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Hello! I’m back again to share more creatives. This installation is a bit heavier on the painterly side, a style I find to be deeply moving and inspiring. I hope you also gain some insight from these amazing creators! Riso Chan With her vibrant and expressive strokes and combination of both...
I’m drinking coffee for two now. What we did: Rethinking, reworking, re-imagining a user flow to create better UX for first time users and allowing for users to start from scratch when there is no data. Talked about the requirements for an API linking two systems we’re working...
During a recent visit to Chicago, I met up with a friend for coffee who asked me a seemingly straightforward question about my business: “Are you hiring juniors?” Despite its simplicity, I found myself hesitating with the response. Reflecting on my own career journey, I understand the immense...
“Those developers…what’re you up to?” What we did: Designed and built the splash page for RubyConf 2024 for release next week. Played with kittens. Began redesigning Training Tracker presentation slides. Upgraded to Turbo 8 and learned about some cool features it...
I was working on an import process, basically slurping in a bunch of data and shoving it into a database. Well, a little more nicely than just “shoving”. There’s massaging the data a bit from the input format, validating it, and then going through the normal creation flow (at least the...
“No apparent blockers other than the concept of time.” What we did: Work! +1 Traveled to Miami for PartsBase Expo 2024 in support of Training Tracker. Redesigned a comments pill so that people can discover it more easily based on client feedback. Got feedback from an early...
At some point everyone bumps into the age old problem of unintentional multiple form submissions usually caused by repeated pressing of submit buttons. Fortunately, if you are using Turbo you get the automatic disabling of buttons for free right out of the box. While Turbo is great at...
“That’s how software works, we go into people’s dreams at night.” What we did: Allll of the bug fixes/improvements – made a lot of progress polishing an upcoming release. Allowed users to upload Attachments for specific Trainees within Training Tracker. Allowed users to group a...
To start, what is soft deletion? It’s just adding some data to a database record (like a flag or a timestamp) to mark something as “deleted”, so it remains in the database but is no longer shown. There are a few reasons to do this, but the big one is making the record easy to restore (just remove...
The year ahead offers both opportunity and pitfalls. Augmented reality (AR) is finally set to make real gains, hype around artificial intelligence (AI) will be grounded, and with an election year promising plenty of volatility, there’s no telling how markets and directions could change. That...
“That shipping forecast is a bop.” What we did: Released a big feature for our client that allows tour coordinators to create quotes with custom occupancy packages. Added logic to confirm leave functionality that only shows the confirmation when a user has made a change to the...
Turbo has a knack for adding cool, little-but-useful features, resulting in a smoother experience for the user and developer alike. One lesser known capability within Turbo is the ability to easily customize the confirm process for a button. Although documented briefly in the Turbo Handbook, in...
Every now and then I hear someone say something that reminds me how much design and what designers do can seem like a black box to people outside our profession. How do designers know what looks good? Isn’t design just one of those things that people are innately good at—either you have a feel...
What we did: 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...
As an artist and designer, I am always looking for inspiration. One of my favorite ways to do this is by following creators whose art, skill, and passion make me want to push my own skills further. Over the years, I’ve discovered many creatives that do just that. The list ranges from ceramicists...