@Render
Are they trying to send a message? 😜
Humans are so....

But leave it to my wife to plan on visiting 2 cities each on two islands half way around the world with connections and rental cars.

I'll need some sort of talisman to make this all come together.

I think I just finished planning our big vacation. We leave on Thursday morning.

Every hour is planned. I know it will not work out that way, but at least we can get back on track if we want to see certain things.

Lots of driving, too. I made a bunch of personal Google maps and printed them for backup.

There is a LOT of room for improvement and automation in this vacation planning space. I can see great opportunities for AI to make this easier and faster.

@heatherdale
This past week I've been documenting the process I thought I understood months ago. I thought I needed only about 3 modules.

I just counted 56 process steps this morning.

I look at documentation like playing a piano. If it doesn't sound right, play it differently.

I'm starting off using a tabular format to get the macro perspective. That's the 56 processes.

The flowchart should be more simple and will be informed by the tabular format.

Better than bad code!

@heatherdale @XSGeek
(CoSo isn't pushing notifications, so I just saw this now)

I think flowcharting is an excellent way of getting your thoughts clear. Your process does sound complex. But, if you don't try to flowchart it, you may be allowing it to become more complex than it has to be.

I often iterate on the flowchart. Yes/No branching (Questions that can only be answered as Y/N) is a great exercise to determine what is most important at what time.

If you are so inclined and fortunate, time to order flowers for delivery to your mother for Mother's Day. Those florists can cut off orders if you wait too long.

Biden will be in San Francisco on Thursday. You should hear the sounds of helicopters overhead and vacuum cleaners near the ground sucking up donations.

@EvilBunny
Is that a martini in the middle of the hanging-cross? 😜

@heatherdale @XSGeek
I do not. But, I have found that structuring your requirements in a tabular format is adequate. So, a spreadsheet is how I start.

Flesh out the Design Principles first. They evolve as you progress.

I'm only now starting to understand how to systematically build UX requirements. So, I'm no expert.

Process design is ok to start with tabular format. But, flowcharts are still the best way to finish.

No problem is worth fixing unless you know how it breaks a valuable best-practice.

The Structure of a Best Practice:
-Description
-Trigger Event
-End-State
-Stakeholders, Orgs & Roles
-Systems
-Pre-Existing Conditions
-Scope
-Steps
-Metrics

The context of Problems that cause failure:
-Problems within Pre-Existing Conditions
-Problems within Steps

First, understand what Success looks like. Then understand how the problem makes it Unsuccessful.

@CinnamonGirlE
It looks delicious!

@Spagesgallo1 @Maude
"bullet-dodged"

@heatherdale @XSGeek
I'm also still on the non-technical side. It's my day-job. I write requirements, specs and design process flows for clients.
Then AI showed me that I could actually code. After a year coding with AI, I've been able to make a lot of progress building an MVP. I'd have needed 2-3 engineers to do what I've built by myself.

@XSGeek
I'm also about to start learning about NoSQL databases. Probably going with MongoDB.

@XSGeek
I'm deconstructing the sequence of LLM prompts that will build an SOP for wildfire mitigation.

The really interesting process is designing the QA procedures to minimize the impact of LLM hallucinations.

@Render
So....a high-stakes exercise of telephone tag?

Rainbow off our new bevelled mirrors at sunset right now

@Oma_Trisha
Great advice.
And, something I personally need to do.
The hard part for me is to consider the scenarios. Then decide what I want to happen.
I made it clear to my wife, just last week, that I value my brain over my body. But, that doesn't answer a lot of questions many scenarios will spawn.
Work to do!

@th3j35t3r
Nobody gets mad like that without a lot of unrelated baggage fueling the fire

Father in law had successful surgery, but now we know it's cancer.
Prognosis still TBD.
Next big question will be: Do you want to go through chemo and feel like shit for, potentially, years? Or, live out your last days with a slow decline.
At 88, these are already the bonus years of life.
I think we all need to consider that we will, one day, face our last day alive. That's ok. It's nature doing what it does. Maybe the more we consider it when we are approaching that day the easier it will be