Interface Design and UX Thread - How our App Looks

[gracehjs]

The form I suggested as a starting point was just a basic form from C#. The way things work, you design a form with inputs and then code what happens for that input. In the case of the registry tool - all we are doing is setting different items in the registry. The Xara programme reads this to guide it. So, what we a designing is the method of interacting with a user to tell us to change a registry item. And yes, looking at XaReg or XaReg2 shows you what registry entries we will most likely be changing.

[mindseye]

Thank you for that..!

[Barbara B]

I offer this skin as a conversation/design starter.

Please feel free to adapt or evolve this design or say, "Rubbish - here's how it should look" (but don't say it too loud OK? ) and then submit your own design. There are many ways to skin Grace's standard form and it will be fun to see how this thread evolves with each new contribution.

The way I see my design working is that you click on the gear teeth (which are actually tabs) and then the center panel changes to display that tabs options.

The user can tell what tab they are on, by the large title at the top, which changes depending on which tab you've selected. The submit or close button could be at the bottom of the circle or a smaller gear could mesh with the larger gear and contain the OK Cancel stuff.

Instead of check boxes I've used On Off toggles.



I've also included the file.
Xart-UX-BBouton.web

[Gare]

Wow. This is what you did a 3 in the morning?

I'm impressed!

Moreover, I like it. It breaks from the mold and actually harkens back a little to the fun that the ArtRage and Anarchy designers used to design into the KPT stuff. I think this design deserves to be passed around and riffed upon.

Part of "Functional" is "Fun", right?

-g

[gracehjs]

Being a very lazy programmer, the first thing I thought was Ï like it", the second was "how on earth would I implement it!".

[Gare]

Whatever we can do to help, Grace, say it.

Because this design is really growing on me, and I'd like to take some time today to polish and mutate it a little.

Think of the general reaction when this think flies! It would be one of your crowned jewels as a programmer!

-g

[StevenWWinters]

I like concept and since XaRT is for a very cool graphics app it would be way cool if the UI for XaRT was likewise visually appealing.

I think the coders can focus on functionality at first while the artists develop presentation concepts. The two can marry up down the road as it's a work-in-progress anyway.

I had an idea of using a gear in the letters a and/or R in XaRT, but since I'm artistically and time challenged I'll leave it to others to consider...

I also like the checkmark in the X of XaRT logo/icon concept.

Fun stuff...