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Questions tagged [gui-design]

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What is a proper way of building Winform apps with multiple "screens"

What's a proper way of building a Winform app that has multiple 'screens'? For example, I'm trying to write a small backup program (mainly for giggles), and I've been dumping controls and containers onto the form. I'm using panels and group boxes…
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When is an application too customizable?

Say you are developing a desktop application, and you want the user to be able to customize menus, buttons, keymapping, and other commands and components. How much customization should be allowed? I like my environments to be pretty much infinately…
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Good design patterns within JavaFX -- MVC?

I have used a lot of JavaFX and am familiar with the technical aspects. Now, as I foray into a very large application with hundreds of views, I want to make sure I start strong with a solid design. This is purely a client application, backend is…
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Good resources for web form design and usability

Can anyone suggest good resources about web form design and usability for web applications? Especially complex forms with 15+ fields etc.
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How come the design process is so different for Web Design and GUI Design?

I had the opportunity to develop applications in several niches: server back-end, desktop clients, and recently a small scale website. Once indulged in the website design I am asking myself and you how come the UI design process is so different?…
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Are there any GUI or user interface design patterns?

I was curious about GUI design patterns, so I searched and got some information, including a list of UI patterns for the web. This UI patterns website says that: UI Patterns is a growing collection of User Interface Design Principles and User…
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At what point in the process do you create the visual design?

I like to do a wireframe before I start coding and work from there. But when should I start worrying about the visual design? When should I consider the colours, the font, whether corners should be round or sharp, icon design, etc? Is that the last…
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How to separate serialization, visualization and computation from GUI editable code objects?

This might be an X Y problem, but here's my situation. I've got a QT5 C++ code base whose task it is to allow for the configuration of a "process chain". A "process chain" here means a list of linked elements who execute in sequential order,…
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Why update client model before sever model?

In tutorials I've seen, when data changes on the client (maybe a TODO is added to the TODOs list) the client side model (and often UI) is updated first, then the server is called to persist that change. This puzzles me as there's the potential for…
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How do you take into account usability and user requirements for your application?

Our team supports BackOffice application: a mix of WinForm and WPF windows. (about 80 including dialogs). Really a kind of a Swiss Army Knife. It is used by developers, tech writers, security developers, testers. The requirements for new features…
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Developing web sites that imitate desktop apps. How to fight that paradigm?

Supposse there's a company where web sites/apps are designed to resemble desktop apps. They struggle to add: Splash screens Drop-down menus Tab-pages Pages that don't grow downward with content, context is inside scrollable area so page is of a…
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What is the best way to allow a non-coding designer to design intranet web pages?

We have an intranet site which was done in .net with plenty of functionality but management wants it to look more visually attractive and get the graphic designer involved. The graphic designer is NOT a programmer nor has any desire to learn how to…
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Multi application handling from single GUI

I'm searching for an approach to a very generic problem. In my recent private project, I want to control different Applications from a single GUI. To make the idea more clear I'll explain my project a little bit: I want to make an Augmented Reality…
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Other than XML, what are some examples of "coding" a GUI design?

I've been trying to think outside of the box as to how desktop GUIs can be designed in code(not a graphical designer!). I've come across basically three ways this is done: XML Raw code (create a window, create a text box, add text box to window,…
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Do people use any tools to make Rich UI on Web Application?

As titled, take ASP.NET/Perl/PHP for example. Because I don't have chance to work with UI Designer/or know anyone like that, so I really wonder do they use any tools to do the UI design? I don't mean tools like PhotoShop or Flash to make the…
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