Delightful Reveal #13

Reminder that while you stare into ChatGPT, ChatGPT is also staring into you (i.e. collecting all the data you send to it).

What we did:

• Kicked off another sprint/cycle with clients, prioritizing our roadmap and defining acceptance criteria
• Worked with a development partner to get a data export from a customer database to seed a new product
• Figured out how to apply a “border” to a Popper.js tooltip arrow
• Wire up a prototype of the message compose wizard to find all the missing pieces of the flow and to show to developers the intention.
• Published a new blog post on (Dis)Ability: Framing value both includes and excludes
• Synthesized stakeholder interviews and met with one user (after sending invites to 40!), prepared a two-part problem statement workshop
• Informal board meeting
• Met with Shay Howe from ActiveCampaign

What we’re reading:

• The Map Is Not the Territory (Medium)
• How Design is Governance by Amber Case (Medium)
• Insta-personas and Synthetic users by Indi Young (TinyLetter)
• Re-reading, technically: The researcher’s journey: leveling up as a user researcher by Dave Hora (Medium)
• Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Time) 
• Ubu Bubu: Filth by Jamie Smart (StoryGraph) - When an innocent cat is possessed by a brutal, malevolent daemon, they become UBU BUBU, reaper of human souls and destroyer of innocents! 

What we’re watching:

• Dylan Beattie’s “Plain Text” talk (again)
• Wellmania with Celeste Barber
• The Lesson is Murder
• Ted Lasso
• Oodles of Critical Role streams (campaign #2, “The Mighty Nein”)
• Perry Mason
• Succession
• Our Flag Means Death
• Harley Quinn

What we’re listening to:

• Sidedoor — Masters of Disguise (Smithsonian)
• Aurora’s album The Gods We Can Touch (YouTube, Spotify)
• Summer 2020 by Jhené Aiko (YouTube)
• The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

What we’re interested in:

• DragonRuby game development
• ChatPDF or ChadGPT
• Juicy design

What we’re struggling with:

• The unexpected passing of young people in our lives
• Connecting with users always takes longer to coordinate than planned
• Injured pinky
• A hoop-house in the “garden” being blown away by the wind
• Parenting parents

What we’re buying:

• Posca markers for fun Sketchbook times
• Yardley London Gentleman Deodorising Talc
• This amazing Puzzle Box 
• Replacement reMarkable Marker Plus for the one I lost on the plane
• Tickets to ConFig 2023 SF
• Smoke-fired ceramics by Janene Waudby
• Paramore concert tickets
• D&D dice sets

What we’re celebrating:

• Barbie Selfie Generator
• Following this free book on how to build your first game with DragonRuby
• Rebuilding the habit of wearing a CPAP device to sleep

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