Delightful Reveal #39

“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 and shortlisted prior user research to use during our on-site.
• Collaboratively mapped, sketched, and storyboarded two user interfaces.
• Began to increase the fidelity of our on-site sketches using Balsamiq Mockups.
• Prepared for another product strategy workshop to discuss design fiction.
• Discussed remaining open questions and planned for research with a new user group.
• Began defining user stories and user flows for a new user group.
• Concepting and Wireframing the Madison+ Ruby website.
• Put together Flagrant Post Card and Sticker packets for the team.
• Kicked off an engagement with Metis Communications.
• Scheduled annual Respectful Workplace Training for November.
• Added pagination to all list results across a client app.
• Designing pricing sheets for the addition of a new feature in a client’s CRM.
• Discussed another run of our TQLGB+ stickers, pins, and bandanas for sale.
• Attended Rocky Mountain Ruby.

What we’re reading:

• Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning by Andy Baio
• Subscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon by Ben Werdmuller
• Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I by Alexander Watson
• One King’s Way, by Harry Harrison

What we’re watching:

• Our Flag Means Death S2
• Pluralistic: Google’s enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023) 
• Sex Education S4
• Call the Midwife
• Rewatching Ted Lasso
• Be Kind Rewind
• BattleBots Champions II 

What we’re listening to:

• Divide by ODESZA (feat. Kelsey Bulkin) 
• Mapache - People Please (Official Video) 
• Decoder Ring: A Brief History of Making Out
• Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
• Hardcore History 69 – Twilight of the Æsir

What we’re interested in:

• SM Entertainment’s metaverse company ‘Studio KWANGYA” (HelloKPop).
• What is Michel Gondry doing these days?
• Relearning front-end development via Tailwind, Hotwire, and Bridgetown.

What we’re struggling with:

• Charlists in Elixir (and how they’re the standard way of showing lists of integers in a certain range).
• Google Docs not turning highlighted text into a link when you paste a URL
• Recalcitrant home sellers.
• Health.
• Recovering from jet lag.
• Migrating a database on fly.io owned by a user to one owned by an organization.
• Not making standby on a full flight; waiting at the airport for 8 hours until next flight. 

What we’re buying:

• More Flagrant Stickers
• More Training Tracker Stickers
• Training Tracker t-shirts
• A splitting ax
• Rug pads to prevent old dogs from slipping on rugs

What we’re celebrating:

• Chris & Max’s 1 year workiversaries! 🥳
• Throwing a few more pots on my second day at pottery 101 class. First night I only made 1 to keep.
• A good friend getting into a Graffiti and Street Art Exhibition

Going to the Renaissance Festival this weekend

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