Delightful Reveal #11

This week we’re celebrating, on top of everything else, winning work with our client’s customer with their approval.

What we did:

• Drafted a presentation for the company
• Fixed some decade-old code that was never re-thought when the front-end it supports went from being a web form to a GraphQL API
• UI Card design for contact list information and email compose wizard polishing as we are getting closer to the finish line
• Submitted a talk to ConFig 2023

• Travel Logistics Platform

  • Sprint planning! Feel the fresh air!
  • Got data export we needed to bootstrap a project database
  • Added ability to update imported data
  • Identified what felt like unnecessary design complexity (from a UX standpoint), and decided to reframe the problem a bit.
  • Chatted with the client about planning the next big phase of our project
  • Got through some mini rebase hell merging a ton of work that happened last cycle

• Supplier Directory Project

  • Finished interviewing stakeholders, agreed on codes for shared analysis 🤓and planned our next round of user interviews. 
  • Welcomed a new researcher to our project team! 
  • Planned for holding a problem statement workshop, and planned backwards from it.

What we’re reading:

• Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, 2nd Edition by John Abrams
• Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
• April issue of Ceramics Monthly magazine
• Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
• A deep dive into the color pink

What we’re watching:

• Operation Mincemeat
• Michael Collins
• Dance 100
• SHRiNKING (Season Finale!)
• Boston Strangler
• The Mandalorian
• Ted Lasso
• Perry Mason
• A haka in drag

What we’re listening to:

• If the B-52’s wrote “Smooth”
• One Year: 1977
• Y5 the new album by Yuna 
• Smartless: Jon Favreau
• Emiliana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra - Hilton (Official Video) 
• Lone Didion

What we’re interested in:

• Obsidian MD
• De Vulgari Eloquentia
• Laying Out a Print Book With CSS
• Beginner Bounties
• Maximum Fun becoming a co-op
• Mango white chocolate chip cookies

What we’re struggling with:

• Organization
• Snow
• Very up-and-down NoVA temperatures
• Politics. Lack of consequences. Did we get ‘em yet?
• Oak pollen

What we’re buying:

• Dog Jammies (so Daphne can wear them instead of the Cone of Shame)
• Schmancy Mitzi bathroom lights for a bathroom remodel
• Tree of Life online ceramic class with Munisa Ceramica

What we’re celebrating:

• Launched a sidecar application to production AND the client’s customer loved it so much they want to know if we can build software for them.
• Stained Glass collab that is completed and handed to the new owner
• Planting cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and potatoes
• Fresh kiln unload
• National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) season starts tomorrow

If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.