Writing – Page 2 – Brian Behrend

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July 2, 2020

New Apple Pencil Features

Been using the Apple Pencil for almost two years now and am super excited about the new Pencil UI features coming in iOS 14. Between Scribble, paste handwriting as text, smart selection, shape recognition, and more there are big improvements coming for the Pencil both as a UI tool as well as specifically for handwriting and drawing. The Sweet Setup has a great look into the implementation of the new Apple Pencil features both in Apple Notes & GoodNotes.

Worth a look to see what’s coming this Fall.

June 26, 2020

Allen HS football vs Anna HS 1968

Great video from Allen ISD’s Twitter this week of a surprisingly high res football game from over 50 years ago. Pretty cool footage.

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.

Starting a kiosk project at work and diving into some of the best practices and details of designing for a gigantic touchscreen. This article on how designing for a large public touchscreen is alike and different from mobile was super informative.

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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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