Interface Design and UX Thread - How our App Looks

**gracehjs** · 01 June 2013, 03:51 PM

Actually, as we will be warnig people that fiddling with the registry can have unforeseen consequences, it seems appropriate.

QUOTE=pauland;477466]Personally, as an observer, I really dislike the red.

Red is really bold and associated with danger, so on something that can do no harm, the idea of using red to highlight options can have a subconscious message - do this with care/don't do this.[/QUOTE]

**gracehjs** · 01 June 2013, 03:52 PM

Yes, keep the ideas coming. Eric is going to start making mockups for you to see.

**gracehjs** · 01 June 2013, 03:56 PM

Also, we have decided to use WPF Windows Presentation Foundation ), which will give us the ability to implement a rich interface. This means that it will not work on Windows XP. I trust this is OK with everyone? If it isnt then we will have to go with a vanilla interface.

**pauland** · 01 June 2013, 04:26 PM

After all these years, perhaps it's time to let XP go. After all there is an existing registry editor out there, isn't there?

Seems a pity to stifle a program because a few people haven't moved with the times, especially since there are legacy registry editors in existence.

**angelize** · 01 June 2013, 06:55 PM

I don't think that you can come up with a colour combination that is going to please everyone, for instance I don't like Rik's dark combo with the flouresent green. I also think that a harmonious colour scheme is the way to go.

**jamesd** · 01 June 2013, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by angelize

I don't think that you can come up with a colour combination that is going to please everyone, for instance I don't like Rik's dark combo with the flouresent green. I also think that a harmonious colour scheme is the way to go.

I Don't see any fluorescent green in Rik's dark UI.

I like the type of UI that IObit use, Rik's is kind of similar

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**angelize** · 01 June 2013, 08:25 PM

Not the nice Dark UI but one he posted before that. I'm just playing with different colour combinations I don't have a .xar file for Rik's Dark UI so I am just using a quick mock up to show how the harmonious colours look together. Grace indicated that she prefered red in the logo so I settled on a nice shade of red and the rest of the harmonious colours are based off of that.

Here is another one