Many voices. One Flagrant.

How We Built a Color System from the Ground Up

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...

Delightful Reveal #61

“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-...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
September 09, 2024

Delightful Reveal #60

“The number of ducks I want to see is MAX_INT” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Presented at DevFest WI, part of Wisconsin’s largest tech and entrepreneurship event: The Forward Festival about “Nothing New Under the Sun,” exploring the recurring cycles of human behavior and...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
September 03, 2024

Delightful Reveal #59

“Thinking out loud but silently” - overheard at Flagrant. What we did: Hosted Madison+ Ruby! Thank you to those that joined us ❤️ We hope you got to create new connections, explore different perspectives, and experience a bit of Madison while you were here. Achieved a significant...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
August 13, 2024

Delightful Reveal #58

“A matchbook is technically a book, no take backs!” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Designed a fabulous sign up flow for an AI product for developers.  Prepared multiple print assets for Madison+ Ruby and talked to a bunch of printers about materials and deadlines Met...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
July 15, 2024

Delightful Reveal #57

“Expel shredsheet” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: “Valenzia I’m crying this is so incredible”. ✅ Achievement Unlocked: brought client to tears Recorded an episode for the #RemoteRuby Podcast Dug deeply into the internals of searchkick to emerge with a custom solution for...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
July 01, 2024

Delightful Reveal #56

“In the event of an emergency, I can crochet.” What we did: Quick Wins are live on our website! Listened to an interview with a satisfied client to pick out some choice testimonial quotes Started drafting a strategy-focused case study for our work with GroupCollect...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
June 17, 2024

Madison+ Ruby Returns August 1st to 2nd

Forget the beach. To heck with camping. Set aside August 1-2 for some hot summer fun in…Madison, Wisconsin! That’s right, because after a five-year hiatus, the Madison+ Ruby conference is returning, and so will a tribe of Ruby programming language enthusiasts and experts from across the country...

Joyce Hu
By Joyce Hu
June 06, 2024