Delightful Reveal #75

“did you ever braid your 3 rat-tails together” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Refining a logo that the client suggested for their application
• Designing a way to communicate a phone or email’s validity and stats based on usage within a communication system.
• Got lost in complex queries and logic
• Mentoring a local artist/entrepreneur through Doyenne Group
• Created compliance sheets for multiple disciplines for Training Tracker to distribute
• Week 2 of Rails Book Club: Agile Web Development with Rails 8
• Designed a t-shirt, splash page, and home page for Rocky Mountain Ruby
• Set up a “Value Message Matrix” for viewing / editing by admins
• Made optional “magic links” as a login choice
• Handed over sign designs for RailsConf Philadelphia for a first round of review
• Extracted data from a Microsoft Access DB and imported to PostgreSQL for ETL
• Helping a client answer a Cyber Risk Assessment to integrate with Oracle
• User tested a new client product that is pilot launching in the beginning of May
• Prepared low fidelity designs of a new user flow with a list of questions to help determine requirements with a client
• Met with a client’s dev team to discuss how best to support dynamic type sizing based on content length

What we’re reading:

• The Wake Up by Michelle MiJung Kim
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Excession, by Iain M. Banks
• One More Thing, Stories and Other Stories by BJ Novak
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor

What we’re playing:

• Fromage
• Binho
• Sushi Go!
• Which Year

What we’re watching:

• The Last of Us S2
• The Pitt
• Black Mirror
• Daredevil: Born Again
• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory S3
• Andor: Season 2 +1
• Project Runway
• The Neighborhood S1
• The Residence
• Dirilis Ertugrul
• Baz Lurhmann’s Elvis movie

What we’re listening to:

• Vile Bees
• The Rest Is Entertainment
• The Crux by Djo
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Barbra Streisand ft. Hozier
• Dandelion by Ariana Grande
• Sierra Ferrell
• Maggie Rogers + Sylvan Esso cover of “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl”

What we’re interested in:

• Sporting Clay Shooting
• Sculpting a cake in the shape of Sasquatch.
• Paper mache mushrooms and insects
• Volleyball rotations
• Digging through one man’s entire donated comic book collection, there are sooooo mannnnny boxxxxessss. Early 50’s comics to now.

What we’re struggling with:

• Blog posts
• Waiting for a baby to roll over
• Waiting for a crown to be replaced
• Walking up large rock hills
• Crochet gauge
• Teenagers
• Cat finding the only carpeting in the room to puke on
• Pollen
• Designing the stage and event space for Madison Reading Project’s: Read(y) to Wear event. Prototyping things for the staff to do while I am not there.
• Growing out my hairs (the urge to chop is so real)
• Jazz Dads taking over my neighborhood—kinda fun but it’s also a lot

What we’re buying:

• Baby hearing protection
• Binho board
• Formaggio +1
• Cool bug-themed art prints and magnets
• So many books in celebration of Indie Bookstore Day this past weekend

What we’re celebrating:

• Sister found a rare fungi in her microbiology course
• Finn’s blood work came back normal (good sign because he started a new chemo medication)
• Got to take the motorcycle out for the first time this year
• A friend’s 50th birthday and the arrival of their siblings & best friend from Sicily (who speak zero English)
• Finding cool rocks
• Fresh bread
• Spring
• Locomoting

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