Nick Jones

Hello, I'm Nick, I am a freelancer. This is my new portfolio: narrowdesign.com please tell your friends

If you feel your team struggles with shipping WebGL/3D. I'm capturing some leads for this: keyframe.systems.

@MatthiasCordes @destroytoday It would be a 15 year long video or it’s bullshit

@destroytoday @narrowd Great work! Would also love to see a video tutorial on how to build these types of animations.

🚀 Today’s the day! I reunited with my friends at @stripe to build the website for @openstandard. This one has a *ton* of little details (and🥚!) and I had a blast working with @JonnyNaismith @dominic_bc Pete @_MichaelJeter @mrslovich @pbueckle & WPP 👉 joinopenstandard.com

@jeffreyhuber Good question: Can we find a way to mobilize, afresh, the force of what was once called God, as a way of helping us to recreate the beauty of the Earth?

the full article in First Things - firstthings.com/making-the-gar…

you can (and should) apply this way of thinking to your vocation from Christopher Alexander, UC Berkeley professor of Architecture and author of A Pattern Language

“Football” website

Kobe talked about the game slowing down for him. Our greatest artists seem to stop time by converting densely compressed subject matter expertise into spectacles. If only there were an equation that dealt with matter and energy that showed the earthshaking potential of every bit of material.

Thinking about "creative time density": how many person-hours/years went into this specific artifact/place/experience? It's a reliable awe trigger for me. Performers spending hundreds of hours preparing a few minutes of material for a big show, a scholar spending a decade on a book, a Ghibli film, cathedrals. Not fully reliable ofc—doesn't capture the awe in jazz, plein-air painting, etc. But I think the absence of creative time density says something about what's missing in slop. At least in improv arts there's expertise density, which is a different kind of time density. Fun related concept is "auteurial time density"—how many hours/years of *one person's* idiosyncratic creative perspective is represented here? Gaudi, Welles, Klint, Caro, etc

@asallen You’ve gotten much better at drawing

Realized that I was present for Tim Cook's first WWDC and now his last 2012-2026

meaning is proportional to resonance

@amicusadastra For some reason this resonates hard

Spent a few hours refreshing my personal site. It's full of micro-details and hidden elements... ∆ · ◌◌◌ · ∆ Including an HTML in Canvas API astroid game where the page is the battlefield with enemy glyphs, elite units, lethal network connections, power-ups and levels.

finally got to make a poster monument

My favorite artifact from museum.parallel.ai

@zebriez @xai @SpaceX Inside Cursor, inside SpaceX, inside the Whitehouse

Wow, Starlink would be so cool! Feels like a long shot but do I know anyone at @xai or @SpaceX that wants to help make Inside Starlink happen?

Sometimes we make hats

@SlexAxton @fat Planet by planet

@fat bricks is probably the wrong metaphor here right

OKAY Cam planted 10 trees for us, so we'll release our trees library on Monday. Pierre Computer Company - Saving the planet one opensource project at a time. BRICK BY BRICK

one minute to appreciate this beautiful work from the @resend design team

The impact of app silos on interface invention:

@rogie @figma Hell yeah

Hey y'all, I just landed the job of my dreams. If you follow me, you all know how much I care about using modern tech to help designers be more creative. And this week, I started working on this insane and fun new project. Oh, and it's at @figma

My favorite people choose the art life

@trv_mcl @katiewav Broad Band by Claire L. Evans was a joy

@katiewav If you ask this question three times in the mirror @narrowd will appear

best books on the history of the internet? first example that comes to mind is internet for the people but that obviously has a very specific lens