Who can recommend some UI tools?
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Paper, pencil and thought. This is not being flippant, no mater how good the code tool is, you must design properly first.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
Mister Big has it right again, but I would say there are two different (slightly overlapping) sides to UI-design. One is the the layout-conceptual-usability side. Where to put the "Execute"-button, what functions to hide under menues/sub-menues. Etc, Etc. Somthing for a talented/inclined programmer, or a usability expert. The other is the graphic-design part. What colour-schemes to use, how to make the the buttons look sweet and shiny. That is very much a job for an Art Director/Graphic Designer. And this does not answer the question at hand at all, but whatever...
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Paper, pencil and thought. This is not being flippant, no mater how good the code tool is, you must design properly first.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
A large whiteboard is my favourite.
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Paper, pencil and thought. This is not being flippant, no mater how good the code tool is, you must design properly first.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
I have to agree with this. I do most of my web design in raw HTML and CSS (why send 10k of code for 500 bytes of layout?), and a pencil, eraser and a few sheets of graph paper are all the UI tools I need. For app programming, I've found the Visual Studio IDE to be perfectly adequate.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Paper, pencil and thought.
I couldn't agree more. Nor, frankly, do I think most programmers have the temperament, skills, or training needed to design a UI.
Jon "I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars." ~ Stephen Hawking, Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
Have another 5, I need to send this to my project lead.... Functionality, layout even, not a problem, eye candy, get a DESIGNER. I am a great proponent of battleshit grey.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Have another 5, I need to send this to my project lead.... Functionality, layout even, not a problem, eye candy, get a DESIGNER. I am a great proponent of battleshit grey.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Nope, what you see is what I deliver.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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You must not have spent time in the Navy, of ANY country.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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In the Navy, and most other arms of the military, if there is a simple substitution that can change something into a curse, it invariably happens. If you live around that gray for a while, you either come to love it or hate it, or both
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Have another 5, I need to send this to my project lead.... Functionality, layout even, not a problem, eye candy, get a DESIGNER. I am a great proponent of battleshit grey.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
battleshit grey
Are you prior service? ----- If you want me to design a UI, I will be able to use it. Others, not so much. :sigh:
Opacity, the new Transparency.
No, my father was. He passed a disparaging comment in the early 90s when he saw the results of my UI design and it stuck with me ever since.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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No, my father was. He passed a disparaging comment in the early 90s when he saw the results of my UI design and it stuck with me ever since.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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In the Navy, and most other arms of the military, if there is a simple substitution that can change something into a curse, it invariably happens. If you live around that gray for a while, you either come to love it or hate it, or both
Opacity, the new Transparency.