Sorry, I've been a bit distracted for the last 25 years

https://farrant.me/posts/sorry-ive-been-a-bit-distracted-for-the-last-25-years/

Nicolas Solerieu - Web designer, father, cyclist and weirdo based in San Luis Obsipo, CA

blog / Nuggets of PM wisdom

https://slrncl.com/blog/2024-05-13-nuggets-of-pm-wisdom

Daytona early logo concepts, found in my figma recent draft folder

4 ellipses – an exercise of restraint – to use figma more mindfully, and escape the hell of hundreds of stacked unnamed layers

Staycation report: terrible hike due to moody toddler, great views and diffused light. For once I didn't regret carrying my XT-1

Playing around some wholesome robot stuff

I gave a spin to GitHub core feature submenu icons to learn SVG animations. No software, no plugin, just CSS and HTML/SVG - not the most impressive piece of motion design but it’s smooth and light (27KB)

Some basic responsive layout. I'm feeling good about the type variation and how it accommodate long SEO optimized headlines. It's not ideal, I'd prefer shorter across the board, but it works...

Designing a docs site = Picking icons for a doc

Getting back into Vectary.io during baby naps and between meetings

Cockpit view – please enjoy my ergonomic setup

Just making stuff to relieve remote work anxiety - An idea mixing the actual pixel 3 watch UI with high end watch design (Bell&Ross, Panerai). Sandblasted titanium finish squared case instead of a glossy bubble.

30min in figma

Same quirky font, splatter texture, copy, reformatted... which may look like an abomination. Perhaps too clean for the rebel brand?

The current homepage hero + header is a lot visually so instead of drooling over bikes I gave it a 20min spin in figma.

slrncl.com/things - my favorite things. A simple portrait as an homage with a short note. As anti elite-designer goods showcase.

Lots of logo work these days, not loving it

I liked it, they didn't, so here it lives

I indulged in a hour-ish redesign of one of GitHub Desktop, for no good reason - I call that "stress designing" just to prove myself I can still make something

Earlier this year I went redesigned my website yet again

This year's is inspired by paper

Daytona CLI UX -- Mandatory ASCII render of the logo for the lanucher

So ready for some spatial computing era blogging

I wrote a piece of documentation explaining how to render UI in marketing context (for GitHub): https://brand.github.com/graphic-elements/product-ui

This is the most relatable post I read in a month: https://farrant.me/posts/sorry-ive-been-a-bit-distracted-for-the-last-25-years/

A basic square grid system for Daytona blog. Here is the set of square micro illustrations

I wrote this mostly for fun and to keep a record of these nuggets: https://slrncl.com/blog/2024-05-13-nuggets-of-pm-wisdom

Why is this not a thing? Can we get a simple GPS tracker in native iOS utility apps so I don't need to download some bogus over engineered fitness app?

Staycation report 3/3 - I updated my personal gallery with all of my latest decent shots:  slrmcl.com/moments ✌️

Sometimes I buy stuff and end up really liking it. Often it's from cheap looking shopify websites. My Bertucci watch is one of these story. I really like it but the website could use some love.

He is my 20min redesign of the product page

A few hero concepts designed for the GitHub Advanced Security landing page redesign. None of these made it ✌️

Native features glances for App&Flow react native section

Bento – 10min in vectary, for my (new) archive/gallery folder at slrncl.com/gallery

Taking advantage of AI. trying to live with my time 🙈

Random render that looks somehow satisfying

I still post my unexceptional weekend photos on unsplash, how silly...

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