Delightful Reveal #11
Is it Spring for everybody yet?
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
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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
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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.