Many voices. One Flagrant.
This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of Rose, Thorn, Bud. It’s a great activity in reflecting and learning about our teammates and the full, rich lives we each lead. Everybody shared at least one Rose,...
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March 20, 2026
Flagrant has been experimenting with spending our internal time / non-client facing time in building meaningful things. Everything from our new Shop page to our Bookshop are artifacts of the team coming together to create our own work. We want to continue creating but when the team is faced with
March 19, 2026
Though I’m not currently disabled, I spent several years of my childhood chronically ill without a diagnosis (followed by emergency surgery and a full recovery). I’ve suffered shoulder injuries that kept me away from my pottery studio and prevented me from lifting grocery bags. Once, I twisted an
February 19, 2026
Delightfully Friday Junior comes for us all, and this time it was my turn. (What’s Delightfully Friday Junior? Check this out.) I thought what we’d do was set up some tier lists for rating things. Rating what? Whatever we wanted! That’s part of the fun of just putting a little bit of structure
December 29, 2025
For our final Delightfully Friday Junior (if you haven’t heard of it yet, learn more here) of the year, the team gathered to make gingerbread houses and other digitally baked scenes. As we weren’t limited to the social integrity of the usual marshmallows and graham crackers, we closed out 2025
November 19, 2025
For our 4th Delightfully Friday Junior activity (see more about Delightfully Friday Junior here!) the team embarked on a virtual scavenger hunt. The goal was to use photos from our camera rolls to answer prompts and then share a bit about the photos we share. This activity was designed to get us
November 7, 2025
Delightfully Friday Junior III We have offically done three rounds of Delightfully Friday Junior. Where does the time go? If this sounds new to you, here is our first take - show and tell), and our second take - this or that. Take a gander at these to get the who, what, why, where an when
October 22, 2025
What’s Delightfully Friday Junior, you ask? This is only our second go-round (see our first take—show and tell—here), so you’re forgiven for not knowing. At Flagrant we have different themes to our daily stand-ups, each one focusing on a different vibe, prompt, or mini team-building moment
October 10, 2025
What’s Delightfully Friday Junior, you ask? It’s our new, every-other-Thursday event here at Flagrant—a little experimental, a little silly, and surprisingly educational. Think: doing something fun and lighthearted, only to realize later… oh wait, I actually learned something. We Call That:
September 24, 2025
What we did: Deleting huge amounts of code that was contributing to tech debt Finalized colors for the Rocky Mountain Ruby t-shirt! Started work with Ruby Central and am getting accustomed to their setup/mapping out the requests :D Set up another XO Ruby design book club. We’ll
September 8, 2025
What we did: Started setting up a new design book club for XO Ruby, stay tuned đź‘€ Designed a special Training Tracker sticker to give out to volunteers Designed a graphic for DataTune to announce their site launch and a call for speakers Began researching a way to create an
August 29, 2025
…but I need you to be brave today and do your best to reject that gravitational pull, the undeniable allure of E2E tests, and do other things What we did: Updating designs on a contact page to incorporate methods to contact the user via phone or email when using Call Time, a
August 13, 2025
“I have three therapists and I’m working through it …” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Designing variations of mobile screens for a mobile driver license application Skill-sharing and learning about other client projects—cross-pollination on the design side
August 7, 2025
“cold water, or stormy beans” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Implemented an event page and event index for upcoming XO Ruby events. Dropped some new portfolio work on the Flagrant website Attended RailsConf 2025 Dove deeper into tailwind building process and learned
August 7, 2025
“figma the conflict is inside YOU this isn’t our problem” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Deferred long running reporting/exporting jobs to background workers that update their progress, and automatically download upon completion. Made many attempts to design marketing
