Delightful Reveal #28

Everything you do and don’t get done today is more than enough.

What we did:

• Implemented a slide-up using javascript Animation API; thanks ChatGPT!
• Created case study story highlights for Instagram.
• Finished creating brand guidelines to provide our client with resources and documentation about the brand identity we designed for their suite of applications.
• Read about and discussed various resources about how boards, management, and cooperatives have discrete roles and where their concerns overlap.
• Reviewed recordings of several end-to-end user research sessions and reflected on humbling usability errors that we can make improvements to address.
• Completed four moderated, summative usability tests. Conducted both deductive and inductive analysis and generated highlight reels and a Mural board for further review. Identified initial, high-level takeaways. Discussed some ideas for resolving critical usability errors.
• Planned for and scheduled epicycle planning workshop.
• Spent time working on what micro animations could be for a marketing site to showcase their products benefits.
• Attended a short company summit where we covered upcoming needs and pushed along company goals. Agreed a plan of attack for a management retro.
• Published our first Developer Roundtable episode on Youtube!
• Created a pdf inspection report for MyMomentum.

What we’re reading:

• The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
• The Dojo4 Playbook
• The Enspiral Handbook
• The GreaterThan Handbook
• How to Say Goodbye: The Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers
• L’appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
• Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco
• The affordance loop by Erin Kissane
• How Professional Ethics Work by Siderea
• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
• Avoid The Seagull Effect: The 30/60/90 Framework For Feedback by Lauren Moon 

What we’re watching:

• For the Love of Kitchens
• Young Sheldon
• Platonic
• The Bear
• Light Sleeper (1992)
• Taxi
• Secret Chef
• Joy Ride
• 溶けやすさレベル１０の液体ねこ。-Liquid Maru with level 10 of meltability.
• The Problem With Apu
• Renfield
• What we do in the Shadows - new season
• The Peripheral
• GWAR: Tiny Desk Concert

What we’re listening to:

• Critical Role, campaign two (The Mighty Nein)
• Turtles All The Way Down by Sturgill Simpson
• Crowded Table by Highwomen
• Metric - Just the Once
• Manwolves

What we’re interested in:

• Going to a local distillery for a tour and tasting to learn more about their business and process - State Line Distillery 
• Ethics and morality
• Lincoln Lake. An bouldering oasis hidden up in the clouds.
• Barbie, the movie
• Oppenheimer, the movie
• Barbenheimer, the mashup
• Barbie cocktails at The Broad Theater (Relevant Image)

What we’re struggling with:

• runtime vs. compile-time application configuration
• Florida school system
• Misogyny, xenophobia, and fat shaming in Taxi, the show
• HEIC Images. 

What we’re buying:

• First pair of earrings
• Plants. And moar plants
• Glass boba straws and stainless steel ice cubes

What we’re celebrating:

• Getting the Steam Deck set up and enjoying games I haven’t been able to play before

  • Carrion
  • SUPERHOT (It’s the most innovative shooter I’ve played in years.) +1
• Traveling next week!
• Birthday milestone and a week off of work

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