In March 2020, the bug forced me to start working exclusively from home.
1 year later, I’m still doing homework.
This is a photo journal of that experience.
Day 01 — Last minute desk setup in my apartment
Day 01 — First digital Zoom meeting with my design team
03.17 — Warm enough to work outside 🌞
03.26 — Still figuring out how Zoom works
03.19 — First (and maybe last) digital happy hour. Zoom is tiring
03.20 — Nice Background!
03.18 — Working from a nearby park with my partner. I brought a seat cushion 😊
03.20 — I was missing my office coffee, so I got a new espresso maker
03.24 — Achieved the perfect 6x6 Zoom grid during a team meeting
03.26 — Work from bed
04.16 — Figured out how to make oat milk lattes
04.27 — Sharing a desk with these beauties
04.27 — WFH vibe is flowers & candles
04.24 — First interview with a chainsaw
04.29 — Sharing quarantine hobbies such as painting
05.07 — First meeting via phone, taken from a park.
05.08 — Multi-tasking looks like this. BBQ-ing dogs and QA-ing Jira tickets.
04.16 — First retrospective from my patio
05.15 — New office with more natural light
04.03 — We used to do team lunch breaks at Deacon's Diner, but now I just pretend
04.08 — Gang gang has aggregated
04.30 — Copped my first face mask. Reformation
04.23 — Caught on camera cutting a cantaloupe
04.17 — Caught on camera chopping heirloom tomatoes
05.15 — You can't see my screen, but I'm working on my tan
05.22 — Finally warm enough to drink iced lattes. I replicated my in-office recipe perfectly.
05.27 — Claiming this desk for the day
05.27 — Direct sunlight finally hits my patio, so I rearranged things for my morning meetings
06.02 — My partner working from our freshly acquired patio furniture
06.03 — Meeting the team's super pups 🐶
06.04 — Cooler summer morning on the patio, but candles make it cozy.
06.11 — Perfect oat milk latte this morning
06.15 — This guy's basket looks just like him
06.11 — A delicious park picnic after a long day of meetings
06.15 — Blankies :)
06.16 — Finishing up my sprint while ferrying to the Sunshine Coast
06.16 — POV: Making a prototype while sitting on a ferry
06.17 — Found an office with an ocean view. Powell River, BC
06.25 — Relocated to an even better patio. Taking a meeting in Gibsons, BC
07.07 — Someone screenshared their Zoom screen. I'm very tired of meetings.
07.06 — Patio hopping. Morning meeting from my front yard in Creston, BC
07.06 — Zoom with a view
07.07 — Rainy morning, so it's my first indoor workday in weeks
07.16 — Pep talk before the design team pitches to the CEO
07.16 — Presenting to the CEO. Also the only meeting where everyone turns their camera on
07.13 — Watching a User Research presentation. In real life, I would rather die than wear shorts into the office
07.15 — The glare from the summer sun required some scrappy solutions
07.18 — Sending one last email from the campsite. Shushwap Lake, BC.
07.28 — Taking 'team standup' literally
08.12 — After avoiding software updates for 6 months, my computer is finally unusable.
07.30 — Laughing it up in our morning meeting
08.12 — Lunch fits & team meetings. Pan con tomate & side salad
08.14 — Covid restrictions were loosened so the team had happy hour at the beach
08.16 — Another day, another picnic bench park desk
08.17 — Relocated to Powell River. My corner office for a morning of meetings.
08.19 — Actual photo of me after 2.5 hours of sprint planning
08.24 — Live streaming my coworker make bacon. Unofficial lunch and learn
08.26 — Accidentally twinning with the design team
09.23 — Cold day at the office
10.13 — Official lunch & Learn. This lady is teaching us about smoothie ratios
10.07 — Everyone realizing I am a great Zoom background
10.29 — The resemblance is out of this universe
10.29 — Trying to sketch our 'feelings' in a team retrospective
11.06 — Synergy 🍌🍌🍌
11.09 — Field trip to the office for the day. We had a seance with a Byredo candle
11.12 — It's a little late, but I finally started baking
01.27 — Waiting for the CEO to finish a phone call so I can show him the pictures I drew :)
01.28 — Taking a Zoom call on my phone in a field 😂
02.01 — Cat sitting. This little fella's name is Aspen 😻
02.11 — Hard to work when your coworker is asleep on the job
02.12 — The seldom seen 3x3 grid
02.19 — Team uniform
03.11. Working almost a year from home. First day of warm sun, so I'm back outside for my meetings ☀️
Three of the most important lessons I learned this year:
1. Don’t take the little things for granted.
2. Habits are powerful life hacks. Form good ones.
3. You can have fun in any situation with the right attitude.
‘The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.’
— Leon Battista Alberti