{"id":13237,"date":"2020-08-12T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13237"},"modified":"2020-08-12T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:12:17","slug":"a-deep-dive-into-lego-uis-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/a-deep-dive-into-lego-uis-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"A deep dive into Lego UIs (seriously!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh man&#8230; if some lab were tasked with conjuring peak delicious nerdery right up my &amp; my son&#8217;s alleys, they&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designedbycave.co.uk\/2020\/LEGO-Interface-UX\/\">stop here &amp; declare victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Piloting an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-de\/product\/ocean-exploration-ship-60266\">ocean exploration ship<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-de\/product\/mars-research-shuttle-60226\">Martian research shuttle<\/a>\u00a0is serious business. Let\u2019s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45\u00b0, the ubiquitous \u201c2&#215;2 decorated slope\u201d is a LEGO minifigure\u2019s interface to the world.<\/p><p>These iconic, low-resolution designs are the <strong>perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design<\/strong>. Armed with 52 different bricks, let\u2019s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.<\/p><p>Welcome to the world of LEGO UX design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LegoUI-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LegoUI-1024x572.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LegoUI-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LegoUI-768x429.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/LegoUI.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/switches-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/switches-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/switches-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/switches-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/switches.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy! [Via Ben Jones, whom I deeply blame for taking me down this rabbit hole]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man&#8230; if some lab were tasked with conjuring peak delicious nerdery right up my &amp; my son&#8217;s alleys, they&#8217;d stop here &amp; declare victory. Piloting an\u00a0ocean exploration ship\u00a0or\u00a0Martian research shuttle\u00a0is serious business. Let\u2019s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45\u00b0, the ubiquitous \u201c2&#215;2 decorated slope\u201d is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13249,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13237\/revisions\/13249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}