Product designer and builder.
United Kingdom
Joined July 2023
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Historactive is my new portmanteau
A historactive history of the world:
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A bit deflating when in response to your prompt you catch Claude’s thinking text momentarily displaying:
‘Explain [x] to a novice…’
Hey Claude! Ease off a little. That hurts.
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How the World's 100 Biggest Companies Started
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A filtered table. Just for you.
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Your artificial replacement has no taste.
AI-heavy teams are turning designers’ judgement into rules for the machines.
Keeping those rules current is becoming the job.
Should your taste be written down?
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It's a bit ironic to use AI to document and publish everything considered to be AI Slop.
"I'm against AI slop, but I'm not against using AI to sloppily document that slop."
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I wanted my homepage to be as performant as possible so I measured every animation on my homepage.
The fps counter was no help as macOS kept dropping the display to 30Hz on its own, even when nothing moved.
So, I measured the main-thread time instead for how many milliseconds the browser spends working while each animation runs. The busiest animation keeps the browser busy about 14% of the time.
The one real hitch was a 60ms freeze the first time you hovered on the N logo mark, while it built 5,200 particles from a photo. Now it builds them while your pointer is still on its way to the header.
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Scroll through some Architecture in Pixels
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I pointed Claude's slop cannon at @AmirMushich's
pixel-plays and my own Looks-ui and it came out alright.
I can confirm Belfast City Hall looks very different in real life. But Stonehenge came out ok 👇
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Working on 'UI taste' to go through overarching UI categories and set rules for the granular parts of the UI in each category, the way I want it. Then download it for my agent to apply to things I make.
atm I've got performance-UI to make things fast
and looks-UI to make things look good
combining them should (fingers crossed) get me closer to UI taste the way I see it.
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Design trends I see:
- lists of favourite designers
- lists of favourite tools
- single column portfolios
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Today's exploration straight from Claude's slop cannon is A History of the World.
Come and see what Claude thinks it is:
neilmcardle.com/explorations…
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I built a new ignition flip switch as my contact reveal button in the footer. neilmcardle.com
Sound on.
Inspired by the @Lamborghini Aventador
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Are numbered sections tainted by AI-slop now?
They share the smell of AI with ALL CAPS eyebrow text.
Impeccable's viewpoint: No section numbers unless the sequence itself is information.
Anthropic's viewpoint: Numbered markers only when the content really is a sequence.
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Why do wireframe.co and inflight.co feel so delicate at 100% zoom?
I wanted this sense of scale on my site.
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Thanks for sharing @ridd_design
Great to see/listen to another Christian in tech...
youtu.be/0FQC0mu5Z00?si=aczR…
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What shall I listen to...
An audio book perhaps? Nah.
A game soundtrack? Nah.
Ah yes. The sound of rain.
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All tracks findable on neilmcardle.com
Made with Colorfigures by @Aprilzz423
Video recorded with Claude Code @claudeai
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