Many voices. One Flagrant.
âSorry, my left key doesnât work because my cat has stepped on it too much.â What we did: Thought deeply and consulted broadly about reorganizing all layers of our components on a project Welcomed our first three beta testers in the system, reviewed recording of our manually...
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May 6, 2024
âSorry, my left key doesnât work because my cat has stepped on it too much.â What we did: Thought deeply and consulted broadly about reorganizing all layers of our components on a project Welcomed our first three beta testers in the system, reviewed recording of our manually
May 1, 2024
RailsConf 2024 is set for May 7 â 9. Itâs the worldâs longest-running conference for Ruby on Rails developers. Attendees will find presentations for all skill levels â new users to seasoned professionals â with everyone discussing, collaborating and learning about building, deploying, testing and
April 24, 2024
From 2011 to 2018 we put on Madison+ Ruby, a T-shaped conference, in Downtown Madison, WI that celebrated people. Whether that meant embracing our authentic selves, searching for the Meaning of (Artificial) Life, or creating Sweaters as a Service. After a five-year hiatus weâre bringing it back
April 23, 2024
âThanks for getting your brain juice on my code.â What we did: Designed multiple lists feature for Curators Won a proposal to help a client improve their product management chops Hosted a user research watching party to revisit prior sessions in light of new research questions.
April 8, 2024
Iâm 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 weâre working
April 1, 2024
During a recent visit to Chicago, I met up with a friend for coffee who asked me a seemingly straightforward question about my business: âAre you hiring juniors?â Despite its simplicity, I found myself hesitating with the response. Reflecting on my own career journey, I understand the immense
March 25, 2024
âThose developersâŠwhatâre you up to?â 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
March 11, 2024
âNo apparent blockers other than the concept of time.â 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
February 26, 2024
âThatâs how software works, we go into peopleâs dreams at night.â What we did: Allll of the bug fixes/improvements â 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
January 31, 2024
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, thereâs no telling how markets and directions could change. That
January 30, 2024
âThat shipping forecast is a bop.â 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
January 16, 2024
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 itâd take to solve them. Began sketching and writing
December 18, 2023
âI donât know why I have the âyeehawsâ this morning and Iâm sorry dude.â What we did: Finished a blog post on styling disabled buttons with Hotwire Learned about using nip.io to allow me to use my mobile device while testing on my local environment Wrestling with inline
December 6, 2023
Itâs Wednesday. Youâve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project youâve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one
December 4, 2023
âHereâs the problem with humansâŠâ What we did: Had a 1x1 with a client to check in on progress and talk about resourcing in the new year. Used Ahoy gem to keep track of user events and created tables and graphs to meaningfully showcase those events. Held a planning meeting and
