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The majority of resources that I have for UI design all deal with the web world. There are a number of advantages there because of the dynamic nature of the presentation layer.
However, I would like to design better windows form programs. I want a professional flow to my applications. Right now they look pretty by using WPF, but events seem disjointed (i.e. almost unnatural progression) and I don't really know how to design a good (usability wise) interface. Does anyone blog about that sort of thing?
Try considering WPF as the technology to develop Windows application then you can use lot of vector graphics(XAML) and so lot more than what you can do with windows forms.
There is a great blog comparing both http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/wpf-vs-windows-forms/
You may also want to take a look at the "Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines" or UX Guide available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx or in PDF. Here's the goals as listed on the website:
Establish a high quality and consistency baseline for all Windows-based applications.
Answer your specific user experience questions.
Make your job easier!
http://windowsclient.net/ is a Microsoft site for windows forms.
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I'm looking for a solution (probably CMS or framework) to make a database and user friendly interface for data entry by regular users.
At our department we're doing a lot of data collection - 6 DBs, 2k records, ~100-200 fields. All of them are powered by in-house Rails application that's hard to maintain on this scale. So, I'm looking for a more tailored solution.
What is important:
Well-thought database design and data management solution (migrations, validation, etc)
Almost unlimited customisation (backend and frontend programming), especially an ability to make complex inputs
Great community to learn and contribute (open source)
What will be nice to have:
Python/Ruby/etc backend. Modern React (at least not Angular) frontend
PostgreSQL support
Plugins, integration with other services
Something I've found: Oracle APEX, MS Access, FileMaker (proprietary), nuBuilder (very limited). After all, I thought about rewriting our app using PostgREST and React or use Plone as a basis (but a bit afraid of ZODB). What do you think?
Any help and advices are appreciated, thx.
PostgreSQL + PostgREST + react-admin
Reactrb plus rails. Very simple to use 100% ruby see http://reactrb.org
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I know stuff like jQuery Mobile, which makes it a lot easier to handle the optimization for mobile devices/smartphones. I also came across several sites with articles about this topic, but I would love to have something more bullet-proof and up-to-date information about it.
Problem is that the mobile browser steadily change and there are huge differences, also there are many people with just a theory and no proper background to it. Are there any up-to-date and looked-after websites or resources I can rely on to optimize my website for mobile devices (in general) on a basis of good practice?
I found these sites helpful:
Google's Go Mo site offers useful resources & best
practices for building mobile-friendly sites.
WTF MobileWeb tracks anti-patterns (that you should avoid)
Mobile Web Best Practices
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I am not a designer by profession and don't really want to become one [not my cup of tea, I guess]. I want to gain some knowledge on graphics designing [mostly with XAML] so that I can at least work with Expression Design and Blend. Any book or video that can teach me some effects would be good.
What are you favorite resources to learn Expression Design and Expression Blend?
How can you learn to create effects like, shine on the button, etc?
Have a look at these courses and tutorials.
.Toolbox
They'll walk you thru various design scenarios and principles.
Just don't be afraid to try things out. Add lots of different layers on top of eachother with different gradients, a small line or curve here and there.
Designing is good when you combine your skills on word,symbols and images to create representation of ideas that creates visual comminucation and representation.
As I know Expression series has the ability to import other design tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.At least you dont need to draw in blend if you're already used them.
Check Microsoft's own Training videos here.
That's all I can find
Hope that makes you a designer :)
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I'm looking for a JavaScript library for my web application. The application is very data intensive and has rich form controls (almost windows like). AJAX will be used liberally. The development platform is ASP.Net (mostly ASP.Net MVC will be used).
I cannot pursue with ExtJs due to the price/license factor. I checked Qooxdoo but it is very windows-unfriendly. YIU fell short of my needs w.r.t. form controls it offers.
Other libraries like jQuery do not offer rich form controls. So I am looking recommendations for a library that satisfies most of following needs:
Rich UI controls
Solid API for AJAX handling
Employs good programming practices for scripting in frontend (preferably OO but not mandatory)
Free. Else has only development cost and not production
Windows friendly (or at least not unfriendly)
Not monolithic.
Should be independent (Not have development & production dependencies)
Theme'ing should be easy (preferably wrapped by the library)
I am not mentioning other basic needs (like browser compatibility). I hope any popular library will honor those.
What's wrong with the GPL version of ExtJS? It's free.
SmartClient offers LGPL licensing, and I think caters to most, if not all, of your requirements (I don't remember for sure if they provide a non-monolithic option - I think they do)
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I would like my Windows Forms .NET application to be a bit nicer, having fancy rounded windows corners, non-standard color set, pretty controls.
Though all this is possible to implement with custom ownerdraw, I'd like not to spend much time and take existing free implementation (if any).
Please recommend the choice of yours.
I don't know of any complete free library, but to improve the look or functionality of common .Net controls I'd look at the CodeProject site. There's lots of articles about customizing controls. For example, here's one about making round buttons.
You might need to do owner drawing, but assuming that the license for the code in that or other articles are suitable for your needs you might be able to re-use code without having to write much yourself and some of the articles contain class libraries that you might just be able to reference in your code.
If you want to give your app a Windows 7 look there's also the Windows API Code Pack for .Net
As far as I know, there is no way to do "themes" or "skinning" easily in WinForms. You will have to find/purchase custom controls (or control libraries) that do all of the rendering that you require or do as you mentioned and render your own controls.
If you migrate your application to WPF, you'll find a lot more support for themes and "skinning".
Cheers.