Many voices. One Flagrant.
“Ah yes, how can I get children to lick the screen while learning to read” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Got VIM working with COC (Conquer Of Completion) to help with developing on a React/Typescript front end. Wrestled with pagination and filtering within a bridgetown...
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November 6, 2024
‘Tis the season for change, which can definitely feel uncomfortable and unsettling at times. In the middle of all these ups and downs, it’s important to find ways to stay connected and centered on what really matters. Here are a few activities our team regularly practices to refocus,
November 5, 2024
In the fast-paced world of product development, it’s not always obvious when you need to bring in a Product Manager. Maybe you’re hitting your development milestones, but something still feels off. Your team is working hard, but the results aren’t matching the effort. If you’re questioning
November 4, 2024
“What else did I do? DEMOCRACY IN ACTION” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Exhibited Training Tracker at the Western Wisconsin Women’s Business Conference. Visual design experiments to establish a design language for a phonics-based reading app (and looking at a lot of kids’
October 30, 2024
Flagrant was recently tasked to help Unifocal—a client in the construction inclusion space—design flows for a product prototype to show to potential customers and get investment funding. Construction projects often have quotas, company goals, as well as local, state, and federal requirements that
October 25, 2024
Clarity Conf wrapped its 9th design systems conference at the end of September. Organized by Jina Anne (who’s been on the cutting edge of design systems work for over a decade), Clarity remains a conference with a clear (ha!) point of view that leans toward: community, inclusivity,
October 23, 2024
It’s Friday morning and the Training Tracker production error handler started squawking. Redis::CannotConnectError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 peeraddr=XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXXX state=error: certificate verify failed (self signed certificate in certificate chain) Training Tracker is
October 21, 2024
“She’s the Flagrant version of Sharper Image” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Redesigning a client’s pitch deck to make it more shiny and branded to impress Descended a massive PR of Flagrant website changes Reflected on Clarity Conf 2024—a conference on design systems.
October 10, 2024
Sweet Streams One of the gifts and challenges of working at a consultancy like Flagrant is that we sometimes find ourselves in between projects with time on our hands. This can be a good opportunity to slow down a bit and catch up on some personal projects away from the computer. For me, that
October 8, 2024
As designers at Flagrant, our main workhorse and tool of choice is Figma. We often supplement the standard features and tools in Figma by installing plugins that augment our workflow, speed up certain tasks, or help us review things like accessibility compliance and spelling before handing our
October 7, 2024
“Broken dog butt club” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: MC’d Track 2 at Rails World, sponsored by AppSignal Squashed bugs, built flyouts, allowed users to configure colors, ensured Task Type name uniqueness… A slew of stories were completed on Training Tracker Shared some
September 23, 2024
“If you didn’t want questions, why did you build a labyrinth for the mind?” - overhead at Flagrant What we did: Conducted a multi-day product design sprint with a new client in construction management around diversity, equity, and inclusion compliance Replaced a custom
September 12, 2024
Jumpstart provides a Ruby on Rails template that entrepreneurs can use to launch a product quickly. Common features like team accounts, social login, invitations, billing, payments, and multi-tenancy are built in and ready to use, saving their customers weeks of development time. Jumpstart asked
September 9, 2024
I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on the Dead Code podcast with Jared Norman, where we dove into the fascinating world of building communities and fostering growth within the Ruby ecosystem. Reflecting on my journey, which began with Ruby on Rails back in 2006, I couldn’t help but
September 9, 2024
“Sorry, there are squirrels everywhere.” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Shipped and deployed to production the improveffect.com!! Created a guidebook for how to use Decap CMS for the client so they don’t fall into CMS potholes Hacked together css overrides for the out-of-
