In addition to the Foursquare integration, I had also been working with TwoToasters as the client-side product manager for Yipit's very first mobile app!
At Flux Capacity, I specialize in helping companies make sure that they're using their development resources as a means of achieving specific & measurable business goals. Sometimes, it looks like this!
After dinner, I hid away in the bedroom to get some work done! After a few weeks of meeting with Yipit and discuss various projects that I might be able to help with, they hired me to help them define the scope and functionality of their very first mobile app and then help them find an iOS shop to get it built! They were Flux Capacity's very first client (besides Yodle). After I made some flow sketches...
This is what is what working from home looks like! Woooooo! (I like this photo in contrast to the previous photo! Mystery drugs! Chocolate croissants! I like to hold things up to my camera!)
I woke up on Friday morning to an email notifying us that our recently launched Pictimonial app got its very first customer in the wild. We were excited!
On Wednesday me and the Pictimonial team hit the streets of NYC with flyers trying to find some local businesses willing to beta-test our app and give us feedback!
...my prototype design for a line of t-shirts called Temporary that have designs on them that slowly wear away and change over multiple washes.
My idea was that you'd use two different iron-ons on the shirt. The first iron-on would be permanent, then on top of that first layer, you'd iron-on a second, semi-permanent layer that's designed to slowly wear-away as you wash it....
Until one day, the top layer is completely gone and you're left with what's underneath! I put together animated GIF versions and was all gung-ho about doing a KickStarter project for a while, but then I got busy with all sorts of other stuff! Here's the animated design for Human Skin & Bone.
I asked Vin if he could do one of children playing turning into tiny skeletons! I love the drawing he did so much! I still think it's a really neat idea for a run of t-shirts, but I got busy with other stuff.
On Wednesday night I attended a start-up presentation someone invited me to. I wasn't really feeling up to it, but in the end, I sucked it up and went!
Friday was my last full time day of work at Yodle! I started as head of product back in April of 2008 back when the company was around 45 people! In the three years I was there, the company grew to 800 people! Can't saw enough great things about the place, but after all that fast-growth, I was ready for something new!
...called Pictimonial. (Despite me leaving as a full-time employee, I signed an agreement to continue working with Yodle part-time and help them see through a few projects)
On Monday morning I came into Yodle to discover that according to my secret countdown-list, it was my last week of work! (I left Yodle to start my own product consultancy called Flux Capacity!)
...so that Grant could call into a radio show to chat about an opinion piece of his that had recently been published about Canadians and the Queen of England!. Hard at work on a Monday!
A few weeks earlier, I secretly resigned from Yodle, but agreed to stay on for an extra six month period before announcing my departure. Here's the sneaky little "countdown" chart I made and printed out to keep track of how many weeks I had left so that I could make sure I transitioned all my projects before leaving.
