In my free time, I'm working on a risk analysis application. I have already finished the mathematical and simulation engines, but I'm stuck with the design of the user interface. I want my application to be as easy-to-use as possible for Excel users, but I don't want to make it an Excel add-in, because Excel takes ages to load add-ins. S...
Hi, I am starting out using MiGLayout for my GUI design, and one of the feature I would need is to show/hide certain components based on the state of other components. I was going to code this myself, when I noticed that one of the Component Constraints supported by MiGLayoutis hidemode. Does this do what I think it does? If so, how d...
In the application that I am working on, there is tabular data (for the record, it is a Java Swing app using JTables). In some cases the data is sortable by clicking on the column headers. What I want to know is what is a good way to indicate to the user if a given column is sortable or not? I have come up with the following possibiliti...
Hey everyone, I have a dillema where our client relations department has been brought in for advice on UI and I vehemently disagree with it...even though I don't consider myself a designer at all. While I have been vocal about my disagreement about it, I've been asked to point to design standards to prove that what I'm saying is correc...
Hello, Currently, HTML5's new input types, <input type="number"...> <input type="email"...> <input type="url"...> simply focus on any offending text-boxes with mismatching user input upon form submission. Problem: Focusing is fine. However it's a very subtle way of telling the user why the form is not submitting. Which of these is...