Delightful Reveal #45

A weekly update on all things Flagrant

Finalized a role description for UX researcher / design strategist.
Wrapped up some discovery research: Summarized research to date (not quite a report). Prioritized problems to solve by the level-of-effort we estimated it’d take to solve them. Began sketching and writing acceptance criteria.
Finalized research questions, drafted discussion guide, and scheduled participants for a concept test. Led one test and decided to rework and finesse our prototype a bit (especially the microcopy).
Consolidated research documentation/outputs over several cycles — especially our model of how people get things done in this domain — to clear the way for further hypothesis-driven development.
Utilized the lighthouse developer tool and learned about CSP.
Tricked a synchronously loaded turbo frame to reload async by giving it a src attribute.
Demoed our dev progress for Curators + mocks of our upcoming releases.
Finalized consumer login.
Got to connect with our client’s client a.k.a. Grandclients.
Converted an import system from only running at the command line to something that can be run within the app in a background job, and with recorded results to view later.
Created playing card box designs.
Worked on playing card face designs.
Created Madison+ Ruby social media assets and activities.
Interviewed candidates for Senior Product Designer position.
Building out a figma prototype for testing and teaching how figma works to a teammate. Building out some empathy for the win.

Snow +2
General winter lethargy
Sick Pets
A bad back
Potential new-home inspection results
Kitten energy
Jet lag
Schrödinger’s health insurance (one place says I’m covered, another says I’m not)
Covid + resulting test in the middle of an interview
Smashing face into chair back and splitting open forehead

Finally replacing a 10-year-old bath mat
Upgrading to a more powerful stand mixer to better handle bread dough
A replacement bathroom sink faucet
A heart rate monitor
Garden seeds
More N95s! 1 in 3 people in the US have COVID right now :C (jerks like me with our posi tests and not vibes)

Supporting our friends at RailsConf with website designs and build-out.
1900s art movements in Vienna.
The Columbo statue in Budapest.
Plans to see friends marching in the first parade I’m attending this carnival season. Happy Carnival!
Museums, just generally. How cool are they??
New notebooks and journals—so fresh, so full of possibility.
Being home with my cats.
Snow.
New cat adoption!
King cake season is here.
Gavin’s 19th birthday. (last teenage year, phew!)
Plex Meta Manager setup.
So many snow days this week for the kids to experience.
Meeting so many wonderful people in the interview phase of hiring. New connections and people.
Started a “one positive thing that happened to you” at home.
A client printed sweatshirts with my design for a customer and I just got one!