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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels

https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces

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.

Ben Curthoys 3h ago

Aral Balkan 3h ago

Protecting children doesn’t require mass surveillance but mass surveillance requires “protecting children”.

Ben Curthoys 4h ago

Kit Yates 5h ago

Some good news.
“A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections (RSV) is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g84nxwz8wo

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80%

A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

BBC News

Ben Curthoys 1d ago

Is is possible on Mastodon to follow two different hashtags, but to mute where they both appear in the same post?

Like, #ticketing can mean "box office ticketing" which is what I do, and "help desk ticketing" which I'm not interested in.

If I follow #ticketing I might want to not see any #ticketing posts that include #helpdesk too, whilst not necessarily blocking ALL posts that include #helpdesk.

Ben Curthoys 1d ago

Jason Lefkowitz 2d ago

I'm not sure which part of this is better: the headline, or the photo illustration they came up with to accompany it

https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/15/rfk-jr-cut-raccoon-penis/

#USPol

Ben Curthoys 2d ago

Writing prompt - the person planning the heist accidentally recruits an eschatologist instead of an escapologist, but when the world ends it turns out that was exactly what they needed all a long.

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Ben Curthoys 2d ago

And yet cheap products seem to have bad design not just cheap materials, and expensive things have these nice little design touches that don't seem like they would add to the cost of production - "oooh, that pocket is just the right size instead of being slightly too small for an X".

Why is that? Why isn't anyone making well designed cheap things that sell at high volume and cover the design costs that way?

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Ben Curthoys 2d ago

So it seems to me that a cheap backpack, designed to be made and sold in volume, might have cheaper materials, might have design compromises to lower the cost, but the underlying design thinking should be BETTER.

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Ben Curthoys 2d ago

One thing that I really don't understand about product design - the design is a fixed cost. It doesn't matter whether you sell 1,000 or 1,000,000 units, the design cost is basically the same. But if you are selling 1,000,000 units, you can spread that cost over more items.

Ben Curthoys 2d ago

I don't know if anyone is super interested in backpack quality right now, but last month my partner bought one from https://www.discoversalkan.com/ which are WAY too expensive but it was heavily discounted because they were retiring the line, and she can't stop banging on about what an excellent backpack it is.

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