 1x1 with a client to check in on progress and talk about resourcing in the new year. Used Ahoy gem to keep track of user events and created tables and graphs to meaningfully showcase those events. Held a planning meeting and
November 6, 2023
“You know how sometimes you get your bones vibrated?” What we did: Untangled a mess of spaghetti code that handled everything involving the “scope” of a “collection” in a client app (i.e. the search, filtering, pagination, and sorting of a list). Described (and visualized) how users
October 23, 2023
“It’s like /dev/null, but for people.” What we did: Released a new episode of Dev Roundtable on our Youtube! Checked in with our earliest adopter Translated our collaborative sketching from our on-site into slightly-higher fidelity versions Began to wind down the most
October 9, 2023
“What have I told you about listening to inanimate objects?!” What we did: Started to socialize a presentation for a team-wide management retro. Held a two-day on-site with a client in Madison, WI. Prioritized ambitious user stories (epics) for on-site discussion. Reviewed
September 11, 2023
“I’m just going to put my computer in a ring of salt so the AI can’t get it.” What we did: Replaced a third party input mask with a custom currency input component wrapped with dollar-sign icons. Connected with our product stakeholder to learn more about their administrative
September 5, 2023
“It’s very casual and very close to the ground.” What we did: Worked with our client to get a data export to feed the latest information into our new system Got a new production environment set up to host an application we’ve been developing Prepared and delivered a
