ui-design means User interface design. It is the design of websites, computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, and software applications with the focus on the user's experience and interaction.
Questions tagged [ui-design]
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Android tabs vs. landscape orientation
I have a tab-based Android app. Currently, it does not support landscape mode - the one and only activity swallows all orientation changes. Now, a user asks that I support landscape for the sake of the hardware keyboard convenience.
On one hand, it…
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Android: Gradient as fill color influences stroke color
I have assigned a gradient as a fill color to my vector drawable. Strangely, the gradient has now also been adopted as the stroke color, although I actually assigned a separate color for the stroke color. Does anyone know how it comes to…
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polymer init bash: polymer: command not found
Install git.
Install the latest version of Bower.
npm install -g bower
npm install -g polymer-cli
install these one
but
polymer init
bash: polymer: command not found
i am trying so many times but not resolve this error please solve this error
$…
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How can form, designed with *.form file work in Java?
In IntelliJ form is designed in special editor and saved in two files: *.java file and *.form file.
Here is the entire code of the application:
import javax.swing.*;
public class Test02 {
private JButton button1Button;
private JButton…
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Display click-through overlay on Android, e.g. baseline grid
I want to see if my application conforms with the Material Design guidelines regarding metrics and adjust where required. For that I'd wish to have a 8dp square grid or 4dp baseline grid drawn over my whole window without intercepting touch events,…
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Should I share UI for objects that use common fields?
I have a parent class that holds all of the fields that are common between all device types. From that, I have a few derived classes that each hold their unique fields. Say I have device type "Switch" and "Transformer". Both derived classes only…
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Are there any good resources/idioms for visually designing business applications?
I think we're all aware of what "your company's line-of-business software" looks like.
(source: glompix.com)
Are there any resources, rules of advice, or general tricks to visually taming applications like this? Our business's domain is pretty…
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"About..." page on iPhone
I'm asking all those who have apps in the Apple iPhone App Store. Do you have an "About..." window/page/view in your app, or do you rely on iTunes for providing the developer info to the customer? If the former, where's the button/link to that? Real…
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UML Drawing of Presentation Logic, Screen Navigation, Validation
How do you draw presentation logic, screen navigation and validation logic of controls in UML?
When a new screen is needed or existing screen is modified, I use MS Paint to get the new screen layout approved. I find myself in this situation of how…
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Master-Detail GUI in .net
This type of UIs are frequently displayed in various web-Sites and .net books.
Are these types of User-Interfaces acceptable and/or popular in commercial and/or customized Business Software?
Please note
(1) the use of Binding Navigator, and
(2)…
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UX Design for Disabled Controls w/ the Touch Interface
So we're re-designing a desktop application so that it's also usable with thye Touch Interface with Windows 7. We've consulted the UX guidelines.
For some part of the UI, there are toolbox icons that are disabled because of some arcane rules (the…
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Is there an IDE with a GUI designer for Perl?
Can anyone suggest me a easy to use Perl language IDE with GUI designing support for Ubuntu.
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How well can a MS Access form be themed?
In around 12 months I intend providing my users with a web-based business management system (our corporate infrastructure will take that long to be ready).
As a stepping stone, an MS Access solution is being developed.
I have a useable web-UI…
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Push to refresh on android as in gmail (and not pull to refresh like on iphone)
There have been many requests for a push to refresh widget or library on android, even if some people consider it's not such a good ui pattern (I must say I belong to this camp).
But what about "pull to refresh" or to be more precise : the mechanism…
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What XAML control should I use to keep all child elements within its borders in WPF?
I'm having a UI design issue, this is what I want the contents of my app window to shrink to fit the smallest dimension of the window.
Using the XAML below, when the window is too narrow the contents are shrunk to fit. Perfect. My problem is when…
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