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Yossef and I recently attended the Code for America Summit 2023! I first learned about the summit while chatting with Andrew on the topic of Civic Tech and wanted to learn about opportunities for Flagrant to become more involved. Jim looped in Yossef as the conference was within...
“I feel like some sort of seasonal gourd…” - overheard this week at Flagrant. What we did: Got the nod from a client to help with their branding across six different properties/applications Connected with a high school intern about potential summer work opportunities....
As a part of our Thursday morning routine we have a scheduled meeting Team Activity: Self Care Activity & Appreciations. Initially this started off with Joyce leading Breath & Movement exercises with the occasional guest host. It’s a lot of responsibility to show up and lead your team...
“Cult of personality iguanas.” What we did: Returned from Japan, posted lots of pictures in Slack, made tea. Caught up on design research + project documentation from my absence. Got word from a client that they want our help changing typography and color palettes across all...
“Can’t have bugs if you don’t know what the intended behavior is.” What we did: Planned out another two-week cycle’s worth of work for a client. Interviewed 3 users of our system to research future functionality and get feedback on software we’ve delivered. Attended Code for...
“My brain is full of vintage Fruit by the Foot advertisements.” What we did: Met with our client’s CMO to coordinate changes to the client’s brand with the visual design needs of two new applications we’re developing. Held a demo to review high level user flows with clients to align...
It is important to have respect for others’ time and in order to ensure that others respect your time, you must first do the same for yourself. What do I mean by “respecting your time”? I mean that you view your time and energy as invaluable and there is purpose in the things that you do with...
“Arborist only differs from ‘arsonist’ by two letters” What we did: Coordinated between teams to understand our common visual design dependencies on some upcoming client branding decisions. Brainstormed about how to educate our clients about the best practices of user story writing...
If you took your favorite programming language and then started pulling things out of it, where could you stop? Could you remove variables? Operator precedence? Braces, brackets, parentheses? Function arguments and return values? First off, this seems like a weird thing to think of, even...
Our Flagrant vision is to see our clients and communities be successful as defined by them and to do what we can to make it happen. What we did: Held a findings presentation to summarize our seven-week research and discovery effort. Two discoveries diverged in a wood, and I took the...
Our mission is to bring people together and provide value to our clients and communities. We embrace & invest in communities that share our values, and use technology to improve the lives of those around us. We seek out partners who are similarly inspired to impact the world in...
In Atlanta? Let’s get together We (Jack & Jim) are going to be in town for RailsConf 2023 and are looking to explore a bit of Atlanta. We’re planning to meet up with folks inside Ponce City Market near BOTI WALLA Indian Street Food Tuesday (4/25) at 6PM. Open invite, if you can see...
“I think Glynnis just dragged a bodybag into the room.” What we did: Bought tickets to the Studio Ghibli museum Created a how-to for identifying the ethics of potential clients Interviewed and analyzed findings for user research; created personas to inform our problem statement...
Reminder that while you stare into ChatGPT, ChatGPT is also staring into you (i.e. collecting all the data you send to it). What we did: Kicked off another sprint/cycle with clients, prioritizing our roadmap and defining acceptance criteria Worked with a development partner to get a...
In Everybody is a Drawer I discussed how storytelling relies on framing to help define successes and discover capabilities. If I ask most people to picture someone with a disability, there’s likely an image with someone in a wheelchair. It’s the consensus sign (literally) that someone has lost an...