Delightful Reveal #15

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 positive ways.

What we did:

• Met with a partner to generate a combined staffing plan through August of this year.
• Wrapped up discovery, co-created a delivery timeline and a findings presentation.
• Ran three usability tests with users; created, reviewed and triaged a rolling issues board.
• Began drafting a plan for our next discovery effort.
• Socialized the idea of creating usability metrics.
• Held a pre-board meeting, and began to visualize a structure for how this all might fit together.
• Reviewed our responsibilities mural. 
• Went to Costco.
• Made a Training Tracker price calculator.
• Began working on fleshing out Flagrant company goals.
• Started researching current marketing design trends and building out a homepage for Numero.
• Created prototypes to determine the best choice for cards that have many states to select and change.

What we’re reading:

• The Flagrant Handbook
• The vanishing designer by Chuanqi Sun (DOC) 
• Project Management for User Research: The Plan by Susan Farrell (NNGroup)
• The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection by Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters (StoryGraph)
• Upgrade your cargo cult for the win (Meta-rationality) 

What we’re watching:

• Reginald the Vampire
• Arrival
• Bulbous Bouffant
• Ted Lasso
• Shadow and Bone
• BattleBots
• The Mandalorian
• The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling by ContraPoints
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• The new season of Barry

What we’re listening to:

• The Underwater Song In Super Mario 64
• Charlotte Cornfield - Cut and Dry (Official Video)
• Sidedoor — Don’t Call Me Extinct
• Sidedoor - The Phantom Violins
• 99 Percent Invisible - De Fiets is Niets, which covers some of the history of why the Netherlands has such good bike infrastructure
• Bermuda Triangle Live
• 99 Percent Invisible - A Whale-Oiled Machine about the necessity of lubrication and a history of whaling for blubber
• Feather River Canyon Blues - Pigeon Pit

What we’re interested in:

• Prolog By Example
• Food Disgust Test
• TIL that Hashrocket has an open-source Today I Learned catalogue

What we’re struggling with:

• What to read next (cf. celebration)
• Pollen
• Endless sub-issues
• Cross-team Google documents
• Lingering winter
• The chicken/egg problem: missing copy for a site, but driving the needs and spacing of copy for a site

What we’re buying:

• Toddler-proof dog water bowl
• Chocolate cake
• Self-adhesive power strip holder
• Matcha/Mushroom drink powder: Ryze
• A new Crash Pad!
• Salted licorice and Icelandic candy
• My first snack subscription box: Sakuraco 🌸

What we’re celebrating:

• Jonathan’s 3 year workiversary!
• Finishing the read-through of the entire Discworld series
• Getting the garden planted
• 230 days of Español activities on DuoLingo
• Community and Corn
• Making plans to lay by the pool grandma-style (with crafts and books) with a friend
• Planning Kelly’s 40th birthday vacation location and with whom (Kelly really wants to travel out of country….for the first-ish time)
• Julie Ertz is playing soccer again!

If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.