Many voices. One Flagrant.
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...
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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 👀 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
July 18, 2025
“At the end of the day: capitalism.” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Employed dialogs with the help of hotwire to manage context menus, drawers and slideouts. Designed a modal to complete a donation and payment processing Creating a new proposal layout and design for
June 12, 2025
“in the peanut butter castle, it is I” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Setup configurable open graph images, titles, and descriptions on the Training Tracking marketing pages Found a way to compare two “indicators”, each comprising three separate sets of four dimensions/values.
June 12, 2025
“if we demonstrated this in a flow diagram it would win a spaghetti award” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Paired on an algorithm to calculate certification compliance on a construction project with a complex tree of contracts and subcontracts Adapted a simple conditions field
June 11, 2025
“did you ever braid your 3 rat-tails together” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Refining a logo that the client suggested for their application Designing a way to communicate a phone or email’s validity and stats based on usage within a communication system. Got lost in
June 11, 2025
“did you ever braid your 3 rat-tails together” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Refining a logo that the client suggested for their application Designing a way to communicate a phone or email’s validity and stats based on usage within a communication system. Got lost in
May 30, 2025
“The Devil Wears Product” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Drove 1400 miles to attend conferences in Atlanta, GA and Greenville, SC MRO Americas 2025 Grok Conf Continued learning about Chart.js, specifically using bar charts and how to
March 27, 2025
“Have you done your selfie audit?” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Designed filtering, sorting, pagination, and tagging components for data tables in a client app where users manage a student roster. Implemented a bar chart using Chart.js. Created a blank state for charts when
