Design Thoughts - Bruno Scheufler

While I'm primarily a software engineer focused on the architecture and implementation of backend infrastructure, I've had my fair share of side projects and companies which required me to wear the hat of a designer. I've always enjoyed carefully-crafted products and have spent some time thinking about what makes a good user interface. Here are some of my thoughts on the topic.

Jul 02, 2023

An engineer’s guide to UI design

Designing user interfaces can seem like a notoriously hard task, especially when you’re used to seeing highly-polished results from the work of multiple designers in bigger teams. When you only have an idea in mind, it can be hard to get it onto (virtual) paper. Most design sessions started with me working on ten areas at once to come up with designs like the following....Design

Jun 07, 2020

Picking the perfect Serif typeface

Picking a fitting typeface is one of the most important choices when designing a product. Typefaces, depending on the area of use, will convey brand personality equally if not more than other style decisions, like colors, or spacing. Between sans-serif and serif, handwriting, or monospace, there's a plethora of font varieties, each with different use cases, each emitting a different emotion. And then there's the vast internet at your fingertips, with thousands of available typefaces, each having a collection of fonts in different sizes, weights, and overall styles....Design