Many voices. One Flagrant.

Joyce Jia Hu

Delightful Reveal #42

“Great minds don’t bamboozle alike” What we did: (Soft-)Launched Madison Ruby 2024 website Attended RubyConf 2023 in San Diego! Guided Jarrod through his first conference and helped him craft a Lightning Talk which he presented Met and talked with a lot of talented early...

Delightful Reveal #38

October 2, 2023

“You can’t scare me, I’m into math.” What we did: Signed an agreement to work with Metis Communications to help get the word out about about our people Represented at Friendly.rb, Your Friendly European Ruby Conference, in Romania Delivered a proposal to a nearly 50 year-old

Delightful Reveal #37

September 25, 2023

“My mind palace is too full of penguins to hold any user data.” What we did: Saw co-workers in person! Generated a Driver’s Citation Report to assist companies in keeping track of Driver Performance.  Added a User Action audit log to a client app Sketched ideas for a

Delightful Reveal #36

September 18, 2023

“I think we’re caught in an infinite honk loop.” What we did: Held a multi-product-team workshop focused on concept modeling, as well as a follow-up meeting. Identified shared questions and next steps. Held a research-alignment workshop to agree on the user needs we need to address

Flagrant at Code For America Summit 2023

June 6, 2023

Yossef and I recently attended the Code for America Summit 2023!  I first learned about the summit while chatting with Andrew on the topic of Civic Tech and wanted to learn about opportunities for Flagrant to become more involved. Jim looped in Yossef as the conference was within

Delightful Reveal #21

June 5, 2023

“I feel like some sort of seasonal gourd…” - overheard this week at Flagrant. What we did: Got the nod from a client to help with their branding across six different properties/applications Connected with a high school intern about potential summer work opportunities.

Delightful Reveal #16

May 1, 2023

Our Flagrant vision is to see our clients and communities be successful as defined by them and to do what we can to make it happen. What we did: Held a findings presentation to summarize our seven-week research and discovery effort. Two discoveries diverged in a wood, and I took the

Delightful Reveal #15

April 24, 2023

Our mission is to bring people together and provide value to our clients and communities. We embrace & invest in communities that share our values, and use technology to improve the lives of those around us.  We seek out partners who are similarly inspired to impact the world in

Delightful Reveal #14

April 17, 2023

“I think Glynnis just dragged a bodybag into the room.” What we did: Bought tickets to the Studio Ghibli museum Created a how-to for identifying the ethics of potential clients Interviewed and analyzed findings for user research; created personas to inform our problem statement

Delightful Reveal #10

March 20, 2023

Max: “The Gravitron I LOVE, I could just fall asleep in it.” Yossef: “It’s like the biggest weighted blanket.” Interested in attending Flagrant’s Dev Roundtable or our Design Community? Drop us a note via Contact! What we did: Continued loving ViewComponents and adding responsive

Delightful Reveal #8

March 6, 2023

Suggestion for today’s self care activity: model your stretches based on your pet’s current movements. What we did: Planned and held concept tests with two users. Held a mini-retro during which we updated our “handoff” process between research and design. Created a discovery plan

Delightful Reveal 7

February 24, 2023

me: why isn’t the logger working? g: it’s nighttime. me: what? g: it’s a logger. me: …what? g: it’s a logger. a lumberjack. me: … g: it sleeps all night and it works all day. me: OH MY GOD. Monty Python - Lumberjack Song What we did: Met with John Samuelson

Delightful Reveal #6

February 20, 2023

To the customer that said “Thank you for caring and making it good”, you’re welcome! What we did: Held a management summit. Discussing team expectations so that we can grow our skill sets and clarity on what we all do everyday. Booked tickets/airfare out to