Category: Bookmarks

Links which I have found interesting or contain some snippet of knowledge or wisdom which I have drawn some inspiration or learnings from.

A nice read on Apple’s UI

paschmann

This will probably age quite well and worth looking back on in 10+ years …

Physicality: the new age of UI

There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.

Bookmark: Open Source Charting Library

paschmann

Happy to have stumbled across a new open source charting library for JS from the Apache Foundation. Having used everything from paid version of Highcharts.com, ChartsJS, Plotly to D3.js … it’s always a pleasure to find such a broad, well supported and extensive collection.


Looking forward to trying out this library in a new or existing project.

Apache ECharts

Apache ECharts, a powerful, interactive charting and visualization library for browser

The UX of Lego Interface Panels …

paschmann

After posting about the $100 million checkbox … I have been wondering about other really bad interface choices which have made it out into the world (and subsequently were the culprits of disaster). This is a nice article from the Interaction Magic team show casing the UX design of Lego Interface Panels, and some examples of (real world) bad patterns.

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.