What McMaster Part Are You?
A personality quiz that matches you to a real catalog part
- Role
- Solo — product, design, build
- Product type
- Web toy
What is it
"What McMaster-Carr Part Are You?" — a quiz that matches you to a real part from the catalog and gives you a tagline, a few quotes, the parts you're compatible with, and your nemesis.
Why I built it
A culture project. We had a lot of inside jokes about the catalog and no good way to share them, so I put them in a format people would actually send to each other.
What makes it interesting
Real part numbers, real catalog humor. The compatibility and nemesis logic is what makes it worth sharing. Without it you just get a static result screen nobody screenshots.
Difficulties & tradeoffs
Every result had to feel true to that part rather than randomly assigned, which meant writing a lot of content per part. That was most of the work.
What I built it with
Static site in HTML/CSS/JS with custom quiz-matching logic.
Result screen
The result card, and the matching logic running underneath it.
Result
Matching