[HN Gopher] The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
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The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
Author : rcdemski
Score : 486 points
Date : 2024-11-28 19:00 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (interactionmagic.com)
| pvg wrote:
| A thread at the time
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035866 and a little one a
| bit later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502811 both with
| some author comments
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Macroexpanded:
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| _The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502811 - Dec 2021 (10
| comments)
|
| _The UX of Lego Interface Panels_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035866 - Aug 2020 (38
| comments)
| nom wrote:
| The best interface bricks are these ones that actually work:
|
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=0pUV_3qeHog
|
| They even put an accelerometer in it, so it can show a working
| horizon!
|
| The console bricks were so special back then. When you got one in
| a set it was like finding a rare specimen. Bricks look all alike,
| but those were different!
| nlawalker wrote:
| Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32531887
| Rygian wrote:
| The analysis of real-life interfaces is quite interesting, and as
| a novice in the field I had never reflected much on the by-
| feature / by-operation / by-technology / by-use case distinction.
| istrice wrote:
| This kind of post makes me tingle with joy
| sghiassy wrote:
| It's like a Christmas ornament. Unnecessary in utility, and yet
| so fun to enjoy
| soulofmischief wrote:
| I wish my phone was more like a bop-it.
| hennell wrote:
| You're only a tube of glue and a bad decision away
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| I wish I had a use case for a cyberdeck.
| jddj wrote:
| I'd like it if I could zoom on my phone on a site about ui/ux
| with small pictures.
| ndjdjddjsjj wrote:
| My Samsung phone on Chrome lets me.
| iamjackg wrote:
| If you're on Android, there's an accessibility option in
| Firefox and Chrome that allows you to always zoom on any page,
| even if the website normally prevents it. On Firefox it's under
| Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom on all websites.
| jddj wrote:
| That's better, thanks
| george_cave wrote:
| Hey, I'm the author of this site! You're on Android I think,
| based on the other comments here? I only have an iPhone to
| test, but I can pinch+expand the site on my phone no problem.
| Was not intentional to have blocked it! Sorry, I'll see if I
| can work out why.
| sira04 wrote:
| It's this in the <head> <meta name="viewport"
| content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-
| scale=1.0">
|
| Remove the maximum-scale property.
| george_cave wrote:
| Thanks! Will try shortly. I guess iOS/Safari just ignores
| this property then.
| jddj wrote:
| Firefox Android, yep.
|
| That makes some sense actually if iOS ignores it. Whenever I
| come across the behaviour I wonder _why_ , but if it's just a
| copy/paste magic meta tag which goes unnoticed by most
| browsers then I can see how that could proliferate.
| george_cave wrote:
| Ok, this should be fixed now, let me know if you still
| can't zoom!
| jddj wrote:
| Works, thanks
| tda wrote:
| Works for me!
| mlsu wrote:
| Hah! Awesome post. I have to say my favorite as a kid was the
| white radar screen with the "38" on it. Maybe I should have gone
| into UX?
| seumars wrote:
| That's the UI. There's no actual interaction with the screens.
| eru wrote:
| UX stands for user experience, not for interaction?
| mulmen wrote:
| How do you experience an interactive system without...
| interaction?
| edent wrote:
| Imagine you go to a foreign country. You want to buy a
| train ticket. You walk to the station and go to the ticket
| machine. You see a dizzying array of levers, buttons,
| sliders, and dials. Each labelled with diagrams which don't
| make sense to you.
|
| You back away slowly from the machine and try to find a
| human ticket seller.
|
| Have you experienced the machine?
| chefandy wrote:
| Even if they were talking about interaction design (sometimes
| called IX) specifically, rather than experience design, the
| interaction is in handling, moving, and combining them. They
| don't need to have a dynamic electronic interaction to be
| interactive. I'm not sure a toy with absolutely no interaction
| would still be a toy.
| seumars wrote:
| Yes, but in this specific case the focus is on the design
| elements labeled onto the lego blocks.
