Design – Brian Behrend

August 24, 2020

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

Dating back 50 years at this point, LEGO has designed tiny little user interfaces meant to be recognized by human-sized humans and “usable” by minifig-sized humans as well. An Austrian interaction technologist and design engineer does a fantastic deep dive into the design of LEGO interface panels as well as their real world counterparts.

February 28, 2020

Open Peeps. A hand-drawn illustration library.

Open Peeps is a collection of hand drawn vector illustrations you can mix and match and use in any project free of charge. Super flexible and inclusive. Looking forward to using in personas or storyboards in near future.

February 20, 2020

Reimagining a Self Ordering Experience

Some great thoughts and looks into the design process self-serve pizza ordering kiosk app.

January 8, 2020

The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3

Great (and long) YouTube video about the creation of Super Mario Bros. 3, the excitement around it’s release, and how it made so many of us fall in love with video games.

Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes from Nielsen Norman Group. Application usability is enhanced when the UI guides and supports users through the workflow.

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Designing a Dark Theme for OLED iPhones. Why using black backgrounds for your true-dark theme is a bad idea

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Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that lets you easily add high quality, small file size animations to any app. Be sure to also check out the free LottieFiles.com resource for tons of animations to download.

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Adapting the Booking.com mobile site for the iPhone X notch. Good details about the thought process and the CSS about dealing with the iPhone X notch particularly in landscape orientation.

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First Run UX is catalog of first run user experiences in mobile apps and other products curated by Krystal Higgins. Great resource for inspiration and best practices to make sure new users to your app hit the ground running.

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Category: Design

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

Open Peeps. A hand-drawn illustration library.

Reimagining a Self Ordering Experience

The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3

Hamburger menu alternatives for mobile navigation