Delightful Reveal #57
A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant
“Expel shredsheet” - overheard at Flagrant
What we did:
- “Valenzia I’m crying this is so incredible”. ✅ Achievement Unlocked: brought client to tears
- Recorded an episode for the #RemoteRuby Podcast
- Dug deeply into the internals of searchkick to emerge with a custom solution for advanced searching.
- Designed new slides for an series A investment pitch deck
- Presented a new logo to a client and got a great response!
- Working on rethinking and redesigning a new marketing website for the Improv Effect
- Began working on t-shirt designs for Madison+ Ruby
- Found cute pics of me at Madison+ Ruby back in 2013. Very full circle that I’m working on it a decade later.
- Began working on a dream to start a product hotline where teams can call and leave their not-NDA-violating questions for us to answer on our Flagrant blog
- Launched the new design for Training Tracker 🎊
- Registered Flagrant to do business in Vermont
- Configuring components and a UI kit in Figma for a client, optimizing for accessibility and ease of use
- Kicked off some very cool product improvements for a new client.
- Took deep breaths and leaned into change.
- Added this Schedule a call link to my LinkedIn about 8-weeks back and someone used it today for the first time.
What we’re reading:
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932 by Gabrielle Fahr-Becker
- Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
- Trapped in a Values Oasis
- Fox and I by Catherine Raven
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
- The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
- Jessica Hische’s Logo Evaluation Handbook
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
What we’re playing:
- Diablo 4: Level 50 Rogue
- Connect 4, Uno, and Clue
- DnD
- Bohnanza
What we’re watching:
- Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
- 3 body problem
- Doc Martin (season 7)
- Remembering Gene Wilder
- Trixie Motel
- The Acolyte
- Armageddon (1998)
- Game Changer
- Smartypants
- Black Barbie
- Thousandaires
- Talks at Config!
- True Detective: Night Country
- The new season of The Bear
- Better Call Saul S3
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Goldbergs
- House of Dragon
- The Boys: Season 4
- NOT THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
- Baby bears follow their mom around in real life.
- NOSFERATU - Official Teaser Trailer - Only In Theaters December 25
What we’re listening to:
- Articles of Interest: Clergy, Men of the Cloth
- Magnetic by ILLIT
- California by Chappell Roan
- Please Please Please (in the Live Lounge) - Sabrina Carpenter
- Smoke Screen season 4: Puppy Kingpin
- Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- Catching up on The Allusionist, especially the “Word Play” series
- Jhené Aiko - Define Me (interlude / Official Video)
What we’re interested in:
- Tournament of Destruction: Jefferson Speedway
- The aesthetics and shapes of the Wiener Werkstätte, in particular Koloman Moser’s work
- A Moose for Jessica
What we’re struggling with:
- so many boxes everywhere
- surprise mold in the basement
- Horrible presidential options
- The need to add AI TO EVERYTHING…”nevermind the costs”
- Mysteriously disappearing credentials
- Split keyboards
- Sinus infection + double ear infection combo 😀
- The complexity that is designing a systematic approach of semantic color variables to support dark mode and theming
- The fog of migraine after effects
- Destroyed another keyboard by spilling kombucha on it this time (last time it was milk tea)
What we’re buying:
- animal-proof trash bin locks
- maybe some dog fencing, if the pros can’t come soon
- A rug and couch
- Plants! Native Plants!
- New canvases
- Ingredients for birthday bundt cakes
- Tickets to a live-scored screening of the Labyrinth in October at a fancy local theater
What we’re celebrating:
- trading in suburban life for a more rural existence
- A break in the heat
- My native prickly pear cactus is blossoming and has put out new pups and paddles
- Blooming pepperomia
- Family Lobster-fest: annual seafood extravaganza that takes places every year in June
- The turmeric plants that have come back bigger and better this year and are taking over the front yard
- Finding a great new boarder for the dogs
- Courthouse weddings!
If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.