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LEGO: A Perfect User Experience

By Thomas Fletcher on Mar 4, 2013 3:23:38 PM

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I came across this post in UX Magazine on LEGO as a Near-Perfect User Experience, and it totally resonated with me ... and not just because I love LEGO.

The concept of building blocks of functionality with consistent and reliable interfaces is what makes LEGO work so well and it is something that software developers are always striving to achieve with libraries and functions we develop as well.  In Storyboard this manifests itself as a consistent design model with re-usable graphical elements that can be shared throughout your application design.  Plug-in new image assets and the UI will automatically adjust to show the updated content in all locations where those assets were previously used. 

While many UI's talk about Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns, Storyboard strongly enforces the decoupling of the UI from the system logic through the use of our cross platform Storyboard IO allowing UI development to proceed in a data driven manner independent of the sources providing that data.  Run the UI you develop in Storyboard on your desktop, your tablet or your deeply embedded target and plug-in the data through simulation, testing frameworks or real hardware interaction ... it all just works!

Thomas

Written by Thomas Fletcher

Thomas is a co-founder and VP of Research and Development. With 20+ years in embedded software development and a frequent presenter at leading industry events, Thomas is a technical thought leader on Embedded System Architecture and Design, Real-time Performance Analysis, Power Management, and High Availability. Thomas holds a Master of Computer Engineering from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria.