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Rogue One’s Killer UI Designs

Spoiler-free comment on Rogue One: I was really impressed with the variety of UI designs depicted in the movie, which I’ve learned were created by UK-based design firm Blind. Blind had to thread a tricky needle: Whereas the trend with sci-fi UI these days is to go visually-dense Iron-Man-style, like this…

…the Rogue One designs had to be suitably science-y, yet still appear consistent in time with Star Wars: A New Hope—which was designed in the mid-1970s. To refresh your memory, these are the types of displays we saw in A New Hope:

And here’s what Blind created for Rogue One:

I think they totally nailed it. I love the chunky linework, the sparing use of text and the predominantly monochromatic color schemes. (By the bye I’m assuming they didn’t do the physical interfaces around some of the screens, but whomever did those deserves praise too—they all look like totally “lived-in” environments.)

Check out more of Blind’s work, including their stuff for The Force Awakens, here.