Delightful Reveal #27

“Beware of humanity melons.”

What we did:

• Wrapped up some Flagrant website designs, handed them off to start getting developed.
• Finalized the research plan for a summative usability test, and related artifacts like session materials, a moderator’s guide, notetaker’s guide, rolling issues board, appointment slots, recruitment materials, post-test questionnaire. Scheduled a pilot test.
• Started thinking about how to best frame our next epicycle of work.
• Prevent the user from completing inspections on ‘archived’ inspection forms within MyMomentum.
• Improvements to the MyMomentum Training ‘show’ page that greatly reduce the pages load time. 
• Designed a logomark for an existing client brand.
• Reduced page load time for a critical page in our app by over a third.
• Designed a product logo for a client that’s part of a larger logo system we helped create and define.
• Posted our first Instagram reel.
• Set up a HelpScout Beacon with custom behavior.
• Improved search performance and behavior with a little Postgres magic.
• Finalizing feature marketing look and feel for a clients homepage.
• Began working on Training Tracker website refresh.
• Discussed how Flagrant can make improvements to society and the intersection of grants and our skills.

What we’re reading:

• Rag & Pulp: Creativity with Paper
• 50 Years of Text Games
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace (StoryGraph)
• Why the Confirm Password Field Must Die
• SAT Total Prep 2023
• “The Coming Humanist Renaissance” By Adrienne LaFrance (The Atlantic)
• Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco
• Understanding SVG Paths

What we’re watching:

• The Peripheral 
• Jujutsu Kaisen (just started S2!)
• Secret Chef
• 65
• Strange New Worlds S2 +1
• Platonic +1
• Crash Course in Romance
• Yellowjackets
• Women Talking
• Americonned (2023)
• The Bear S2
• Black Mirror

What we’re listening to:

• Exist - Exo 
• Seven - Jungkook of BTS
• Madison Cunningham
• Conquer Divide
• Reimagining The Internet #82. Twitter Blocked Tracy Chou’s Anti-Harassment App. Now She Wants to Fix Your Browser. 
• Who Is She? - Thursday (Official Music Video) 
• Killer Mike - Scientists & Engineers ft. Future, Andre 3000, Eryn Allen Kane

What we’re interested in:

• Collage
• Musicambia
• Reminding family members who have become keepers of microfilm music libraries that need to be digitized that librarians serve the public (and know a lot about microfilm!)
• The new racing cups released for MarioKart 8

What we’re struggling with:

• Figuring out directions to the hostel I’m going to stay at
• A coprophagic dog
• The urge to get another motorcycle
• real deletions vs. soft deletions, especially in a new-to-me database interface
• Figma notifications in the UI when you are not working within a space and missing when people need feedback 
• How dang expensive travel is

What we’re buying:

• MS Flight Simulator (soon with Dune ornithopter support!)
• Hairbands 
• Glass boba straws
• On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria
• The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles
• a Steam Deck with accessories, like a folding bluetooth keyboard
• Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

What we’re celebrating:

• Seeing some friends this weekend.
• Traveling next week!!
• Planning a San Diego trip with a long-distance best friend!  
• Some tree work getting done and being able to park my car near the garage again! And plug it in to charge!
• Started sharing that my partner and I are pregnant! Baby’s due in January.
• Women’s World Cup soccer starts in 6 days (July 20th). It is the last time to see Rapinoe play in a world cup, she is retiring.
• SAG-AFTRA joining the WGA strike.

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