Delightful Reveal #43

A weekly update on all things Flagrant

“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 identified the work that remains before we can achieve our goal of the full adoption of our product by our first customer.
Deployed a major feature for GroupCollect Quotes allowing users to create a quote from a template. Relatedly, prepared for and held three usability tests to assess quote templating, and then debriefed
Continued planning for a remote friendly, multi-product team design studio.
Met with a product manager to scope a small research effort to inform a design iteration.
Created/reviewed a hypothesis-driven design Mural, and sketched possible solutions to inform acceptance criteria.
Made maple bacon cookies.
Introduced ourselves to someone who might participate in future user research efforts.
Reviewed a wireflow for rate maintenance with product owner and our earliest adopter.
Continued working on visual design for a new user group and redesigned the CSV upload experience.
Planned and held a workshop to review themes from our curator research and make sure upcoming work aligns with priorities.
Respectful Workplace training.
Worked on creating animations for the Madison+ Ruby website.
Worked on Flagrant sticker updates.
Created some possible Flagrant mascot options.
Worked on Training Tracker question card updates.
Used a Commentable module class variable to keep track of included commentable classes.
Participated in a CAT-Hiring meeting.
Allowed users to customize the number of records shown within a table view.
Transitioned Training Tracker upgrade branch to use ActiveStorage for file upload/storage .
Drafted 2024 company budget and submitted for review.
Made adjustments to Flagrant Coffee label + talked about bag and printing options.
Drafted a design and prototype for a text messaging wizard.

What we’re struggling with:

Making bugs dance.
Congestion.
Time. How is it December already?!
Finding time to be creative outside of work.

What we’re buying:

Holiday gifts from local shops and art markets.
Tickets to the Milwaukee Admirals game this saturday (semi-pro hockey team).
A winter jacket.
Fancy camping stuff from Snowpeak.
New tennis shoes and rubber boots.
A new dustpan and broom set.
Tales: Life story interview kit.

What we’re celebrating:

Mini Climbing trip to Utah. Getting humbled in the Hurricave.
Attending the International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folks and Fairy Tales tomorrow.
Brother in law is home after being deployed in Kuwait for the last year.
Started creating my parents new website.
Kelly helped me out and turned a gif into a slack emoji.
JB’s mom’s 77th birthday.
Feedback from client “I just want to say that your team blew me away today. The presentation was extremely impressive. I am thrilled that you were able to bring together these conversations. Well done and THANKS!!!!!”
Meet Hopalong Cassidy!