| carlosjobim wrote:
| You can interact with them for example by licking them, or
| stepping on them.
| curtisf wrote:
| Only tangentially related, but just yesterday I learned of Lego's
| defunct "Modulex" brand, and the serious and apparently widely
| popular Lego-brick-based project management display boards from
| the '60s to the '90s.
|
| The small size and comforting pastel colors seemed especially
| inviting to me.
|
| It makes me yearn for more tactile and actually pleasant-to-work-
| with computer UIs.
| matthewfcarlson wrote:
| I wonder if there's a 3D printed version somewhere online
| eru wrote:
| The link to the Audi examples is dead, but you can find an
| archived version at
| https://web.archive.org/web/20211126012727/https://deeptread...
| xorcist wrote:
| This is a lovely example of great design. Beautiful, too. I'm
| sad to see it didn't catch on.
|
| On a related note, I would like to own an EV -- but a
| touchscreen operated car is out of the question. Where did all
| those competent designers go and why didn't they design an
| electric car?
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Thankfully it looks/sounds like they're moving away again
| from touchscreen-only operation. It's probably an Apple
| effect where the established brands follow the innovator,
| without actually confirming what the innovator did was good.
| awinter-py wrote:
| you and the us navy
|
| https://news.usni.org/2019/08/09/navy-reverting-ddgs-back-
| to...
|
| they ripped out the GUI-based controls after a bad crash
|
| (actual story is more complicated though -- they transferred
| partial control of the helm to another station, instead of
| transferring full control, leading the new operator to think
| they had lost control of the boat. similar thing happened
| with air france 447 where a single pilot panicked and the
| others couldn't observe their control input)
| george_cave wrote:
| Oh good catch, I'll update it in the article.
| hawski wrote:
| I don't like this design all that much. It makes sense, but it
| is too spaced out for me.
|
| I love the design I have in my current car - Renault Laguna 3.
| The HVAC control panel is between air vents and on the top it
| has three buttons: Soft, Auto and Fast. I like how it uses
| words with no negative connotations (it could be Slow and
| Hard). Soft is for it to be quiet, Auto is the most common
| setting for me and Fast is self-explanatory, though also
| recommended if you have passengers on the backseat. Then there
| is the current temperature (and other HVAC settings) display
| and finally very comfortable and big up/down rocker switches to
| change the temperature with a 0.5degC resolution. I usually do
| not change the temperature much. A knob seems to invite changes
| for people who do not understand a concept of a thermostat.
|
| Then there is AC off, closed circulation, fan speed and air
| distribution buttons. Right below this are buttons for quick
| defogging (I don't know how to call it) and the back window
| heating. Buttons that do not change the state shown on the LCD
| display have their little LEDs to signify their state.
|
| You can see it in action here:
| https://youtu.be/oNHvtI_8A5w?t=12
| CarVac wrote:
| Wow, that Lincoln MKC was unfortunate.
|
| https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/05/recalled-li...
|
| Seems like they moved the power button to the top of the column.
| stavros wrote:
| Does that button really start and stop the engine? In other
| cars I've seen, the start/stop button (with similar
| iconography) toggles the start/stop system, which shuts off the
| engine when the car is stationary to avoid pollution.
| RedShift1 wrote:
| In my car (BMW from 2012), the engine does not shut off when
| you press the start/stop button when you're driving. It only
| shuts off the engine when you press it AND you're stationary.
| This seems like a totally obvious interlock to me, it puzzles
| me that Ford didn't think of this and as a solution moved the
| button instead.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Somebody posted some beautiful and inspired Lego renderings of
| their red science pack factory, created in Bricklink Studio 2.0,
| to the Factorio Facebook group.
|
| https://www.facebook.com/groups/factoriogroup/posts/24121149...
| awinter-py wrote:
| 'organized -- chaotic' and 'all screen -- no screen' are truly
| the main axes of UI design
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