I had to help with a school Christmas party for my daughter. Russell and Abby started at 2 pm. I jumped on at 3:15 pm.

Meeting with Russell and Abby. They were going over some options for app and web desktop layouts. Russell was teaching Abby and doing some training on design and layout options. Here are some other notes that I took, once I joined:

- The more people that you talk to, the more feedback you can get. That really helps.

- Having a reason behind what you do and why you do it.

- A good system or interface system that teaches the user about itself and how to use it.

We kept going over some layout options, for almost the whole time. We jumped into Adobe XD and showed Abby what some advanced layouts look like and such. We showed her some things from Jonathan Wells. We also showed her some historical stuff from both Russell and I over the years. You could see the progression. That was kinda fun.

Russell had to jump off around 4:30 pm. Abby and I met for another hour going over her stuff and direction for the future. We looked at a few more samples and she showed me a flyer that she was working on. She is still in training mode. We then talked about some plans and where we want her to focus. She will be building out some of the graphics for the adilas lite project, starting as of January 1st of 2026. That will be one of her first main assignments and projects. Nothing like jumping into the deep end... :)