Delightful Reveal #26

“Sorry I brought up airhorns again.”

What we did:

• Finished analysis of last sprint’s user research, and exported short video highlights to share/discuss. Triaged usability errors and suggestions, and wireframed concepts based on findings.
• Prepared for end-to-end/summative usability testing; migrated templates/data to our prototype for use in testing.
• Added sorting to table columns with the help of ViewComponents.
• Worked on expanding designs for website page across formats.
• Made adding a primary contact a requirement when creating a location.
• Coordinating with non-Wisconsin employees to physically in-hand review of I9 documents due to COVID-19 exceptions expiring.
• Started thinking about our target audience on social media.
• Made presentation slides for selling the clients software product.
• Continued to work on the marketing homepage.
• Gave feedback on multiple internal efforts on our website and social media.
• Got on a soapbox about how design and art is undervalued and misunderstood.
• Finalized some logotypes and logomarks for a suite of client products.
• Added hyperlinks and colored cells to excel reports generated by client application.

What we’re reading:

• Mother Earth Mother Board, Neal Stephenson writing for WIRED
• Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
• Companies We Keep (Amazon) 
• Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI 

What we’re watching:

• Is It Cake Too?
• Phoenix Wright - Objection!
•  Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators
• Vesper - Official Trailer – IFC Films
• THE CARD COUNTER
• The King
• Jujutsu Kaisen (re-watch of S1)
• I Think You Should Leave, S2
• Strange New Worlds S2
• Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny. IMHO I think if we were to rank all of the movies it would go: Tied: 1/2 Ark & Crusade, 3. Dial of Destiny, 4.Temple of Doom, 5.Crystal Skull

What we’re listening to:

• Articles of Interest: Fashion without capitalism
• Madison Cunningham
• The Young Victoria
• Tiny Desk featuring some New Orleans greats: Juvenile: Tiny Desk Concert
• We Need A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION – Rainn Wilson x Rich Roll Podcast
• Come Home O’Shawn - Part 2 by (((o))) (Youtube)
• The Retrievals +1

What we’re interested in:

• Dynamicland
• Learning about the world of coding so that I can write better case studies. 
• Multi-classing paladins

What we’re struggling with:

• Finding the best music for an intro
• How to differentiate/filter the methods section of the website
• My skin and hair acting up because of the heat (summer is not my prime season) 
• the world is so hot right now

What we’re buying:

• Travel and lodging to New Jersey and Montreal
• Skinfix Eczema+ Hand Repair Cream
• Portable charger/SIM card
• A new keyboard (because the Apple keyboard is crap)
• A Japanese waffle-weave bath towel
• Hotel/attraction tickets for a weekend in Wisconsin Dells
• A lamp, and a new laptop 
• A new router

What we’re celebrating:

• A friend receiving his doctorate
• 22nd wedding anniversary!
• Swimming!
• A long-overdue haircut +1
• Seeing my friend from another state for her birthday
• Being brave enough to use the barbells at the gym, instead of the staying in my comfort zone at the Smith Machine 
• A visit to the aquarium + insectarium
• Lots of new work fresh from the kiln!
• Starting a new semester teaching + meeting excited students
• An awesome experience at FBLA Nationals
• Having woodworker friends to do lil projects
• Roommate’s first birthday
• A clean garage

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